Interesting Facts
Common Names
Common Names in English:
Arizona Alligator Lizard, Madrean Alligator Lizard
Description
Habitat
Ecology:
Habitats
include pine-oak woodlands, riparian
areas of canyon
floors
in mountain ranges
, juniper-grassland, chaparral
, high dry grassland,
oak woodland, open pine-fir forest
, and talus
; this is primarily
a montane
species, but it also occurs along major drainages
in desert
(e.g.
, creosote
bush
) and grassland (Degenhardt et al.
1996,
Stebbins 2003). The lizards hide among logs
, rocks, dense vegetation,
and leaf litter
.[1].
List of Habitats:
- 1 Forest
- 1.4 Forest - Temperate
- 1.5 Forest - Subtropical/Tropical Dry
- 3 Shrubland
- 3.4 Shrubland - Temperate
- 4 Grassland
- 4.4 Grassland - Temperate
- 8 Desert
- 8.1 Desert - Hot
- 8.2 Desert - Temperate [more info]
Taxonomy
- Domain:
Eukaryota
(
)
- Whittaker & Margulis,1978
- eukaryotes
- Kingdom:
Animalia
()
- C. Linnaeus, 1758
- animals
- Subkingdom:
Bilateria
()
- (Hatschek, 1888) Cavalier-Smith, 1983
- Branch:
Deuterostomia
()
- Grobben, 1908
- Infrakingdom:
Chordonia
()
- (Haeckel, 1874) Cavalier-Smith, 1998
- Phylum:
Chordata
()
- Bateson, 1885
- Chordates
- Subphylum:
Vertebrata
()
- Cuvier, 1812
- Vertebrates
- Infraphylum:
Gnathostomata
()
- auct.
- Jawed Vertebrates
- Superclass:
Tetrapoda
()
- Goodrich, 1930
- Class:
Lepidosauria
()
- Subclass:
Diapsida
()
- Infraclass:
Lepidosauromorpha
()
- Superorder:
Lepidosauria
()
-
- Order:
Squamata
()
- Suborder:
Lacertilia
()
- Infraorder:
Anguimorpha
()
- Family:
Anguidae
()
- Subfamily:
Gerrhonotinae
()
- Genus:
Elgaria
()
- Gray, 1838
- Specific name:
kingii
- Gray, 1838
- Scientific name: - Elgaria kingii Gray, 1838
- Specific name:
kingii
- Gray, 1838
- Genus:
Elgaria
(
- Subfamily:
Gerrhonotinae
(
- Family:
Anguidae
(
- Infraorder:
Anguimorpha
(
- Suborder:
Lacertilia
(
- Order:
Squamata
(
- Superorder:
Lepidosauria
(
- Infraclass:
Lepidosauromorpha
(
- Subclass:
Diapsida
(
- Class:
Lepidosauria
(
- Superclass:
Tetrapoda
(
- Infraphylum:
Gnathostomata
(
- Subphylum:
Vertebrata
(
- Phylum:
Chordata
(
- Infrakingdom:
Chordonia
(
- Branch:
Deuterostomia
(
- Subkingdom:
Bilateria
(
- Kingdom:
Animalia
(
Synonyms
Chiszar & Ingrasci 2003 • Elgaria kingii kingii Tihen 1948: 299 • Elgaria kingii kingii — Smith & Taylor 1950: 205 • Elgaria kingii — Liner 1994 • Elgaria usafa • Elgaria usufa Smith • Gerrhonotus kingii — Bocourt 1878: 339 • Gerrhonotus kingii — Boulenger 1885: 274 • Gerrhonotus kingii — O’shaughnessy 1873: 46 • Gerrhonotus kingii — Stebbins 1985: 166 • Gerrhonotus kingii — fitch 1938 • Gerrhonotus multifasciatus DumÉril & Bibron 1839: 401
Notes
Name
Status: Accepted Name
.
Comment: kingii: Holotype: BMNH Bocourt’s paper from 1878 is also
cited as being from 1872 in SMITH & TAYLOR 1950. we haven’t seen
the original and therefore don’t know which one bears the right
year.
Synonymy
and subspecies
after SMITH & TAYLOR 1950. Bryson et
al. (2005) provided evidence that the single specimen of Elgaria
usafa from the Sierra del Nido in Chihuahua is an aberrantly patterned
E. kingii and suggested to synonymize E. usafa with E. kingii.
Formerly included
in the genus Gerrhonotus (see Good 1988).
We follow Bryson et al. (2005) by including Elgaria usafa
as a junior synonym
of E. kingii.[1].
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)
More Info
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Further Reading
- Bulletin - United States National Museum. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, [etc.];1877-1971. url p. 205, p. 242, p. 245, p. 41.
- Catalogue of the lizards in the British museum (Natural history) / London: Printed by order of the Trustees, 1885-87. url .
- Occasional papers of the California Academy of Sciences. San Francisco: California Academy of Sciences, url p. 461.
- The Great Basin naturalist. 59 1999 Provo, Utah: M.L. Bean Life Science Museum, Brigham Young University, 1939-1999. url , goldberg, bursey & cheam, page 198, p. 402.
- 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.
- The reptiles of western North America, an account of the species known to inhabit California and Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Utah, Nevada, Arizona, British Columbia, Sonora and Lower California, by John Van Denburgh, with one hundred and twenty-eight plates. San Francisco, California Academy of Sciences, 1922. url p. 461.
- Transactions of the San Diego Society of Natural History. 11 1949 [San Diego]: The Society, 1905-1989. url p. 135.
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 6 providers.
- Hammerson, G.A., Vazquez Díaz, J. & Quintero Díaz, G.E. 2007. In IUCN 2008. 2008 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCNRedList.org. Downloaded July 19, 2008.
- Hammerson, G.A., Vazquez Daz, J. & Quintero Daz, G.E. 2007. Elgaria kingii. In: IUCN 2011. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloadedon 31January2012.
- 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:
- Arizona State University, International Institute for Species Exploration: Arizona State University Amphibian and Reptile Collection
- California Academy of Sciences: CAS Herpetology Collection Catalog
- Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History: Vertebrate specimens
- Museum of Southwestern Biology, Division of Amphibians and Reptiles: Museum of Southwestern Biology, Division of Amphibians and Reptiles database
- Museum of Vertebrate Zoology: Terrestrial vertebrate specimens
- Yale University Peabody Museum: Peabody Herp Collection DiGIR provider Service
Identifiers
- Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 2539356
- Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: Rep-2672
- Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) Taxonomic Serial Number (TSN): 209017
- IUCN ID: 207067
- Natural Heritage Network Species Identifier: ARACB01021
- Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 15347
Footnotes
- Hammerson, G.A., Vazquez Díaz, J. & Quintero Díaz, G.E. 2007. Elgaria kingii. In: IUCN 2011. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 31 January 2012. [back]
