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Aspidoscelis franciscensis (VAN DENBURGH & SLEVIN, 1921)

IUCN Red List - Aspidoscelis franciscensis - Least Concern, LC
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Higher TaxaTeiidae, Teiinae, Gymnophthalmoidea, Sauria, Squamata (lizards)
Subspecies 
Common NamesE: San Francisco Island Whiptail
G: San Francisco Rennechse
S: Huico de San Francisco 
SynonymVerticaria franciscensis VAN DENBURGH & SLEVIN 1921: 397
Cnemidophorus hyperythrus franciscensis — MASLIN & SECOY 1986
Cnemidophorus franciscensis — GRISMER 1999
Aspidoscelis franciscensis — LINER & CASAS-ANDREU 2008
Aspidoscelis franciscensis — JONES & LOVICH 2009
Aspidoscelis franciscensis — TAYLOR & WALKER 2014
Aspidoscelis franciscensis — JOHNSON et al. 2017 
DistributionMexico (Baja California, San Francisco Island)

Type locality: San Francisco Island, Gulf of California  
Reproductionoviparous 
TypesHolotype: CAS 50513 
DiagnosisDiagnosis. A single middorsal line, forked anteriorly for a distance of two to eight millimeters, usually forked or broadened posteriorly. Supraoculars normally three. Scales of collar very rarely largest at its edge. Second supraocular usually in contact with frontal. No red on back of body and usually none on sides. Blue below, without orange. (Van Denburgh & Slevin 1921) 
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References
  • Grismer, L. Lee 1999. Phylogeny, taxonomy, and biogeography of Cnemidophorus hyperythrus and C. ceralbensis (Squamata: Teiidae) in Baja California, México. Herpetologica 55 (1): 28-42 - get paper here
  • Johnson, J. D., L. D. Wilson, V. Mata-Silva, E. García-Padilla, and D. L. DeSantis. 2017. The endemic herpetofauna of Mexico: organisms of global significance in severe peril. Mesoamerican Herpetology 4 (3): 544–620 - get paper here
  • Jones, L.L. & Lovich, R.E. 2009. Lizards of the American Southwest. A photographic field guide. Rio Nuevo Publishers, Tucson, AZ, 568 pp. [review in Reptilia 86: 84] - get paper here
  • Liner, Ernest A., and Gustavo Casas-Andreu. 2008. Standard Spanish, English and Scientific Names of the Amphibians and Reptiles of Mexico. Herpetological Circular 38: 167 p.
  • Maslin, T. & Secoy, D.M. 1986. A checklist of the lizard genus Cnemidophorus (Teiidae). Contr. Zool. Univ. Colorado Mus. 1: 1-60
  • Peralta-García A, Valdez-Villavicencio JH, Fucsko LA, Hollingsworth BD, Johnson JD, Mata-Silva V, Rocha A, DeSantis DL, Porras LW, and Wilson LD. 2023. The herpetofauna of the Baja California Peninsula and its adjacent islands, Mexico: composition, distribution, and conservation status. Amphibian & Reptile Conservation 17(1&2): 57–142
  • Taylor, Harry L. and James M. Walker 2014. Pan-Peninsular pattern of morphological variation in Aspidoscelis hyperythra (Squamata: Teiidae), Baja California, Mexico. Southwestern Naturalist Jun 2014, Vol. 59, No. 2: 221-227. - get paper here
  • Taylor, Harry L. and James M. Walker 2014. Pattern of Differential Divergence Among Five Insular Species of the Aspidoscelis hyperythra Complex (Squamata: Teiidae), Baja California Sur, México. Journal of Herpetology Sep 2014, Vol. 48, No. 3: 355-362 - get paper here
  • Van Denburgh, J.; Slevin, J. R. 1921. Preliminary diagnoses of more new species of reptiles from islands in the gulf of California, Mexico. Proc. Cal. Acad. Sci. (4) 11 (17): 395-398 - get paper here
 
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