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Elegant Earless Lizard
Holbrookia elegans Bocourt, 1874 in Duméril, Mocquard, and Bocourt, 1870-1909

Current SSAR Comments:
Recent work by Mulcahy et al. (2022, PLoS One 17: e0264930) corroborates the findings of Blaine (2008, Ph.D. dissertation, Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri ) of substantial mtDNA sequence divergence between H. e. thermophila and H. e. elegans, although a large sampling gap remains, and that H. e. pulchra is not separate from H. e. thermophila, as proposed previously by Duellman (1955, Occasional Papers of the Museum of Zoology University of Michigan 569: 1–14).

Range maps are based on curated specimens and provided gratis by CNAH.
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First instance(s) of published English names:
Mexican Earless Lizard (Holbrookia elegans: 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 Earless Lizard (Holbrookia maculata elegans: 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:
1874 Bocourt, Marie F. Etudes sur les reptiles. [Studies on reptiles.] Pages 113–192 in Duméril, Mocquard, and Bocourt, 1870-1909. Recherches Zoologiques pour servir a l'Histoire de Ia Faune de l'Amérique Centrale et du Mexique. Mission Scientifique au Mexique et dans l'Amér. Livraison 3. [ Zoological Research to be used in the History of the Fauna of Central America and Mexico. Scientific Mission to Mexico and America. Delivery 3]. Imprimerie Impériale [Imperial Printing Office], Paris, France. pp.
2016 Flores-Villela, Oscar, Roger Bour, and Kraig Adler. Publication history of the Mission scientifique au Mexique et dans l’Amérique Centrale, reptiles and amphibians. Revista Mexicana de Biodiversidad 87(2016):1162–1167

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