Gambelia sila (STEJNEGER, 1890)

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Higher Taxa	Crotaphytidae, Iguania, Sauria (lizards)
Subspecies
Common Names	Bluntnose Leopard Lizard, San Joaquin Leopard Lizard
Synonym	Crotaphytus silus STEJNEGER 1890: 105 Gambelia wislizenii silus — SMITH 1946: 164 Crotaphytus wislizeni silus — SCHMIDT 1953: 117 Gambelia silus — STEBBINS 1985: 124 Gambelia sila — FROST & COLINS 1988: 73 Gambelia sila — CROTHER 2000 Gambelia sila — COLLINS & TAGGART 2009
Distribution	USA (C California: San Joaquin Valley and the surrounding foothills, the Carrizo Plains south over the Temblor and Caliente Ranges into the Middle Cuyama Valley). Type locality: "Fresno, Cal." Map legend: - Region according to the TDWG standard, not a precise distribution map. NOTE: TDWG regions are generated automatically from the text in the distribution field and this does not always work properly. We are working on it.
Types	Holotype: U.S. Natl. Mus. No. 11709A
Comment
References	Boundy, Jeff; Frank T. Burbrink, Jonathan A. Campbell, Brian I. Crother, Kevin de Queiroz, Darrel R. 2012. Standard Common and Current Scientific Names for North American Amphibians, Turtles, Reptiles, and Crocodilians, Seventh Edition. SSAR, 101 pp. Collins, J.T. and <br />T. W. Taggart 2009. Standard Common and Current Scientific Names for North American Amphibians, Turtles, Reptiles, and Crocodilians, Sixth Edition. Center for North American Herpetology, 48 pp. Frost, D. R.;Collins, J. T. 1988. Nomenclatural notes on reptiles of the United States Herpetological Review 19 (4): 73-74 Jennings M R. 1995. Gambelia sila. Catalogue of American Amphibians and Reptiles (612): 1-4. - get paper here McGuire, J. A. 1996. Phylogenetic systematics of crotaphytid lizards (Reptilia: Iguania: Crotaphytidae). Bulletin of Carnegie Museum of Natural History 32: 1-142 Schmidt, Karl P. 1953. A Checklist of North American Amphibians and Reptiles. 6th ed. American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists, Chicago, 280 pp. Smith, Hobart M. 1946. Handbook of Lizards: Lizards of the United States and of Canada. Comstock, Ithaca, NY, xxii + 557 pp. Stebbins,R.C. 1985. A Field Guide to Western Reptiles and Amphibians, 2nd ed. Houghton Mifflin, Boston Stejneger, L. 1890. Results of a biological survey of the San Francisco Mountain region and Desert of the Little Colorado, Arizona. Part V. Annotated list of reptiles and batrachians collected by Dr. C. Hart Merriam and Vernon Bailey on the San Francisco Mountain Platea North American Fauna, No. 3: 103-118 Stejneger,L.H. 1893. Annotated list of the reptiles and batrachians collected by the Death Valley Expedition in 1891, with descriptions of new species. North American Fauna, No. 7: 159-228 (+ 14 plates + 4 maps) - get paper here
External links	IUCN Red List - Gambelia sila - Endangered, EN http://www.wildherps.com/species/G.sila.html Google images

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