Barisia planifrons (BOCOURT, 1878)

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Higher Taxa	Anguidae (Gerrhonotinae), Diploglossa, Anguimorpha, Sauria, Squamata (lizards)
Subspecies
Common Names	E: Oaxaca Alligator Lizard S: Escorpión de Oaxaca
Synonym	Gerrhonotus (Barisia) planifrons BOCOURT 1878: 361 Gerrhonotus planifrons — BOULENGER 1885: 273 Barisia imbricata planifrons — TIHEN 1949: 246 Barisia imbricata planifrons — SMITH & TAYLOR 1950: 201 Gerrhonotus imbricatus planifrons — WERMUTH 1969: 19 Barisia imbricata planifrons — GUILLETTE & SMITH 1982 Barisia planifrons — SMITH et al. 2002 Barisia planifrons — MATA-SILVA et al. 2015 Barisia imbricata planifrons — ILLESCAS-APARICIO et al. 2016
Distribution	Mexico (Oaxaca), elevation 2130 - 3050 m Type locality: Oaxaca.
Reproduction
Types	Syntypes: MNHN-RA 1040 and MNHN-RA 2497 (2 syntypes)
Diagnosis
Comment	Distribution: Map: GUILLETTE & SMITH 1982: 24
Etymology	Named after Latin planus, level, flat + Latin frons, fore part of anything. [“...Tête à contour supérieur arqué, à plaques inter-naso-rostrales, frontale et interpariétale offrant une surface à peu près plate...”].
References	Bocourt, M. E. 1873. In: A. Duméril, M. F. Bocourt, and F. Mocquard, (1870-1909), Etudes sur les reptiles, p. i-xiv; In Recherches Zoologiques pour servir a l'Histoire de Ia Faune de l'Amérique Centrale et du Mexique. Mission Scientifique au Mexique et dans l'Amérique Ce Imprimerie Impériale, Paris, Livr. 2-15, pp. 33-860. - 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 Brygoo, E. R. 1987. Les types d'Anguid és (Reptiles, Sauriens) du Museum national d'Histoire naturelle Catalogue critique. Bulletin du Museum national d'Histoire naturelle, Paris, 4e ser., 9, sect. A (Zool., BioI. & Ecol. anim.), (2), supplement, 3-20. - get paper here Bryson Jr, R.W. & Riddle, B.R. 2011. Tracing the origins of widespread highland species: a case of Neogene diversification across the Mexican sierras in an endemic lizard. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, 105: 382–394 [2012, published online 2011] - get paper here Canseco-Márquez, L., & Gutiérrrez-Mayén, M.G. 2010. Anfibios y reptiles del Valle de Tehuacán-Cuicatlán. Comisión Nacional para el conocimiento y uso de la biodiversidad, México D.F., Mexico, 302 pp - get paper here Guillette, L.J. Jr. & SMith, H.M. 1982. A review of the Mexican lizard Barisia imbricata, and the description of a new subspecies. Trans. Kansas Acad. Sci. 85: 13-33 - get paper here Illescas-Aparicio, M., Clark-Tapia, R., González-Hernández, A., Vásquez-Díaz, Pedro R. & Aguirre-Hidalgo, V. 2016. Diversidad y riqueza herpetofaunística asociada al bosque de manejo forestal y áreas de cultivo, en Ixtlán de Juárez, Oaxaca. Acta Zoológica Mexicana (n.s.) 32(3): 359-369 - get paper here Mata-Silva, Vicente, Jerry D. Johnson, Larry David Wilson and Elí García-Padilla. 2015. The herpetofauna of Oaxaca, Mexico: composition, physiographic distribution, and conservation status. Mesoamerican Herpetology 2 (1): 6–62 - get paper here Smith, H.M. & Taylor,E.H. 1950. An annotated checklist and key to the reptiles of Mexico exclusive of the snakes. Bull. US Natl. Mus. 199: 1-253 - get paper here Smith, Hobart M., Theresa M. Burg and David Chiszar 2002. Evolutionary speciation in the alligator lizards of the genus Barisia. Bull. Maryland Herp. Soc. 38(1): 23-26 - 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
External links	National Center for Biotechnology Information Google images

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