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Abronia ornelasi CAMPBELL, 1984

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Higher TaxaAnguidae (Gerrhonotinae), Diploglossa, Anguimorpha, Sauria, Squamata (lizards)
Subspecies 
Common NamesS: Escorpión Arboricola de Ornelas
E: Ornelas’s Arboreal Alligator Lizard, Cerro Baul Alligator Lizard 
SynonymAbronia ornelasi CAMPBELL 1984: 373
Abronia (Abaculabronia) ornelasi — CAMPBELL & FROST 1993
Abronia ornelasi — LINER 1994
Abronia ornelasi — KÖHLER 2000: 39
Abronia ornelasi — MATA-SILVA et al. 2015
Abronia ornelasi — CLAUSE et al. 2020 
DistributionMexico (E Oaxaca), elevation 1500-1600 m

Type locality: Cerro Baul, Oaxaca, Mexico; cloud forest at an elevation of about 1600 m.  
Reproductionovovivparous 
TypesHolotype: UTA R-6641, an adult male, University of Texas at Arlington Collection of Vertebrates. Original number JAC 3103, collected 25 July 1977 by Julio Ornelas Martinez. 
DiagnosisDiagnosis: The species with which A. ornelasi may be most easily confused is A. reidi (character states in parentheses) from the Sierra de las Tuxtlas in southern Veracruz, but it differs from the latter species by having a frontonasal that contacts the frontal (prefrontals in contact medially), four anterior temporals (rather than three), a parietal that does not contact the median supraoculars (upper primary temporal not in contact with frontoparietal), and fewer transverse rows of dorsal scales (30-33 versus 34-36). The salient features that distinguish species of Abronia inhabiting the southeastern Oaxacan highlands and the Sierra de los Tuxtlas are presented in Table 1 (Campbell 1984).


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CommentDistribution: The type locality is in the vicinity of Colonia Rodulfo Figueroa, in the Atlantic drainage of the Rio Mono Blanco, 19 km NW Rizo de Oro, Chiapas.

Abundance: only known from the type locality (Meiri et al. 2017). 
EtymologyNamed after Julio Ornelas Martinez, a friend and companion of J. Campbell. 
References
  • Aguilar-López JL, Luría-Manzano R, Pineda E, Canseco-Márquez L 2021. Selva Zoque, Mexico: an important Mesoamerican tropical region for reptile species diversity and conservation. ZooKeys 1054: 127-153 - get paper here
  • Beolens, Bo; Michael Watkins, and Michael Grayson 2011. The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, USA - get paper here
  • Campbell J A 1984. A new species of Abronia (Sauria: Anguidae) with comments on the herpetogeography of the highlands of southern Mexico. Herpetologica 40 (4): 373-381 - get paper here
  • Campbell J A; Frost D R 1993. Anguid lizards of the genus Abronia: revisionary notes, descriptions of four new species, a phylogenetic analysis, and key. Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist. 216: 1-121 - 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.
  • Clause, A. G., Luna-Reyes, R. & Nieto-Montes De Oca, A. 2020. A New Species of Abronia (Squamata: Anguidae) from a Protected Area in Chiapas, Mexico. Herpetologica 76 (3): 330-343 - get paper here
  • García-Padilla, E., Mata-Silva, V., Villalobos-Juárez, I., López-Esquivel, E. A., Lavariega, M. C., Rocha, A., DeSantis, D. L., Melgar-Martínez, A. I., Johnson, J. D., Fucsko, L. A., Lazcano, D., & Wilson, L. D. 2022. Anfibios y reptiles de la región de los Chimalapas, Istmo de Tehuantepec, Oaxaca, México:: composición, categorización distribucional, estado de conservación y significado para la biodiversidad. Biología Y Sociedad, 5(10), 37–76 - 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
  • Köhler, G. 2000. Reptilien und Amphibien Mittelamerikas, Bd 1: Krokodile, Schildkröten, Echsen. Herpeton Verlag, Offenbach, 158 pp.
  • Köhler, G. 2008. Reptiles of Central America. 2nd Ed. Herpeton-Verlag, 400 pp.
  • 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
  • Meiri, Shai; Aaron M. Bauer, Allen Allison, Fernando Castro-Herrera, Laurent Chirio, Guarino Colli, Indraneil Das, Tiffany M. Doan, Frank Glaw, Lee L. Grismer, Marinus Hoogmoed, Fred Kraus, Matthew LeBreton, Danny Meirte, Zoltán T. Nagy, Cristiano d 2017. Extinct, obscure or imaginary: the lizard species with the smallest ranges. Diversity and Distributions - get paper here
 
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