Madrean alligator lizard

Madrean alligator lizard
Conservation status
Least Concern  (IUCN 3.1) [1]
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
Elgaria kingii Gray, 1838 Gerrhonotus kingii — O'Shaughnessy, 1873 Gerrhonotus multifasciatus A.M.C. Duméril & Bibron, 1839 Gerrhonotus kingii — Bocourt, 1878 Elgaria kingii — Tihen, 1948 Elgaria usafa H.M. Smith et al. 2003[2]

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. "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).

Further reading

• Boulenger GA. 1885. Catalogue of the Lizards in the British Museum (Natural History). Second Edition. Volume II. ... Anguidæ ... London: Trustees of the British Museum (Natural History). (Taylor and Francis, printers). xiii + 497 pp. + Plates I-XXIV. (Gerrhonotus kingii, pp. 274-275).

• Gray JE. 1838. Catalogue of the Slender-tongued Saurians, with Descriptions of many new Genera and Species. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., First Series 1: 274-283, 388-394. (Elgaria kingii, new species, pp. 390-391).

• Smith HM, Brodie ED Jr. 1982. Reptiles of North America: A Guide to Field Identification. New York: Golden Press. 240 pp. ISBN 0-307-13666-3. ("Elgaria kingi [sic]", pp. 86-87).

• Stebbins RC. 2003. A Field Guide to Western Reptiles and Amphibians, Third Edition. The Peterson Field Guide Series ®. Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin. xiii + 533 pp. ISBN 978-0-395-98272-3. (Elgaria kingii, pp. 334-335 + Plate 41 + Map 124).