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Western Banded Gecko
Coleonyx variegatus (Baird, 1859 “1858”)

SSAR 9th Edition Comments:
 We have not recognized C. v. bogerti and C. v. utahensis, although Leavitt et al. (2020, Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 190: 181–226) did not explicitly unite them with C. v. variegatus.

Range maps are based on curated specimens and provided gratis by CNAH.
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Province/State Distribution:
USA: Arizona California Nevada New Mexico Utah

First instance(s) of published English names:
Variegated Lizard (Stenodactylus variegatus: Cooper, James G. 1869. The fauna of California and its geographical distribution. Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences 4():61-81); Variegated Gecko (Coleonyx variegatus: Yarrow, Henry C. 1882. Check list of North American Reptilia and Batrachia with catalogue of specimens in U. S. National Museum. Bulletin of the United States National Museum (24):1-249); Banded Gecko (Coleonyx variegatus: Van Denburgh, John. 1897. The reptiles of the Pacific Coast and Great Basin: An account of the species known to inhabit California, and Oregon, Washington, Idaho, and Nevada. Occasional Papers of the California Academy of Sciences 5():9-236); San Diegan Banded Gecko (Coleonyx variegatus abbotti: Schmidt, Karl P. 1953. A Check List of North American Amphibians and Reptiles. 6th Edition. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, Illinois. 280pp.); Tucson Banded Gecko (Coleonyx variegatus bogerti: Schmidt, Karl P. 1953. A Check List of North American Amphibians and Reptiles. 6th Edition. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, Illinois. 280pp.); Utah Banded Gecko (Coleonyx variegatus utahensis: 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

Selected References:
1859 Baird, Spencer F. Description of new genera and species of North American lizards in the museum of the Smithsonian Institution. [1858] Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 10:253-256
1920 Pack, Herbert J. Coleonyx variegatus (Baird) in Utah. Copeia 1920(88):101-102
1933 Smith, Hobart M. On the relationships of the lizards Coleonyx brevis and Coleonyx variegatus. Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Science 36:301-314
1962 Kluge, Arnold G. Comparative osteology of the Eublepharid lizard genus Coleonyx Gray. Journal of Morphology 110:299-332
1970 Dixon, James R. Coleonyx. Catalogue of American Amphibians and Reptiles (95):1-2
1970 Dixon, James R. Coleonyx variegatus. Catalogue of American Amphibians and Reptiles (96):1-4
1975 Stewart, Glenn R. and Ronald S. Daniel. Microornamentation of lizard scales: Some variations and taxonomic correlations. Herpetologica 31(1):117-130
1975 Kluge, Arnold G. Phylogenetic relationships and evolutionary trends in the Eublepharine lizard genus Coleonyx. Copeia 1975(1):24-35
1983 Grismer, L. Lee. A reevaluation of the North American gekkonid genus Anarbylus Murphy and its cladistic relationships to Coleonyx Gray. Herpetologica 39(4):394-399
2017 Bezy, Robert L., Philip C. Rosen, Thomas R. Van Devender, and Erik F. Enderson. Southern distributional limits of the Sonoran Desert herpetofauna along the mainland coast of northwestern Mexico Mesoamerican Herpetology 4(1):138-167

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