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Reptilia    Squamata (part)    Phrynosomatidae  

Yuman Desert Fringe-toed Lizard
Uma rufopunctata Cope, 1895

SSAR 9th Edition Comments:
 DeRycke et al. (2020, Zootaxa 4778: 67–100), based on their own results and those of Gottscho et al. (2017, Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 106: 103–117), considered the species status of U. rufopunctata to be uncertain. The populations in question may be 1) part of U. notata, 2) part of U. cowlesi (endemic to Mexico), 3) a hybrid swarm between U. notata, U. cowlesi, and lizards from the geographic area between those species, or 4) a species that is incompletely separated from both U. notata and U. cowlesi.

Range maps are based on curated specimens and provided gratis by CNAH.
(Created by Travis W. Taggart; Version: 2024.04.22.13.48.36)
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Province/State Distribution:
USA: Arizona

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:
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
1977 Adest, Gary Andrew. Genetic relationships in the genus Uma (Iguanidae). Copeia 1977(1):47-52
1989 de Queiroz, Kevin. Morphological and biochemical evolution in the sand lizards. Dissertation. University of California, Berkeley. 491pp.
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
2017 Bezy, Robert L., Philip C. Rosen, Thomas R. Van Devender, and Erik F. Enderson. Southern distributional limits of the Sonoran Desert herpetofauna along the mainland coast of northwestern Mexico Mesoamerican Herpetology 4(1):138-167
2020 Derycke, Elizabeth G., Andrew D. Gottscho, Daniel G. Mulcahy, and Kevin De Queiroz. A new cryptic species of fringe-toed lizards from southwestern Arizona with a revised taxonomy of the Uma notata species complex (Squamata: Phrynosomatidae) Zootaxa 4778(1):67-100

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