Elgaria coerulea

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• Description
• Taxonomy
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• Notes

Interesting Facts

Common Names

Description

Habitat

Typically found at an altitude of 0 to 2,147 meters (0 to 7,044 feet).[1]

Ecology: Habitat includes open areas in coniferous forest , grassy grown-over areas at margins of woodlands, clearcuts, and areas along streams ; along coast this lizard sometimes occurs far from trees or major cover ; it is associated with rock outcrops and talus in some areas (Lais 1976).[2].

List of Habitats:

•     1     Forest   
  
•     1.4     Forest - Temperate   
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Taxonomy

Synonyms

Elgaria coerulea — Crother 2000 • Gerrhonotus caeruleus Boulenger 1885: 273 • Gerrhonotus caeruleus [sic] — Boulenger 1885: 273 • Gerrhonotus coeruleus utahensis Woodbury 1945 • Gerrhonotus coeruleus Wiegmann 1828: 380 • Gerrhonotus coeruleus — Stebbins 1985: 166

Notes

Name Status: Accepted Name .

Comment: Holotype: ZMB 1163

Elgaria coerulea formerly was included in genus Gerrhonotus (see Good 1988).[2].

Similar Species

Members of the genus Elgaria

ZipcodeZoo has pages for 16 species and subspecies in this genus:

E. coerulea (Northern Alligator Lizard) · E. coerulea coerulea (Northern Alligator Lizard) · E. coerulea palmeri (Northern Alligator Lizard) · E. coerulea principis (Northern Alligator Lizard) · E. coerulea shastensis (Northern Alligator Lizard) · E. kingii (Madrean Alligator Lizard) · E. kingii nobilis (Arizona Alligator Lizard) · E. multicarinata (Southern Alligator Lizard) · E. multicarinata multicarinata (California Alligator Lizard) · E. multicarinata scincicauda (Oregon Alligator Lizard) · E. multicarinata webbii (San Diego Alligator Lizard) · E. nana (Los Coronados Alligator Lizard) · E. panamintina (Panamint Alligator Lizard) · E. paucicarinata (San Lucanalligator Lizard) · E. paucicarinata paucicarinata (San Lucanalligator Lizard) · E. velazquezi (Central Peninsular Alligator Lizard)

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Further Reading

• Amphibian and reptile survey of the Bitterroot National Forest: 1995 / a report to USDA Forest Service, Bitterroot National Forest; submitted by Paul Hendricks and James D. Reichel. Helena, Mont.: Montana Natural Heritage Program, c1996. url p. 23.
• Lee Metcalf National Wildlife Refuge preliminary amphibian and reptile investigations: 1996 / Helena, Mont.: Montana Natural Heritage Program; c1997. url , .
• Potential wildlife-highway interactions at select mile-markers along Montana Department of Transportation routes an ArcView GIS analysis / Bozeman, Mont.: Fish and Wildlife Management Program, Montana State University, 2001 url .
• The Canadian field-naturalist. Ottawa, Ottawa Field-Naturalists' Club. url p. 624, p. 734, p. 739.
• The Great Basin naturalist. 34 1974 Provo, Utah: M.L. Bean Life Science Museum, Brigham Young University, 1939-1999. url fig. 1, page 259.
• The palatal dentition in squamate reptiles: morphology, development, attachment, and replacement / D. Luke Mahler, Maureen Kearney. 108 2006 Chicago, Ill.: Field Museum of Natural History, c2006. url p. 29.
• Variation in clutch and litter size in New World reptiles / by Henry S. Fitch. 1985 Lawrence: University of Kansas, 1985. url p. 14, fig. 3, page 15, p. 73.

Notes

Contributors

• Brands, S.J. (comp.) 1989-present. The Taxonomicon. Universal Taxonomic Services, Zwaag, The Netherlands. Accessed February 5, 2012.
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Accessed February 27, 2008. http://www.gbif.org Mediated distribution data from 4 providers.
• Hammerson, G.A. 2007. Elgaria coerulea. In: IUCN 2011. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloadedon 31January2012.
• Hammerson, G.A. 2007. In IUCN 2008. 2008 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCNRedList.org. Downloaded July 19, 2008.
• IUCN 2012. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. . Downloaded on January 28, 2012.
• Ruggiero M., Gordon D., Bailly N., Kirk P., Nicolson D. (2011). The Catalogue of Life Taxonomic Classification, Edition 2, Part A. In: Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life: 2011 Annual Checklist (Bisby F.A., Roskov Y.R., Orrell T.M., Nicolson D., Paglinawan L.E., Bailly N., Kirk P.M., Bourgoin T., Baillargeon G., Ouvrard D., eds). DVD; Species 2000: Reading, UK.
• TIGR Reptile Database . Release date: October 2, 2007
• Uetz, Peter. The Reptile Database

Data Sources

Accessed through GBIF Data Portal February 27, 2008:

• California Academy of Sciences: CAS Herpetology Collection Catalog
• Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History: Vertebrate specimens
• Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University: MCZ Herpetology Collection - Reptile Database
• Museum of Vertebrate Zoology: Terrestrial vertebrate specimens
• Yale University Peabody Museum: Peabody Herp Collection DiGIR provider Service

Identifiers

• Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 2539355
• Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: Rep-2671
• Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) Taxonomic Serial Number (TSN): 209008
• IUCN ID: 207066
• Natural Heritage Network Species Identifier: ARACB01010
• Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 177659

Footnotes

1. Mean = 933.840 meters (3,063.780 feet), Standard Deviation = 686.410 based on 251 observations. Altitude information for each observation from British Oceanographic Data Centre. [back]
2. Hammerson, G.A. 2007. Elgaria coerulea. In: IUCN 2011. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 31 January 2012. [back]

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