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Keeled Earless Lizard
Holbrookia propinqua Baird and Girard, 1852

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

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First instance(s) of published English names:
Western Spotted Lizard (Holbrookia maculata propinqua: 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); Long-tailed Spotted Lizard (Holbrookia propinqua: Strecker, John K. 1922. An annotated catalogue of the amphibians and reptiles of Bexar County, Texas. Bulletin Scientific Society of San Antonio (4):1-31); Keel-scaled Earless Lizard (Holbrookia propinqua: 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:
1852 Baird, Spencer F. and Charles Girad. Characteristics of some new reptiles in the Museum of the Smithsonian Institution, Second Part. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia 6():125-129

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