Gambelia copeii (YARROW, 1882)

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Higher Taxa	Crotaphytidae, Iguania, Sauria, Squamata (lizards)
Subspecies
Common Names	E: Cope's Leopard Lizard S: Cachorón Leopard de Baja California
Synonym	Crotaphytus copeii YARROW 1882: 441 Crotaphytus copii — GARMAN 1884: 16 Gambelia wislizeni copei — BANTA & TANNER 1968 Gambelia wislizeni neseotes BANTA & TANNER 1968 Gambelia wislizeni copeii — BOSTIC 1971 Gambelia wislizenii copeii — LINER 1994 Gambelia wislizenii copei — GRISMER et al. 1994 Gambelia copeii — MCGUIRE 1996 Gambelia copeii — CROTHER 2000 Gambelia copeii — COLLINS & TAGGART 2009 Gambelia copeii — HEIMES 2022 Gambelia copeii — HANSEN & SHEDD 2025
Distribution	USA (extreme S California) Mexico (Baja California, Cedros Island) Type locality: La Paz, Baja California
Reproduction	oviparous
Types	Holotype: USNM 12663 Holotype: CAS 79872 [neseotes]
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Comment	Distribution: map for California in Thomson et al. 2016: 203.
Etymology	Named after Edward Drinker Cope (1840-1897), American herpetologist. See Osborn 1929 and Vetter 2003 for biographical notes.
References	Banta, Benjamin H. and Wilmer W. Tanner 1968. The systematics of Crotaphytus wislizeni, the leopard lizards (Sauria: Iguanidae). Part II. A review of the status of the Baja California Peninsular populations and a description of a new subspecies from Cedros Island. Great Basin Naturalist 28 (4):183-194 - get paper here Beolens, Bo; Michael Watkins, and Michael Grayson 2011. The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, USA - get paper here Bezy, Robert L. 2025. Biogeography of the Peninsular Reptiles in California. SONORAN HERPETOLOGIST 38 (2): 71-80 - get paper here Bostic, D. L. 1971. Herpetofauna of the Pacific Coast of north central Baja California, Mexico, with a description of a new subspecies of Phyllodactylus xanti. Transactions of the San Diego Society of Natural History, 16: 237—263 - 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. Crother, B. I. (ed.) 2012. Standard Common and Current Scientific Names for North American Amphibians, Turtles, Reptiles, and Crocodilians, Seventh Edition. Herpetological Circular 39: 1-92 Garman,Samuel 1884. The North American reptiles and batrachians. A list of the species occuring north of the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, with references. Bull. Essex Institute 16: 1-46 - get paper here Grismer, L. L.; McGuire, J. A.; Hollingsworth, B. D. 1994. A report on the herpetofauna of the Vizcaino Peninsula, Baja California, Mexico, with a discussion of its biogeographic and taxonomic implications. Bull. Southern California Acad. Sci. 93 (2): 45-80 Hansen, Robert and Jackson D. Shedd 2025. California Amphibians and Reptiles. Princeton University Press, 528 pp., ISBN<br />9780691249087 (ebook) - get paper here Heimes, P. 2022. LIZARDS OF MEXICO - Part 1 Iguanian lizards. Edition Chimaira, Frankfurt Am Main, 448 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 Mahrdt, C. R.; James A. McGuire & Kent R. Beaman 2010. Gambelia copeii (Cope's Leopard Lizard). Catalogue of American Amphibians and Reptiles (871): - get paper here McGuire, J. A. 1996. Phylogenetic systematics of crotaphytid lizards (Reptilia: Iguania: Crotaphytidae). Bulletin of Carnegie Museum of Natural History 32: 1-142 - get paper here Osborn, H. F. 1929. Biographical memoir of Edward Drinker Cope 1840-1897. National Academy of Sciences 13: 127-317 (1930?) Peralta-García A, Valdez-Villavicencio JH, Fucsko LA, Hollingsworth BD, Johnson JD, Mata-Silva V, Rocha A, DeSantis DL, Porras LW, and Wilson LD. 2023. The herpetofauna of the Baja California Peninsula and its adjacent islands, Mexico: composition, distribution, and conservation status. Amphibian & Reptile Conservation 17(1&2): 57–142 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. and S. M. McGinnis 2012. Field Guide to Amphibians and Reptiles of California. Revised edition. University of California Press. Berkeley, CA, 552 pp. [ISBN 9780520244665] [review in Copeia, 2013(4):785-786] - get paper here Switak, Karl-Heinz 2014. Der Leopard unter den Reptilien. Terraria-Elaphe 2014 (2): 26-33 - get paper here 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 Van Denburgh,J. 1895. A review of the herpetology of Lower California. Part I - Reptiles. Proc. Cal. Acad. Sci. (2) 5: 77-163 - get paper here Vetter, H. 2003. Edward Drinker Cope (1840-1897). Sekretär 3 (2): 21-30 - get paper here Yarrow, H.C. 1882. Description of new species of reptiles and amphibians in the US National Museum. Proc. US Natl. Mus. 5: 438-443 - get paper here
External links	IUCN Red List National Center for Biotechnology Information http://www.zo.utexas.edu/research/txherps/lizards/ http://www.sdnhm.org/fieldguide/herps/replist.html Google images

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