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Higher TaxaEublepharidae, Gekkota, Sauria, Squamata (lizards: geckos)
Subspecies 
Common Names 
SynonymColeonyx elegans nemoralis KLAUBER 1945: 195
Coleonyx elegans nemoralis — WERMUTH 1965: 18
Coleonyx elegans nemoralis — MEDICA et al. 1975
Coleonyx elegans nemoralis — RÖSLER 2000: 63
Coleonyx elegans nemoralis — CASTRO-FRANCO & BUSTOS-ZAGAL 2003
Coleonyx elegans nemoralis — MONTALBÁN et al. 2012
Coleonyx nemoralis — BUTLER et al. 2022 
DistributionSW Mexico (Colima, Michoacán, Guerrero, Morelos, Jalisco).

Type locality: Hacienda Paso del rio, Cólima, Mexico.  
Reproductionoviparous 
TypesHolotype: FMNH 100010 (was: EHT-HMS No. 10509); Hobart M. Smith collector. 
DiagnosisDiagnosis. This subspecies is a form having tubercular scales scattered on the dorsum, thus differing from variegatus, brevis, and fasciatus. From mitratus, nemoralis differs in having elongated scales forming the claw sheaths, which completely, or almost completely, hide the claws, whereas in the more southerly form the sheaths are shorter and the claws prominently in evidence. From elegans elegans, nemoralis varies in having the upper prenasals less often in contact, with a shorter juncture when there is a contact, and in having fewer tubercular scales, especially laterally. Also, the mental is more nearly triangular in nemoralis. (Klauber 1945: 196)


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CommentSee also: C. elegans.

Species groups: The five species of Coleonyx (described by 1970) form two distinct groups based on size and squamation. Coleonyx elegans (incl. nemoralis), C. mitratus, and C. reticulatus are large species, with enlarged tubercles scattered among the dorsal granules; C. brevis and C. variegatus are small, uniformly granular species (Klauber, 1945; Davis and Dixon, 1958). 
EtymologyNamed after Latin nemoralis, of/belonging to wood/forest, sylvan. [“...Gadow... states that this gecko is distincdy a forest form...”]. 
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