Aspidoscelis sackii (WIEGMANN, 1834)
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Higher Taxa | Teiidae, Teiinae, Gymnophthalmoidea, Sauria, Squamata (lizards) |
Subspecies | Aspidoscelis sackii sackii (WIEGMANN 1834) Aspidoscelis sackii bocourti (BOULENGER 1885) Aspidoscelis sackii gigas (DAVIS & SMITH 1952) |
Common Names | E: Sack’s Spotted Whiptail S: Campeche S: Cuiji Moteado Gigante [gigas] E: Giant Spotted Whiptail [gigas] |
Synonym | Cnemidophorus sackii WIEGMANN 1834: 28 Cnemidophorus mexicanus PETERS 1870: 62 Cnemidophorus costatus COPE 1878: 95 Cnemidophorus mexicanus balsas GADOW 1906: 363 Cnemidophorus communis australis GADOW 1906: 352 Cnemidophorus mexicanus typica GADOW 1906: 360 Cnemidophorus sexlineatus sackii — BURT 1931: 73 Cnemidophorus sackii sackii — SMITH 1949: 41 Cnemidophorus sackii sackii — SMITH & TAYLOR 1950: 180 Cnemidophorus sackii australis — SMITH & TAYLOR 1950: 181 Cnemidophorus sacki sacki — MASLIN & SECOY 1986 Cnemidophorus sackii — LINER 1994 Cnemidophorus sackiecki Aspidoscelis sacki — REEDER et al. 2002 Aspidoscelis sackii — MATA-SILVA et al. 2015 Aspidoscelis sackii bocourti (BOULENGER 1885) Cnemidophorus bocourti BOULENGER 1885: 367 Cnemidophorus communis bocourti — GADOW 1906: 356 Cnemidophorus communis copei — GADOW 1906: 350 Cnemidophorus sackii bocourti — SMITH 1946: 69 Cnemidophorus sackii bocourti — MERTENS 1952: 55 Cnemidophorus sexlineatus sackii — BOCOURT 1874: 276 Cnemidophorus sackii — SCHMIDT & STUART 1941: 244 Aspidoscelis sackii gigas (DAVIS & SMITH 1952) Cnemidophorus sackii gigas DAVIS & SMITH 1952 Cnemidophorus sacki gigas — MASLIN & SECOY 1986 Aspidoscelis sacki gigas — REEDER et al. 2002 Cnemidophorus sackii gigas — CASTRO-FRANCO & BUSTOS-ZAGAL 2003 Aspidoscelis sackii gigas — LINER & CASAS-ANDREU 2008 |
Distribution | Mexico (Michoacán, Morelos, Guerrero, Puebla, Chiapas, Oaxaca, México [HR 31: 184], Tamaulipas) australis: Foothills about the C Oaxacan highlands, excluding the Balsas Basin, in the upper headwaters of the Río Papaloapam and Río Tehuantepec, and near the Isthmus of Tehuantepec. Type locality: Not specified. Lagunas or Cuicatlán, Oaxaca. Restricted to Cuicatlán, Oaxaca by SMITH & TAYLOR 1950. balsas: Type locality: Mexico: Yautepec, Morelos; bocourti: Uplands from C Oaxaca through C Chiapas into C Guatemala, El Salvador; Type locality: “Mexico” and “California”. Restricted to Oaxaca, Oaxaca, by SMITH & TAYLOR 1950. gigas: Mexico (Morelos). mariarum: Tres Marías Island. Type locality: Tres Marías Island. sackii: Río Balsas Valley: Morelos, Guerrero, Puebla, Michoacán. Type locality: Mexico. Restricted to Cuernavaca, Morelos by SMITH & TAYLOR 1950. Further restricted to “Oaxaca, Oaxaca, Mexico” by DUELLMAN & ZWEIFEL 1962. |
Reproduction | oviparous |
Types | Holotype: ZMB 884 (sackii) Lectotype: BNH 1906.7.19.11 (australis; designated by SMITH & TAYLOR 1950) Syntypes: BMNH 1857.10.28.81 [bocourti] Syntypes: BMNH 1881.10.1.81-82, 86-88 [mariarum] Syntype: UIMNH 39955 (formerly CNHM 1350) [balsas] Holotype: TCWC 6804; female; J. R. Dixon; 19 Aug. 1950 [gigas] Lectotype: BMNH 1906.7.19.11; male. Designated by Smith and Taylor (1950:182) [australis] |
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Comment | Synonymy and subspecies partly after SMITH & TAYLOR 1950. They also synonymized Cnemidophorus motaguae SACKETT 1941 with Cnemidophorus sackii bocourti. Maslin & Secoy 1986 list Cnemidophorus communis australis GADOW 1906 as a synonym of sacki. Distribution: older papers report this species from Texas but this appears to represent other species. |
Etymology | Named after one of the German collectors, Count von Sack. |
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