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Reptilia
Squamata (part)
Anniellidae
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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