Abronia anzuetoi CAMPBELL & FROST, 1993

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Higher Taxa	Anguidae (Gerrhonotinae), Diploglossa, Anguimorpha, Sauria, Squamata (lizards)
Subspecies
Common Names	E: Anzuetoi Arboreal Alligator Lizard
Synonym	Abronia (Auriculabronia) anzuetoi CAMPBELL & FROST 1993 Abronia anzuetoi — KÖHLER 2000: 38
Distribution	SC Guatemala, elevation 1219-2286 m Type locality: “in cloud forest at 1219 m (4000 feet) elevation on the south slope of Volcán de Agua, Finca Rosario Vista Hermosa, Department of Escuintla, Guatemala. This site is about 12 km (airline) NNE Escuintla at approximately 14° 25' N, 90° 44' W." Habitat: cloudforest
Reproduction	viviparous
Types	Holotype: UMMZ 129013, University of Michigan Museum of Zoology
Diagnosis	Diagnosis: Campbell & Frost 1993: 23
Comment	Abundance: only known from its original description (Meiri et al. 2017).
Etymology	Named after Roderico Anzueto, Guatemalan naturalist who collected the holotype.
References	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; 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 Campbell, Jonathan A., Mahmood Sasa, Manuel Acevedo and Joseph R. Mendelson, III. 1998. A new species of Abronia (Squamata: Anguidae) from the High Cuchumatanes of Guatemala. Herpetologica 54 (2): 221-234. - 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. 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
External links	IUCN Red List - Abronia anzuetoi - Vulnerable, VU National Center for Biotechnology Information Google images

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