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Abronia monticola (COPE, 1878)

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Higher TaxaAnguidae (Gerrhonotinae), Diploglossa, Anguimorpha, Sauria, Squamata (lizards)
Subspecies 
Common Names 
SynonymGerrhonotus monticolus COPE 1878: 97
Gerrhonotus monticola — BOULENGER 1885: 278
Gerrhonotus alfaroi STEJNEGER 1907: 505
Gerrhonotus monticola — SLEVIN 1942: 466
Barisia monticola — TIHEN 1949
Barisia monticola — TIHEN 1954: 11
Barisia monticola — TAYLOR 1956: 208
Gerrhonotus monticola — DUELLMAN 1966
Gerrhonotus monticolus — WERMUTH 1969: 22
Gerrhonotus monticola — PETERS & DONOSO-BARROS 1970: 125
Mesaspis monticola — VILLA et al. 1988
Mesaspis monticola — GOOD 1988: 85
Mesaspis monticola — KÖHLER 2000: 36
Mesaspis monticola — SOLANO-ZAVALETA et al. 2016
Abronia monticola — GUTIÉRREZ-RODRÍGUEZ et al. 2020 (by implication) 
DistributionCosta Rica, Panama, elevation 8000 to 11,000 feet

Type locality: Pico Blanco, Costa Rica.  
Reproductionovovivparous 
TypesHolotype: USNM 30591
Holotype: USNM 37342 [alfaroi] 
Diagnosis 
Comment 
EtymologyThe species name, ‘monticola’, is Latin for ‘inhabitant of the mountains’ (Latin “colere” = inhabiting). 
References
  • Arias, Erick and Gerardo Chaves. 2014. 140 years after William M. Gabb’s climb to Cerro Pico Blanco. Mesoamerican Herpetology 1 (1): 176-180 - get paper here
  • Boulenger, G.A. 1885. Catalogue of the lizards in the British Museum (Natural History). Vol. 2, Second edition. London, xiii+497 pp. - get paper here
  • Cope, E.D. 1878. Tenth contribution to the herpetology of Tropical America. Proc. Amer. Philos. Soc. 17: 85-98 [1877] - get paper here
  • Duellman, William E. 1966. The Central American herpetofauna: An ecological perspective. Copeia 1966 (4): 700-719 - get paper here
  • Fitch, H. S. 1973. A field study of Costa Rican lizards. Univ. Kansas Sci. Bull. 50:39-126. - get paper here
  • García-Padilla E, DeSantis DL, Rocha A, Mata-Silva V, Johnson JD, Wilson LD. 2020. Conserving the Mesoamerican herpetofauna: the most critical case of the priority level one endemic species. Amphibian & Reptile Conservation 14(2) [General Section]: 73–132 (e240) - get paper here
  • Good, D.A. 1987. A phylogenetic analysis of cranial osteology in the gerrhinotine lizards. Journal of Herpetology 21 (4): 285-297 - 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
  • Good, David A. 1989. Allozyme Variation and Phylogenetic Relationships among the Species of Mesaspis (Squamata: Anguidae). Herpetologica 45 (2): 227-232 - get paper here
  • Gutiérrez-Rodríguez, Jorge, Alejandro Zaldívar-Riverón, Israel Solano-Zavaleta, Jonathan A Campbell, Rubi N Meza-Lázaro, Oscar Flores-Villela, and Adrián Nieto-Montes de Oca. 2020. Phylogenomics of the Mesoamerican Alligator-Lizard Genera Abronia and Mesaspis (Anguidae: Gerrhonotinae) Reveals Multiple Independent Clades of Arboreal and Terrestrial Species. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 154: 106963 - get paper here
  • Köhler, G. 2000. Reptilien und Amphibien Mittelamerikas, Bd 1: Krokodile, Schildkröten, Echsen. Herpeton Verlag, Offenbach, 158 pp.
  • Langner, Ch. 2019. Ich komme Dir auf die Schliche! Verkanntes Schleichenvolk – die interessanten Echsen der Familie Anguidae. Reptilia (Münster) 24 (136): 16-27 - get paper here
  • Peters, James A. & Donoso-Barros, Roberto 1970. Catalogue of the Neotropical Squamata: Part II. Lizards and Amphisbaenians. Bull. US Natl. Mus. 297: 293 pp. - get paper here
  • Savage, J.M. 2002. The Amphibians and Reptiles of Costa Rica: A Herpetofauna Between Two Continents, Between Two Seas. University of Chicago Press, 934 pp. [review in Copeia 2003 (1): 205]
  • Slevin, J.R. 1942. Notes on a collection of reptiles from Boquete, Panama, with the description of a new species of Hydromorphus. Proc. Cal. Acad. Sci. 23: 463-480 - get paper here
  • Solano-Zavaleta, Israel; Adrián Nieto-Montes de Oca,Jonathan A. Campbell 2016. A New Species of Mesaspis (Squamata: Anguidae) from the High Cuchumatanes of Guatemala. Journal of Herpetology 50 (2): 327-336 - get paper here
  • Stejneger,L. 1907. A new Gerrhonotine lizard from Costa Rica. Proc. US Natl. Mus. 32: 505-506 - get paper here
  • Taylor, E. H. 1956. A review of the lizards of Costa Rica. Univ. Kansas Sci. Bull. 38 (part 1): 3-322 - get paper here
  • Tihen, J. A. 1954. Gerrhonotine lizards recently added to the American Museum collection, with further revisions of the genus Abronia. American Museum Novitates (1687): 1-26 - get paper here
  • Tihen, Joe A. 1949. A review of the lizard genus Barisia. Univ. Kansas Sci. Bull. 33 (3): 217-254 - get paper here
  • Walters, V. 1953. Notes on Reptiles and Amphibians from El Volcan de Chiriqui, Panamá. Copeia 1953 (2): 125-127 - get paper here
 
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