| Higher Taxa | Anguidae (Gerrhonotinae), Diploglossa, Anguimorpha, Sauria, Squamata (lizards) |
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| 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.
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| 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).
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| 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. - 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
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