Elgaria panamintina (STEBBINS, 1958)

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Higher Taxa	Anguidae (Gerrhonotinae), Diploglossa, Anguimorpha, Sauria, Squamata (lizards)
Subspecies
Common Names	E: Panamint Alligator Lizard
Synonym	Gerrhonotus panamintinus STEBBINS 1958: 2 Gerrhonotus panamintinus — WERMUTH 1969: 26 Gerrhonotus panamintinus — STEBBINS 1985: 165 Elgaria panamintina — GOOD 1988: 76 Elgaria panamintina — GOOD 1988: 154 Elgaria panamintina — CROTHER 2000 Elgaria panamintina — COLLINS & TAGGART 2009 Elgaria panamintina — THOMSON et al. 2016: 202 Elgaria panamintina — HANSEN & SHEDD 2025
Distribution	USA (E California) Type locality: Surprise Canyon, at an elevation of 4500 feet, on the west side of the Panamint Mountains, Inyo County, California.
Reproduction	oviparous
Types	Holotype: MVZ 65410, collected by James McDonald, Jr., October 23,1954.
Diagnosis	DIAGNOSIS: Size of adults large, probably commonly over 100 mm in snout to vent length; transverse rows of dorsal scales, 44 to 47; number of keeled longitudinal rows of dorsal scales,10 or 12; scales of temporal region and forelimbs smooth; complete crossbands on body, exclusive of tail, eight or nine; juveniles contrastingly marked with light and dark cross bands; ventral surfaces whitish, with gray spots at middle or sides of scales, forming iregularly arranged blotches; iris pale yellow (Stebbins 1958). Unfortunately we had to temporarily remove additional information as this was scraped by multiple AI companies who sell that data to their customers. These details, e.g. detailed descriptions or comparisons (about 3679 characters) are available for collaborators and contributors. Please contact us for details.
Comment	Distribution: see map in Leavitt et al. 2017: Fig. 1, Thomson et al. 2016: 203.
Etymology	Named after the type locality.
References	Banta B H; Mahrdt C R; Beaman K R 1996. Elgaria panamintina. Catalogue of American Amphibians and Reptiles 629: 1-4 - get paper here Collins, J.T. and T. W. Taggart 2009. Standard Common and Current Scientific Names for North American Amphibians, Turtles, Reptiles, and Crocodilians, Sixth Edition. Center for North American Herpetology, 48 pp. 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, D.A. 1988. Allozyme Variation and Phylogenetic Relationships among the Species of Elgaria (Squamata: Anguidae) Herpetologica 44 (2): 154-162. - get paper here Hansen, Robert and Jackson D. Shedd 2025. California Amphibians and Reptiles. Princeton University Press, 528 pp., ISBN<br />9780691249087 (ebook) - get paper here Jones, L.L. & Lovich, R.E. 2009. Lizards of the American Southwest. A photographic field guide. Rio Nuevo Publishers, Tucson, AZ, 568 pp. [review in Reptilia 86: 84] - get paper here Leavitt, D.H., Marion, A.B., Hollingsworth, B.D., Reeder, T.W. 2017. Multilocus phylogeny of alligator lizards (Elgaria, Anguidae): Testing mtDNA introgression as the source of discordant molecular phylogenetic hypotheses. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution - get paper here Parker, J. M. and S. Brito 2013. Reptiles and Amphibians of the Mojave Desert: A Field Guide. Snell Press, 184 pp. [ISBN 9780985577117] Pilliod, D., Jeffries, M., Arkle, R. and Olson, D. 2024. Climate Futures for Lizards and Snakes in Western North America May Result in New Species Management Issues. Ecol Evol, 14: e70379 - get paper here Stebbins,R.C. 1958. A new alligator lizard from the Panamint Mountains, Inyo County, California. American Museum Novitates (1883): 2 - get paper here Stebbins,R.C. 1985. A Field Guide to Western Reptiles and Amphibians, 2nd ed. Houghton Mifflin, Boston Thomson, Robert C.; Amber N. Wright & H. Bradley Shaffer 2016. California Amphibian and Reptile Species of Special Concern. University of California Press - get paper here Toffelmier, Erin Maurine 2019. Landscape and Conservation Genetics of Amphibians and Reptiles in California. PhD thesis, UCLA - get paper here
External links	IUCN Red List National Center for Biotechnology Information http://cluster4.biosci.utexas.edu/deathvalley/elgaria/panamint.htm http://www.enature.com/fieldguide/showSpeciesSH.asp?curGroupID=7&shapeID… Google images

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