Aspidoscelis communis (COPE, 1878)
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Higher Taxa | Teiidae, Teiinae, Gymnophthalmoidea, Sauria, Squamata (lizards) |
Subspecies | Aspidoscelis communis mariarum (GÜNTHER 1885) Aspidoscelis communis communis (COPE 1878) |
Common Names | E: Colima Giant Whiptail S: Moteado |
Synonym | Cnemidophorus communis COPE 1878: 95 Cnemidophorus communis occidentalis GADOW 1906: 339 Cnemidophorus communis copei GADOW 1906: 346 Cnemidophorus sackii communis — SMITH & TAYLOR 1950: 182 Cnemidophorus sackii communis — SMITH & BURGER 1950 Cnemidophorus sacki communis — LEWIS 1956 Cnemidophorus sackii occidentalis — ZWEIFEL 1959: 81 Cnemidophorus communis — LINER 1994 Aspidoscelis communis — REEDER et al. 2002 Aspidoscelis communis — LINER & CASAS-ANDREU 2008 Aspidoscelis communis mariarum (GÜNTHER 1885) Cnemidophorus mariarum GÜNTHER 1885: 28 Cnemidophorus gularis mariarum — COPE 1892: 46 Cnemidophorus sackii mariarum — SMITH & TAYLOR 1950: 183 Cnemidophorus communis mariarum — ZWEIFEL 1959: 79 Cnemidophorus communis mariarum — DUELLMAN & ZWEIFEL 1962 Cnemidophorus communis mariarum — MASLIN & SECOY 1986 Aspidoscelis communis mariarum — REEDER et al. 2002 Aspidoscelis communis mariarum — LINER & CASAS-ANDREU 2008 Aspidoscelis communis communis (COPE 1878) Cnemidophorus communis COPE 1878 Cnemidophorus communis communis — ZWEIFEL 1959: 74 Cnemidophorus communis communis — MASLIN & SECOY 1986 Aspidoscelis communis communis — REEDER et al. 2002 Aspidoscelis communis communis — LINER & CASAS-ANDREU 2008 |
Distribution | Mexico (central plateau of Mexico, from Chihuahua southward; Pacific coast from the Balsas basin northward to S Sinaloa. Recorded from (?) Sonora, Chihuahua, Tamaulipas, Zacatecas, Hidalgo, Aguascalientes ?, Jalisco, Sinaloa, Nayarit (incl. Isabel Island), Colima, Michoacán, Distrito Federal, Veracruz, Morelos, Puebla, Guerrero). mariarum: Mexico (Tres Matias group, Nayarit); Type locality: Mexico, Nayarit, Tres Marias Islands. Type locality: not definitely stated: Colima, Guadalajara, Córdoba, Cobán (Guatemala) or San Antonio (Texas); restricted to Colima, Colima by SMITH & TAYLOR 1950. |
Reproduction | oviparous |
Types | Lectotype: USNM 31542 (designated by ZWEIFEL 1959: 74) Holotype: lost (fide SMITH & TAYLOR 1950), but later rediscovered in USNM Syntypes: BMNH 1881.10.1.81, 1881.10.1.82, 1881.10.1.1.86-1881.10.1.88 [mariarum] Holotype: BMNH 1892.2.8.33 [occidentalis] |
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Comment | Synonymy after SMITH & TAYLOR 1950. Distribution: not listed for Querétaro by DIXON & LEMOS-ESPINAL 2010. Not listed for Aguascalientes by VÁSQUEZ-DIAZ & QUINTERO-DIAZ 2005. Not listed for San Luis Potosí by Lemos-Espinal & Dixon 2013. Not in Nuevo León fide LEMOS-ESPINAL et al. 2016. Not in Coahuila fide LEMOS-ESPINAL et al. 2016. Not in Puebla fide Woolrich-Piña 2018. Not listed for San Luis Potosí by Lemos-Espinal et al. 2018 (checklist SLP). Not in Durango fide Lemos-Espinal (2018). Not in Guanajuato fide Leyte-Manrique et al. 2022. |
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