Madrean alligator lizard

Madrean alligator lizard
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Subphylum: Vertebrata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Squamata
Suborder: Sauria
Infraorder: Anguimorpha
Family: Anguidae
Subfamily: Gerrhonotinae
Genus: Elgaria
Species: E. kingii
Binomial name
Elgaria kingii
Gray, 1838[2]
Synonyms

The Madrean alligator lizard (Elgaria kingii ) is a species of anguid lizard endemic to the southwestern United States and adjacent northwestern Mexico.

Etymology

The specific name, kingii, is in honor of Phillip Parker King, an Australian-born Royal Navy officer who surveyed the coast of South America.[3]

Geographic range

E. kingii is found from southeastern Arizona and southwestern New Mexico, United States, southward to Jalisco, Colima, Nayarit, southeastern Zacatecas, and southwestern Aguascalientes, Mexico.

References

  1. Hammerson GA, Vazquez Díaz J, Quintero Díaz GE. (2007). "Elgaria kingii". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2014.2. International Union for Conservation of Nature. Retrieved August 18, 2014.
  2. 1 2 "Elgaria kingii ". The Reptile Database. www.reptile-database.org
  3. Beolens B, Watkins M, Grayson M. 2011. The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. ISBN 978-1-4214-0135-5. (Elgaria kingii, p. 141).

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