Abronia (lizard)
Abronia is a genus of lizards in the family Anguidae. The genus is native to northern Central America,[2] occurring mainly in Guatemala and Mexico. However, there are species that occur as far south as El Salvador and Honduras, for example, A. montercristoi. Abronia species are almost exclusively arboreal. These lizards possess intriguing physical traits such as keeled body scales, patterns on each individual scale, and some, for example, A. lythrochila, even have spikes on the back of the head. Traits vary from species to species.
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Order: | Squamata |
| Family: | Anguidae |
| Genus: | Abronia Gray, 1838[1] |
Species
These species are recognized as being valid:[2]
- Abronia antauges (Cope, 1866) – Mount Orizaba alligator lizard
- Abronia anzuetoi Campbell & Frost, 1993 – Anzueto's arboreal alligator lizard
- Abronia aurita (Cope, 1869) – Cope's arboreal alligator lizard
- Abronia bogerti Tihen, 1954 – Bogert's arboreal alligator lizard
- Abronia campbelli Brodie & Savage, 1993 – Campbell's alligator lizard
- Abronia chiszari H.M. Smith & R.B. Smith, 1981 – Chiszar's arboreal alligator lizard
- Abronia cuchumatanus Solano-Zavaleta, Nieto-Montes de Oca & Campbell, 2016 – Cuchumatanes alligator lizard
- Abronia cuetzpali Campbell, Solano-Zavaleta, Flores-Villela, Caviedes-Solís & Frost, 2016
- Abronia deppii (Wiegmann, 1828) – Deppe's arboreal alligator lizard
- Abronia fimbriata (Cope, 1884)
- Abronia frosti Campbell, Sasa, Acevedo & Mendelson, 1998 – Frost's arboreal alligator lizard
- Abronia fuscolabialis (Tihen, 1944) – Mount Zempoaltepec arboreal alligator lizard
- Abronia gadovii (Boulenger, 1913) – Gadow's alligator lizard
- Abronia gaiophantasma Campbell & Frost, 1993 – brilliant arboreal alligator lizard
- Abronia graminea (Cope, 1864) – Mexican alligator lizard
- Abronia juarezi (Karges & J.W. Wright, 1987) – Sierra Juarez alligator lizard
- Abronia leurolepis Campbell & Frost, 1993 – smoothback arboreal alligator lizard
- Abronia lythrochila H.M. Smith & Álvarez del Toro, 1963 – red-lipped arboreal alligator lizard
- Abronia martindelcampoi Flores-Villela & Sánchez-Herrera, 2003 – Martín del Campo's arboreal alligator lizard
- Abronia matudai (Hartweg & Tihen, 1946) – Matuda's arboreal alligator lizard
- Abronia meledona Campbell & Brodie, 1999
- Abronia mitchelli Campbell, 1982 – Mitchell's arboreal alligator lizard
- Abronia mixteca Bogert & Porter, 1967 – Mixtecan arboreal alligator lizard
- Abronia montecristoi Hidalgo, 1983 — Monte Cristo arboreal alligator lizard
- Abronia monticola (Cope, 1878)
- Abronia moreletii (Bocourt, 1871) – Morelet's alligator lizard
- Abronia morenica Clause, Luna-Reyes & Nieto-Montes de Oca, 2020[3] – Sierra Morena arboreal alligator lizard
- Abronia oaxacae (Günther, 1885) – Oaxacan arboreal alligator lizard
- Abronia ochoterenai (Martín del Campo, 1939) – Ochoterena's arboreal alligator lizard, Northern Chiapas arboreal alligator lizard,
- Abronia ornelasi Campbell, 1984 – Ornelas's arboreal alligator lizard, Cerro Baul alligator lizard
- Abronia ramirezi Campbell, 1994 – Ramirez's alligator lizard
- Abronia reidi Werler & Shannon, 1961 – Reid's arboreal alligator lizard
- Abronia salvadorensis Hidalgo, 1983 — Salvador arboreal alligator lizard
- Abronia smithi Campbell & Frost, 1993 — Smith's arboreal alligator lizard
- Abronia taeniata (Wiegmann, 1828) – banded arboreal alligator lizard, bromeliad arboreal alligator lizard
- Abronia vasconcelosii (Bocourt, 1871) — Bocourt's arboreal alligator lizard
- Abronia viridiflava (Bocourt, 1873) — dwarf alligator lizard
- Abronia zongolica García-Vázquez, Clause, Gutiérrez-Rodríguez, Cazares-Hernández & de la Torre-Loranca, 2022[4]
References
- "Abronia". ITIS (Integrated Taxonomic Information System). www.itis.gov.
- Abronia. The Reptile Database. Consulted: 2012-04-06.
- Clause, Adam G.; Luna-Reyes, Roberto; Nieto-Montes de Oca, Adrián (2020). "A New Species of Abronia (Squamata: Anguidae) from a Protected Area in Chiapas, Mexico". Herpetologica. 76 (3): 330. doi:10.1655/Herpetologica-D-19-00047. ISSN 0018-0831. S2CID 221564537. (Abronia morenica, new species).
- García-Vázquez, Uri Omar; Clause, Adam G.; Gutiérrez-Rodríguez, Jorge; Cazares-Hernández, Erasmo; de la Torre-Loranca, Miguel Ángel (2022). "A New Species of Abronia (Squamata: Anguidae) from the Sierra de Zongolica of Veracruz, Mexico". Ichthyology & Herpetology. 110 (1): 33-49. (Abronia zongolica, new species).
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