Abronia lythrochila SMITH & ALVAREZ DEL TORO, 1963

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Higher Taxa	Anguidae (Gerrhonotinae), Diploglossa, Anguimorpha, Sauria, Squamata (lizards)
Subspecies
Common Names	E: Red-lipped Arboreal Alligator Lizard S: Escorpión Arboricola de Labios Rojos
Synonym	Abronia lythrochila SMITH & ALVAREZ DEL TORO 1963 Gerrhonotus lythrochilus — WERMUTH 1969: 21 Abronia (Auriculabronia) lythrochila — CAMPBELL & FROST 1993 Abronia lythrochila — LINER 1994 Abronia lythrochila — KÖHLER 2000: 38 Abronia lythrochila — CLAUSE et al. 2020
Distribution	Mexico (C Chiapas), Guatemala (Torres et al. 2013), elevation 2000-3000 m Type locality: Mexico: Nachij, Carretera Tuxtla-Las Casas, Chiapas.
Reproduction	ovovivparous
Types	Holotype: INHS (= UIMNH) 51013, M. Alvarez del Toro; July 11, 1956.
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Etymology	Named after Greek lythros (λύθρον), defilement from blood, gore + Greek cheilos (χείλος), lip. [“...From the Greek lythron, gore, and cheilos, lip, in reference to the bloodred infralabials...”].
References	Augstenová, Barbora, Eleonora Pensabene, Lukáš Kratochvíl, and Michail Rovatsos. 2021. Cytogenetic Evidence for Sex Chromosomes and Karyotype Evolution in Anguimorphan Lizards. Cells 10, no. 7: 1612 - get paper here Bogert, Charles M. & Porter, Ann P. 1967. A new species of Abronia (Sauria, Anguidae) from the Sierra Madre del Sur of Oaxaca, Mexico. American Museum Novitates (2279): 1-21 - 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 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 Good, D.A. 1988. Phylogenetic relationships among gerrhonotine lizards; an analysis of external morphology. Univ. California Publ. Zool. 121: 139 pp. - get paper here Grünwald, Christoph Imre, Nadia Pérez-Rivera, Iván Trinidad Ahumada-Carrillo, Héctor Franz-Chávez and Brandon Thomas La Forest. 2016. New distributional records for the herpetofauna of Mexico. Herpetological Review 47 (1): 85-90 - get paper here Johnson, Jerry D.; Vicente Mata-Silva, Elí García Padilla, and Larry David Wilson 2015. The Herpetofauna of Chiapas, Mexico: composition, distribution, and conservation. Mesoamerican Herpetology 2 (3): 272–329. - 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. Langner, Christian 2014. Haltung und Nachzucht der Baumschleiche Abronia lythrochila. Terraria-Elaphe 2014 (1): 28-34 (2013) - get paper here Smith, H. M., & ALVAREZ DEL TORO, M. 1963. Notulae herpetologicae Chiapasiae IV. Herpetologica 19: 100-105. - get paper here Torres, Monica, Antonio Urbina, Carlos Vásquez-Almazán, Todd Pierson and Daniel Ariano-Sánchez 2013. Geographic Distribution: Abronia lythrochila (red-lipped arboreal alligator lizard). Herpetological Review 44 (4): 624 - get paper here
External links	IUCN Red List National Center for Biotechnology Information http://www.mexico-herps.com/sauria/abronia/abronia-lythrochila Google images

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