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Common Lesser Earless Lizard
Holbrookia maculata Girard, 1851

Current SSAR Comments:
Recent findings of Mulcahy et al. (2020, PLoS One 17: e0264930) corroborate Blaine’s (2008, Ph.D. dissertation, Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri) finding of three non-overlapping mtDNA haplotype clades, which correspond to the first three subspecies recognized here and in the 8th edition of this list except that H. m. ruthveni is nested within H. m. flavilenta.

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First instance(s) of published English names:
Prairie Lizard (Holbrookia maculata maculata: Yarrow, Henry C. 1876. List of Skeletons and Crania in the Section of Comparative Anatomy of the United States Army Medical Museum for use during the International Exhibition of 1876 in Connection with the Representation of the Medical Department U.S. Army. Army Medical Museum, Washington, D. C. pp.); Mexican Spotted Lizard (Holbrookia maculata approximans: 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); Holbrook's Lizard (Holbrookia maculata maculata: 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); Western Earless Lizard (Holbrookia maculata approximans: 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); Texas Spotted Lizard (Holbrookia maculata: 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.); Western Earless Lizard (Holbrookia maculata approimans: 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.); Spotted Sand Swift (Holbrookia maculata maculata: Brennan, Lawrence A. 1934. A check list of the amphibians and reptiles of Ellis County, Kansas. Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Science 37():189-191); Earless Lizard (Holbrookia maculata: Schmidt, Karl P. 1953. A Check List of North American Amphibians and Reptiles. 6th Edition. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, Illinois. 280pp.); Huachuca Earless Lizard (Holbrookia maculata approximans: Schmidt, Karl P. 1953. A Check List of North American Amphibians and Reptiles. 6th Edition. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, Illinois. 280pp.); Northern Earless Lizard (Holbrookia maculata maculata: Schmidt, Karl P. 1953. A Check List of North American Amphibians and Reptiles. 6th Edition. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, Illinois. 280pp.); Bleached Earless Lizard (Holbrookia maculata ruthveni: 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:
1851 Girard, Charles. On a new American Saurian Reptile. Proceedings of the American Association for the Advancement of Science 4():200-202

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