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Reticulate Collared Lizard
Crotaphytus reticulatus Baird, 1859 “1858”

SSAR 9th Edition Comments:
 There are no current SSAR comments for this taxon.

Range maps are based on curated specimens and provided gratis by CNAH.
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Province/State Distribution:
USA: Texas

First instance(s) of published English names:
Reticulated Lizard (Crotaphytus reticulatus: 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); Reticulated Lizard (Crotaphytus retiulatus: 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
1942 Brown, Bryce C. Notes on Crotaphytus reticulatus. Copeia 1942(3):176
1971 Montanucci, Richard R. Ecological and distributional data on Crotaphytus reticulatus (Sauria: Iguanidae). Herpetologica 27(2):183-197
1974 Montanucci, Richard R. Convergence, polymorphism or introgressive hybridization? An analysis of interaction between Crotaphytus collaris and C. reticulatus (Sauria: Iguanidae). Copeia 1974(1):87-101
1975 Montanucci, Ricahrd R., Ralph W. Axtell, and Herbert C. Dessauer. Evolutionary divergence among collared lizards (Crotaphytus), with comments on the status of Gambelia. Herpetologica 31:336-347
1976 Montanucci, Richard R. Crotaphytus reticulatus. Catalogue of American Amphibians and Reptiles (185):1-2
1996 McGuire, Jimmy A. Phylogenetic systematics of crotaphytid lizards (Reptilia: Iguania: Crotaphytidae). Bulletin of the Carnegie Museum of Natural History 32:iv + 1-143
2007 McGuire, Jimmy A., Charles W. Linkem, Michelle S. Koo, Delbert W. Hutchison, A. Kristopher Lappin, David I. Orange, Julio Lemos-Espinal, Brett R. Riddle, and Jef R. Jaeger. Mitochondrial introgression and incomplete lineage sorting through space and time: Phylogenetics of Crotaphytid lizards. Evolution 61-(12):2879–2897

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