Sauromalus slevini VAN DENBURGH, 1922

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Higher Taxa	Iguanidae, Iguania, Sauria, Squamata (lizards)
Subspecies
Common Names	E: Slevin's Chuckwalla, Monserrat Chuckwalla S: Iguana de Pared Monserrat
Synonym	Sauromalus slevini VAN DENBURGH 1922 Sauromalus slevini — LINER 1994 Sauromalus slevini — HOLLINGSWORTH 1998: 154 Sauromalus slevini — KÖHLER & ZORN 2014 Sauromalus slevini — HEIMES 2022
Distribution	Mexico (Gulf of California: Monserrate, Carmen, Soronados islands) Type locality: South end of Monserrate Island, Gulf of California
Reproduction	oviparous
Types	Holotype: CAS 50503
Diagnosis
Comment	Remarks. This species is intermediate in size, color, and scale characters between S. hispidus and S. ater. Specimens from the three islands where it occurs seem to be indistinguishable.
Etymology	Named after Joseph Richard Slevin (1881-1957), curator of Herpetology at the California Academy of Sciences 1928-1957.
References	Alberts, A.C.; Carter, R.L.; Hayes, W.K. & Martins, E.P. (eds.) 2004. Iguanas - Biology and Conservation. University of California Press, 356 pp. - get paper here Beaman,K.R.; Hollingsworth,B.D.; Lawler, H.E. & Lowe,C.H. 1997. Bibliography of Sauromalus (Duméril 1856), the Chuckwallas. Smithsonian Herp. Inf. Serv. (116): 1-44 - 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 Blair, David W. 1994. Chuckwallas. Reptiles 1 (3): 16-22 Buckley, Larry J.; Kevin de Queiroz, Tandora D. Grant, Bradford D. Hollingsworth, John B. Iverson (Chair, <br />Stesha A. Pasachnik, and Catherine L. Stephen (Iguana Taxonomy Working Group, ITWG 2016. A Checklist of the Iguanas of the World (Iguanidae; Iguaninae). Herp. Cons. Biol. 11 (Monograph 6) - get paper here de Queiroz K 1995. Checklist and key to the extant species of Mexican iguanas (Reptilia: Iguaninae). Publ. Esp. Mus. Zool. Univ. Nac. Autón. México 9: 1-48 Heimes, P. 2022. LIZARDS OF MEXICO - Part 1 Iguanian lizards. Edition Chimaira, Frankfurt Am Main, 448 pp. Hollingsworth, B. D. 1998. The systematics of Chuckwallas (Sauromalus) with a phylogenetic analysis of other iguanid lizards. Herpetological Monographs 12: 38-191. - 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 Köhler, G. & Zorn, H. 2014. Chuckwallas. Herpeton-Verlag, 120 pp. [review in Reptilia 23 (132): 62] - get paper here Lovich, R.E.; Grismer, L.L. & Danemann, G. 2009. CONSERVATION STATUS OF THE HERPETOFAUNA OF BAJA CALIFORNIA, MÉXICO AND ASSOCIATED ISLANDS IN THE SEA OF CORTEZ AND PACIFIC OCEAN. Herp. Cons. Biol. 4 (3):358-378 - get paper here 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 Sumarli, A., Hollingsworth, B. D., Valdez–Villavicencio, J. H., & Reeder, T. W. 2023. Phylogenomic data reveal cryptic diversity and deep phylogeographical structure within the common chuckwalla, Sauromalus ater (Squamata: Iguanidae). Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, blad104 - get paper here Van Denburgh, John 1922. The Reptiles of Western North America. Volume I. Lizards. Occ. Pap. Cal. Acad. Sci. (10): 1–612 - get paper here
External links	IUCN Red List National Center for Biotechnology Information https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Richard_Slevin Google images

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