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Reptilia    Squamata (part)    Phrynosomatidae  

Tamaulipan Spot-tailed Earless Lizard
Holbrookia subcaudalis Axtell, 1956

SSAR 9th Edition Comments:
 See note on H. lacerata concerning the recognition and standard English name of this species. The authors cited in that note also found reciprocal monophyly in the mtDNA of northwestern and southeastern populations within H. subcaudalis but did not propose taxonomic recognition of those populations.

Range maps are based on curated specimens and provided gratis by CNAH.
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Province/State Distribution:
USA: Texas

First instance(s) of published English names:
No historic English names have been assigned to this taxon yet.

Taxon Links:

  
Catalog of American Amphibians and Reptiles
  
The Reptile Database
  
NatureServe
  
iNaturalist
  
GenBank
  
USGS - Nonindigenous Aquatic Species Database

Selected References:
1935 Smith, Hobart M. Notes on some Mexican lizards of the genus Holbrookia, with a description of a new species. University of Kansas Science Bulletin 22(8):185-201
1954 Axtell, Ralph W. The systematic relationships of certain lizards in two species groups of the genus Holbrookia. Thesis. University of Texas, Austin. pp.
1956 Axtell, Ralph W. A solution to the long neglected Holbrookia lacerata problem, and the description of two new subspecies of Holbrookia. Bulletin of the Chicago Academy of Sciences 10(11):163-179
1958 Axtell, Ralph W. A monographic revision of the Iguanid genus Holbrookia. Dissertation. University of Texas, Austin. pp.
1958 Norris, Kenneth Stafford. The evolution and systematics of the iguanid genus Uma and its relation to the evolution of other North American desert reptiles. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 114(3):247-326
1963 Clarke, Robert F. The comparative behavior of the iguanid lizards, Callisaurus, Cophosaurus, and Holbrookia. Dissertation. University of Oklahoma, Norman. 136pp.
1965 Clarke, Robert F. An ethological study of the iguanid genera Callisaurus, Cophosaurus, and Holbrookia. Emporia State Research Studies 13(4):1-66
1989 de Queiroz, Kevin. Morphological and biochemical evolution in the sand lizards. Dissertation. University of California, Berkeley. 491pp.
1991 Collins, Joseph T. Viewpoint: A new taxonomic arrangement for some North American amphibins and reptiles Herpetological Review 22(2):42-43
1993 Wiens, John J. Phylogenetic relationships of phrynosomatid lizards and monophyly of the Sceloporus group. Copeia 1993(2):287-299
2013 Lambert, Shea M. and John J. Wiens. Evolution of viviparity: A phylogenetic test of the cold-climate hypothesis in Phrynosomatid lizards. Evolution 67(9):2614–2630
2014 Crother, Brian I. The bold taxonomic hypotheses of Collins (1991): 23 years later. Herpetological Review 45(2):268-272
2019 Hibbitts, Toby J., Wade A. Ryberg, Johanna A. Harvey, Gary Voelker, A. Michelle Lawing, Connor S. Adams, Dalton B. Neuharth, Drew E. Dittmer, C. Michael Duran, Brad D. Wolaver, Jon Paul Pierre, Benjamin J. Labay, and Travis J. LaDuc. Phylogenetic structure of Holbrookia lacerata (Cope 1880) (Squamata: Phrynosomatidae): One species or two? Zootaxa 4619(1):139–154

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