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Southern Alligator Lizard
Elgaria multicarinata (Blainville, 1835)

Current SSAR Comments:
There are no current SSAR comments for this taxon.

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First instance(s) of published English names:
Banded Elgaria (Elgaria grandis: Cooper, James G., George Suckley, William Cooper, George Gibbs, Asa Gray, and John L. Le Conte. 1859. The natural history of Washington territory, with much relating to Minnesota, Nebraska, Kansas, Oregon, and California, between the thirty-sixth and forty-ninth parallels of latitude, being those parts of the final reports on the survey of the Northern Pacific railroad route, containing the climate and physical geography, with full catalogues and descriptions of the plants and animals collected from 1853 to 1857. Bailliere Bros., London, H. Bailliere;, New York, New York. pp.); Many-keeled Lizard (Gerrhonotus multicarinatus: Cooper, James G. 1869. The fauna of California and its geographical distribution. Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences 4():61-81); Webb's Lizard (Gerrhonotus webbi: Cooper, James G. 1869. The fauna of California and its geographical distribution. Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences 4():61-81); Many-hued Lizard (Gerrhonotus multicarinatus: Brown, Arthur, E. 1902. Report of the Board of Directors. Pages 5-22 in Thirtieth Annual Report of the Board of Directors of the Zoological Society of Philadelphia. Allen, Lane, and Scott, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. pp.); San Lucan Alligator Lizard (Gerrhonotus multicarinatus: 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.); Western Alligator Lizard (Gerrhonotus scincicauda scincicauda: 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.); San Diegan Alligator Lizard (Gerrhonotus scincicauda webbii: 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.); San Diego Alligator Lizard (Gerrhonotus multicarinatus: Schmidt, Karl P. 1953. A Check List of North American Amphibians and Reptiles. 6th Edition. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, Illinois. 280pp.); Red-backed Alligator Lizard (Gerrhonotus multicarinatus: Schmidt, Karl P. 1953. A Check List of North American Amphibians and Reptiles. 6th Edition. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, Illinois. 280pp.); Red-backed Alligator Lizard (Gerrhonotus multicarinatus multicarinatus: Schmidt, Karl P. 1953. A Check List of North American Amphibians and Reptiles. 6th Edition. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, Illinois. 280pp.); Oregon Alligator Lizard (Gerrhonotus multicarinatus scincicauda: 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
  
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GenBank
  
USGS - Nonindigenous Aquatic Species Database

Pertinent LIterature:
1835 Blainville, Henri-Marie Ducrotay. Description de quelques espèces de reptiles de la Californie: Précédée de l'analyse d'un systéme général d'erpétologie et d'amphibiologie. [Description of some species of reptiles from California: Preceded by the analysis of a general system of herpetology and amphibiology.] Nouvelles Annales Du Museum D'Histoire Naturelle, Paris [ New Annals of the Natural History Museum, Paris] 3(2):233-296
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
1934 Fitch, Henry S. A shift of specific names in the genus Gerrhonotus. Copeia 1934(4):172-173
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
1976 Lais, P. Mike. Gerrhonotus multicarinatus. Catalogue of American Amphibians and Reptiles (187):1-4
1987 Good, David A. A phylogenetic analysis of cranial osteology in the Gerrhonotine lizards. Journal of Herpetology 21(4):285-297
1988 Good, David A. Phylogenetic relationships among gerrhonotine lizards; an analysis of external morphology. University of California Publications in Zoology (121):1-139
1988 Good, David A. Allozyme variation and phylogenetic relationships among the species of Elgaria (Squamata: Anguidae). Herpetologica 44(2):154-162
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

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