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Madrean Alligator Lizard
Elgaria kingii Gray, 1838

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: Arizona New Mexico

First instance(s) of published English names:
Gila River Lizard (Gerrhonotus nobilis: 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); Sonoran Alligator Lizard (Gerrhonotus kingii: Van Denburgh, John. 1922. The Reptiles of Western North America: An Account of the Species Known to Inhabit California and Oregon, Washinton, Idaho, Utah, Nevada, Arizona, British Columbia, Sonora, and Lower California. Volume I. Lizards. California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco. 556pp.); Sonora Alligator Lizard (Gerrhonotus kingi: 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:
1838 Gray, John E. Catalogue of the slender-tongued Saurians, with descriptions of many new genera and species. The Annals and Magazine of Natural History, First Series 1(5 [July 1838] [XLIII]):388-394
1852 Baird, Spencer F. and Charles Girard. Characteristics of some new reptiles in the Museum of the Smithsonian Institution. Third part. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia 6:173
1938 Fitch, Henry S. A systematic account of the Alligator Lizards (Gerrhonotus) in the Western United States and Lower California. American Midland Naturalist 20(2):381-424
1948 Tihen, Joseph A. Two races of Elgaria kingii Gray. Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Science 51(3):299-305
1970 Webb, Robert G. Gerrhonotus kingii. Catalogue of American Amphibians and Reptiles (97):1-4
1988 Good, David A. The phylogenetic position of fossils assigned to the Gerrhonotinae (Squamata: Anguidae). Journal of Paleontology 8(2):188-195
2005 Bryson, Robert W., Jr., Hobart M. Smith, and Julio Lemos-Espinal. Taxonomic status of the Madrean Alligator Lizard (Lacertilia: Anquidae) of the Sierra del Nido, Chihuahua, Mexico. Southwestern Naturalist 50(4):497-498
2017 Leavitt, Dean H., Angela B. Marion, Bradford D. Hollingsworth, and Tod W. Reeder. Multilocus phylogeny of alligator lizards (Elgaria, Anguidae): Testing mtDNA introgression as the source of discordant molecular phylogenetic hypotheses. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 110(2017):104-121
2024 Pillod, David S., Michelle I. Jeffries, Robert S. Arkle, and Deanna H. Olson. Climate futures for lizards and snakes in western North America may result in new species management issues Ecology and Evolution 14(10):1-23

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