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Abronia frosti CAMPBELL, SASA, ACEVEDO & MENDELSON, 1998

IUCN Red List - Abronia frosti - Critically Endangered, CR
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Higher TaxaAnguidae (Gerrhonotinae), Diploglossa, Anguimorpha, Sauria, Squamata (lizards)
Subspecies 
Common NamesE: Frost’s Arboreal Alligator Lizard 
SynonymAbronia frosti CAMPBELL, SASA, ACEVEDO & MENDELSON 1998
Abronia frosti — KÖHLER 2000: 38
Abronia frosti — ARIANO-SÁNCHEZ et al. 2011
Abronia frosti — CLAUSE et al. 2020 
DistributionNW Guatemala (Sierra de los Cuchumatanes), elevation 2835 m.

Type locality: Along road to Patalcal, 5.9 km (by road) NW intersection of Guatemala road 9N (near San Mateo Ixtatán), 2835 m.  
Reproductionovovivparous 
TypesHolotype: UTA R-41131 
Diagnosis 
CommentAbronia frosti is the only Abronia known from Guatemala that lacks protuberant supra-auricular spines.

Abundance: only known from the type locality (Meiri et al. 2017). This is one of the species called 'lost' and 'rediscovered' by Lindken et al. 2024. 
EtymologyNmed after Darrel Frost, American herpetologist and former curator at the American Musuem of Natural History in New York. 
References
  • Ariano-Sánchez, Christian & Melendez, Lester 2014. Baumschleichen der Gattung Abronia in Guatemala. Terraria-Elaphe 2014 (3): 44-48 - get paper here
  • Ariano-Sánchez, D., M. Torres-Almazán y A. Urbina-Aguilar. 2011. Rediscovery of Abronia frosti (Sauria: Anguidae) from a cloud forest in Cuchumatanes highlands in northwestern Guatemala: Habitat characterization and conservation status. Herpetological Review 42 (2): 196-198 - 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, 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
  • 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
  • Köhler, G. 2000. Reptilien und Amphibien Mittelamerikas, Bd 1: Krokodile, Schildkröten, Echsen. Herpeton Verlag, Offenbach, 158 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
  • Pianka, Eric R. 2012. Can humans share spaceship earth? Amphibian & Reptile Conservation 6 (1): 1-24 - get paper here
 
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