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Higher TaxaAnguidae (Gerrhonotinae), Diploglossa, Anguimorpha, Sauria, Squamata (lizards)
SubspeciesElgaria kingii kingii GRAY 1838
Elgaria kingii nobilis BAIRD & GIRARD 1852
Elgaria kingii ferruginea (WEBB 1962) 
Common NamesE: Madrean Alligator Lizard
E: Arizona Alligator Lizard [nobilis]
S: Lagartija Lagarto de Montaña 
SynonymElgaria kingii GRAY 1838: 390
Gerrhonotus kingii — O’SHAUGHNESSY 1873: 46
Gerrhonotus multifasciatus DUMÉRIL & BIBRON 1839: 401
Gerrhonotus kingii — BOCOURT 1878: 339
Gerrhonotus kingii — BOULENGER 1885: 274
Gerrhonotus kingii — FITCH 1938
Elgaria kingii kingii — TIHEN 1948: 299
Elgaria kingii kingii — SMITH & TAYLOR 1950: 205
Gerrhonotus kingii — WERMUTH 1969: 19
Gerrhonotus kingii kingii — VAN DEVENDER & LOWE 1977
Gerrhonotus kingii — STEBBINS 1985: 166
Elgaria kingii — GOOD 1988: 75
Elgaria kingii — LINER 1994
Elgaria usufa SMITH, LEMOS-ESPINAL, CHISZAR & INGRASCI 2003
Elgaria kingii — CORTÉS-VÁZQUEZ et al. 2022

Elgaria kingii ferruginea (WEBB 1962)
Gerrhonotus kingii ferrugineus WEBB 1962: 73
Gerrhonotus kingii ferrugineus — WERMUTH 1969: 19
Gerrhonotus kingii ferrugineus — HARDY 1969: 150
Elgaria kingii ferruginea — WEBB 1984
Gerrhonotus kingii ferrugineus — TANNER 1987
Elgaria kingii ferrea — BRENNAN in JONES & LOVICH 2009: 483 (in error)

Elgaria kingii nobilis BAIRD & GIRARD 1852
Elgaria nobilis BAIRD & GIRARD 1852: 129
Gerrhonotus nobilis — BAIRD 1859: 11
Gerrhonotus nobilis — O’SHAUGHNESSY 1873: 46
Elgaria kingii nobilis — TIHEN 1949: 596
Gerrhonotus kingii — SMITH 1946: 452
Elgaria kingii nobilis — SMITH & TAYLOR 1950: 206
Gerrhonotus kingii nobilis — WERMUTH 1969: 19
Elgaria kingii nobilis — CROTHER 2000
Elgaria kingii nobilis — COLLINS & TAGGART 2009
Elgaria kingii nobilis — LANGNER et al. 2019 
DistributionUSA (Arizona, New Mexico),
Mexico (NE Sonora, NW Chihuahua, E Sinaloa, W Durango, Colima, Jalisco, Nayarit)

kingii: E Sonora, W Chihuahua, probably southward into Durango and Sinaloa. Type locality: Mexico. Restricted to Mojárachic by SMITH & TAYLOR 1950. Elevation up to 8826 ft (Medica 1965).

nobilis: SW New Mexico, SE Arizona. Sonora. Type locality: Fort Webster Copper Mines of the Gila [Santa rita del Cobre], New Mexico.

usufa: Mexico (Chihuahua)

ferruginea: Mexico (Aguascalientes, Durango, Sinaloa). Type locality: two miles north of Pueblo Neuvo, ca. 6000 ft., Durango.  
Reproductionoviparous 
TypesHolotype: BMNH V25a/1946.8.29 (fide Webb 1979)
Syntype: MNHN 1999 (2553), 187 (94?) mm (= MHNP) [multifasciatus]
Syntypes: USNM 3076 (2) [nobilis]
Holotype: MSU 4093; adult female, obtained on 22 July 1960 by Robert G. Webb [ferruginea] 
DiagnosisDiagnosis: An Elgaria of the kingii group with 50-56 transverse rows of dorsals; uppermost primary temporal in contact with the uppermost secondary temporal (Tihen 1948: 299). For an alternative diagnosis see Good 1988: 75.


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CommentBocourt’s paper from 1878 is also cited as being from 1872 in SMITH & TAYLOR 1950. we haven’t seen the original and therefore don’t know which one bears the right year. Synonymy and subspecies after SMITH & TAYLOR 1950.
Bryson et al. (2005) provided evidence that the single specimen of Elgaria usafa
from the Sierra del Nido in Chihuahua is an aberrantly patterned E. kingii and suggested to synonymize E. usafa with E. kingii.

Distribution: see map in Leavitt et al. 2017: Fig. 1. 
Etymologynamed after Captain and Admiral Philip Parker King (1791-1856), Australian-born British marine surveyor and collector. 
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