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San Diegan Legless Lizard
Anniella stebbinsi Papenfuss and Parham, 2013

Current SSAR Comments:
This species consists of two disjunct populations, one south of the Transverse Ranges in southern California and northern Baja California and one in the Tehachapi and Piute Mountains (Papenfuss and Parham, 2013, Breviora 536: 1–17), which is phylogenetically nested within the former (Parham and Papenfuss, 2009, Conservation Genetics 10: 169–176).

Range maps are based on curated specimens and provided gratis by CNAH.
(Created by Travis W. Taggart; Version: 2023.09.12.20.46.41)
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First instance(s) of published English names:
Footless Lizard (Anniella pulchra: Schmidt, Karl P. 1953. A Check List of North American Amphibians and Reptiles. 6th Edition. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, Illinois. 280pp.);

Taxon Links:

  
Catalog of American Amphibians and Reptiles
  
The Reptile Database
  
NatureServe
  
iNaturalist
  
GenBank
  
USGS - Nonindigenous Aquatic Species Database

Pertinent LIterature:
2008 Hunt, Lawrence E. Anniella pulchra (California Legless Lizard). Catalogue of American Amphibians and Reptiles (850):1-14
2013 Papenfuss, Theodore J. and James F. Parham. Four new species of California Legless Lizards (Anniella). Breviora (536):1-17

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