Abronia frosti CAMPBELL, SASA, ACEVEDO & MENDELSON, 1998

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Higher Taxa	Anguidae (Gerrhonotinae), Diploglossa, Anguimorpha, Sauria, Squamata (lizards)
Subspecies
Common Names	E: Frost’s Arboreal Alligator Lizard
Synonym	Abronia frosti CAMPBELL, SASA, ACEVEDO & MENDELSON 1998 Abronia frosti — KÖHLER 2000: 38 Abronia frosti — ARIANO-SÁNCHEZ et al. 2011 Abronia frosti — CLAUSE et al. 2020
Distribution	NW 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.
Reproduction	ovovivparous
Types	Holotype: UTA R-41131
Diagnosis
Comment	Abronia 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).
Etymology	Nmed 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
External links	IUCN Red List National Center for Biotechnology Information http://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/27/science/an-amphibians-best-friend.html?… http://www.seh-herpetology.org/images/atlas/pdf/squamata/abrmar.pdf Google images

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