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Abronia oaxacae (GÜNTHER, 1885)

IUCN Red List - Abronia oaxacae - Vulnerable, VU
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Higher TaxaAnguidae (Gerrhonotinae), Diploglossa, Anguimorpha, Sauria, Squamata (lizards)
Subspecies 
Common NamesE: Oaxacan Arboreal Alligator Lizard
S: Escorpión Arboricola de Oaxaca 
SynonymGerrhonotus oaxacae GÜNTHER 1885: 36
Gerrhonotus oaxacae — BOULENGER 1885: 268
Gerrhonotus oaxacae — GÜNTHER 1885: 36
Abronia oaxacae — TIHEN 1949: 591
Abronia oaxacae — SMITH & TAYLOR 1950: 197
Gerrhonotus oaxacae — WERMUTH 1969: 25
Abronia oaxacae — LINER 1994
Abronia oaxaca — LINER 2007
Abronia oaxacae — CANSECO-MÁRQUEZ & GUTIÉRREZ-MAYÉN 2010 
DistributionMexico (Oaxaca: Tehuantepec), elevation ~100 m.

Type locality: Oaxaca.  
Reproductionovoviviparous 
TypesSyntypes: BMNH 1871.11.24.6, 1871.11.24.7 
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CommentDistribution: Map in Bogert and Porter 1967: 16.

Extremely rare, known only from a few specimens. 
EtymologyNamed after the type locality. 
References
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  • Boulenger, G.A. 1885. Catalogue of the lizards in the British Museum (Natural History). Vol. 2, Second edition. London, xiii+497 pp. - get paper here
  • Campbell, Jonathan A.; Israel Solano-Zavaleta, Oscar Flores-Villela, Itzue W. Caviedes-Solis, and Darrel R. Frost 2016. A New Species of Abronia (Squamata: Anguidae) from the Sierra Madre del Sur of Oaxaca, Mexico. Journal of Herpetology 50 (1): 149-156. - get paper here
  • Canseco-Márquez, L., & Gutiérrrez-Mayén, M.G. 2010. Anfibios y reptiles del Valle de Tehuacán-Cuicatlán. Comisión Nacional para el conocimiento y uso de la biodiversidad, México D.F., Mexico, 302 pp - get paper here
  • Casas-Andreu, G., F.R. Méndez-De la Cruz and X. Aguilar-Miguel. 2004. Anfibios y Reptiles; pp. 375–390, in A.J.M. García-Mendoza, J. Ordoñez and M. Briones-Salas (ed.). Biodiversidad de Oaxaca. Instituto de Biología, UNAM-Fondo Oaxaqueño para la Conservación de la Naturaleza-World Wildlife Fund, México, D. F.
  • Eremchenko, V.; A. M. Panfilov & E. I. Tsarinenko 1992. Eremias multiocellata szczerbaki Jeriomtschenko et Panfilov ssp. nov. [in Russian, pp. 69-71
  • Gehlbach, Frederick R.;Collette, Bruce B. 1957. A contribution to the herpetofauna of the highlands of Oaxaca, Mexico. Herpetologica 13: 227-232 - get paper here
  • Good D; Schwenk K 1985. A new species of Abronia (Lacertilia: Anguidae) from Oaxaca, Mexico. Copeia 1985 (1): 135-141 - get paper here
  • Good, D.A. 1988. Phylogenetic relationships among gerrhonotine lizards; an analysis of external morphology. Univ. California Publ. Zool. 121: 139 pp. - get paper here
  • Günther, A. C. L. G. 1885. Reptilia and Batrachia. Biologia Centrali-Américana. Taylor, & Francis, London, 326 pp. [published in parts from 1885-1902; reprint by the SSAR 1987] - get paper here
  • Illescas-Aparicio, M., Clark-Tapia, R., González-Hernández, A., Vásquez-Díaz, Pedro R. & Aguirre-Hidalgo, V. 2016. Diversidad y riqueza herpetofaunística asociada al bosque de manejo forestal y áreas de cultivo, en Ixtlán de Juárez, Oaxaca. Acta Zoológica Mexicana (n.s.) 32(3): 359-369 - get paper here
  • Lemos-Espinal, J. A., & Smith, G. R. 2025. The diversity and conservation status of amphibians and reptiles from the Mexican biogeographic province of Sierra Madre del Sur. Nature Conservation, 58: 101-127 - get paper here
  • Liner, Ernest A. 2007. A CHECKLIST OF THE AMPHIBIANS AND REPTILES OF MEXICO. Louisiana State University Occasional Papers of the Museum of Natural Science 80: 1-60 - get paper here
  • Mata-Silva, Vicente, Jerry D. Johnson, Larry David Wilson and Elí García-Padilla. 2015. The herpetofauna of Oaxaca, Mexico: composition, physiographic distribution, and conservation status. Mesoamerican Herpetology 2 (1): 6–62 - get paper here
  • Oshima, M. 1916. Keys to the snakes of Formosa and the Ryu-Kyus. ([in Japanese] Trans. Nat. Hist. Soc. Formosa 6 (23): 1-12
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  • Tihen, J. A. 1949. The genera of gerrhonotine Iizards. American Midland Naturalist 41: 579-601 - get paper here
  • Tihen, J. A. 1954. Gerrhonotine lizards recently added to the American Museum collection, with further revisions of the genus Abronia. American Museum Novitates (1687): 1-26 - get paper here
 
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