Anniella stebbinsi PAPENFUSS & PARHAM, 2013
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Anniella stebbinsi
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| Higher Taxa | Anguidae (Anniellinae), Diploglossa, Anguimorpha, Sauria, Squamata (lizards) |
| Subspecies | |
| Common Names | E: Southern California Legless Lizard |
| Synonym | Anniella stebbinsi PAPENFUSS & PARHAM 2013 Anniella pulchra lineage E — PARHAM & PAPENFUSS 2009 Anniella stebbinsi — HANSEN & SHEDD 2025 |
| Distribution | USA (S California), Mexico (N Baja California) Type locality: 33.9500°N, 118.4415°W (24 m elevation; Figs. 1, 4), El Segundo Dunes, Los Angeles International Airport, Los Angeles County, California, USA. |
| Reproduction | ovoviviparous |
| Types | Holotype: MVZ 267246, collected on April 20, 2010, by Theodore J. Papenfuss. Paratypes. MVZ 267247, a subadult male collected with the holotype; MVZ 250558 (Fig. 3), a subadult male from 34.0042°N, 118.8100°W (5 m elev.), Point Dume, Los Angeles County, California, U.S.A., col- lected on November 24, 2005, by Theodore J. Papenfuss. MVZ 267248 (Fig. 3), from 33.9015°N, 116.7447°W (470 m elev.), 4.0 km SE (airline) of Cabazon, Riverside County, California, U.S.A., collected on March 19, 2005, by Theodore J. Papenfuss. Figure numbers refer to PAPENFUSS & PARHAM 2013. |
| Diagnosis | Diagnosis: Distinguished by its yellow ventral coloration from A. grinnelli, which has a purple (grayish-red) ventral coloration and from A. alexanderae, which has a light gray ventral coloration. Distinguished from A. pulchra which also has a yellow ventral coloration by a somatic chromosome number of 2n = 20 rather than 2n = 22 (Bezy et al., 1977). Distinguished from A. campi, which also has a yellow ventral coloration by a single dark lateral stripe on each side rather than a double lateral stripe. Some specimens of A. stebbinsi have a double lateral stripe, but it is never continuous or exceeds 50% of the combined body and tail length, whereas in A. campi it is continuous and extends to the tip of the tail. Anniella stebbinsi shows a maximum mitochondrial sequence divergence (for ND2, see Materials and Methods) from A. pulchra of 8.7%, from A. grinnelli of 6.4%, from A. alexanderae of 4.9%, and from A. campi of 4.3%. |
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