Abronia smithi CAMPBELL & FROST, 1993

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Higher Taxa	Anguidae (Gerrhonotinae), Diploglossa, Anguimorpha, Sauria, Squamata (lizards)
Subspecies
Common Names	E: Smith's Arboreal Alligator Lizard S: Escorpión Arborícola de Smith
Synonym	Abronia (Auriculabronia) smithi CAMPBELL & FROST 1993 Abronia smithi — KÖHLER 2000: 39 Abronia smithi — WILSON et al. 2013 Abronia schmidtii — LANGNER 2019 (in error) Abronia smithi — CLAUSE et al. 2020
Distribution	Mexico (SE Chiapas), elevation 1800-2800 m Type locality: Southeast slope of Cerro El Triúnfo (sic), Sierra Madre de Chiapas Chiapas, Mexico, in cloud forests. This locality is about 13.1 Km airline NNE Mapastepec at 15° 40' N, 92° 48' W. Elevation: 2020 m
Reproduction	viviparous
Types	Holotype: UTA R-30202.
Diagnosis	Diagnosis: Campbell & Frost 1993: 32.
Comment
Etymology	Named after Hobart M. Smith (1912-2013), American herpetologist and one of the most prolific herpetologists of all time. See also Chiszar et al. 2004 for biographical notes.
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 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 - get paper here CHISZAR, DAVID; EDWIN MCCONKEY, AND MARGARET M. STEWART 2004. Historical perspectives: Hobart Muir Smith. Copeia 2004 (2): 418–424 - 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 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, 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 Wilson, Larry David; Vicente Mata-Silva, Jerry D. Johnson 2013. A conservation reassessment of the reptiles of Mexico based on the EVS measure. Amphibian & Reptile Conservation 7 (1): 1–47 - get paper here
External links	IUCN Red List National Center for Biotechnology Information http://www.greglasley.net/abroniasmithi.html http://www.eltriunfo.org/galeria.htm https://news.mongabay.com/2019/02/exit-the-dragons-mexico-tackles… Google images

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