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Abronia gadovii

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Species of lizard

Abronia gadovii
Conservation status

Least Concern  (IUCN 3.1)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Squamata
Family: Anguidae
Genus: Abronia
Species: A. gadovii
Binomial name
Abronia gadovii
(Boulenger, 1913)
Synonyms
  • Gerrhonotus gadovii
    Boulenger, 1913
  • Barisia gadovii
    — Tihen, 1949
  • Mesaspis gadovii
    — Good, 1988
  • Abronia gadovii
    — Gutiérrez-Rodríguez et al., 2020

Abronia gadovii, also known commonly as Gadow's alligator lizard and el escorpión de Gadow in Mexican Spanish, is a species of lizard in the family Anguidae. The species is endemic to the highlands of the Sierra Madre del Sur in Guerrero and Oaxaca, Mexico. Two subspecies are recognized:

Etymology

The specific name, gadovii, is in honor of German ornithologist Hans Friedrich Gadow.

Habitat

The preferred natural habitat of A. gadovii is forest, including second-growth forest.

Description

A. gadovii may attain a snout-to-vent length (SVL) of about 9 cm (3.5 in), plus a tail length of about 15 cm (5.9 in).

Diet

A. gadovii preys predominately upon insects, and is known to also devour small lizards.

Reproduction

A. gadovii is ovoviviparous.

Subspecies

Two subspecies are recognized as being valid including the nominotypical subspecies.

  • Abronia gadovii gadovii (Boulenger, 1913) – Guerrero
  • Abronia gadovii levigata (Tihen, 1949) – Oaxaca

Nota bene: A trinomial authority in parentheses indicates that the subspecies was originally described in a genus other than Abronia.

References

  1. ^ Canseco-Márquez, L.; Campbell, J.A.; Ponce-Campos, P.; Muñoz-Alonso, A.; García Aguayo, A. (2007). "Mesaspis gadovii". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2007: e.T63713A12708812. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2007.RLTS.T63713A12708812.en.
  2. ^ Abronia gadovii at the Reptarium.cz Reptile Database. Accessed 21 November 2022.
  3. Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. ISBN 978-1-4214-0135-5. (Mesaspis gadovii, p. 96).
  4. Boulenger GA (1913).
  5. Santos-Bibiano, Rufino; Woolrich-Piña, Guillermo A.; Beltrán-Sánchez, Elizabeth; Méndez-de la Cruz, Fausto R. (2016). "Mesaspis gadovii (Gadow's Alligator Lizard). Saurophagy". Mesoamerican Herpetology 3 (2): 484–486.

Further reading

  • Boulenger GA (1913). "Descriptions of new Lizards in the Collection of the British Museum". Annals and Magazine of Natural History, Eighth Series 12: 563–566. (Gerrhonotus gadovii, new species. pp. 564–565).
  • Good DA (1988). Phylogenetic Relationships Among Gerrhonotine Lizards: An Analysis of External Morphology. (University of California Publications in Zoology, Volume 121). Berkeley, Los Angeles, London: University of California Press. x + 139 pp. ISBN 0-520-09744-0. (Mesaspis gadovii, new combination, p. 82).
  • Tihen JA (1949). "A Review of the Lizard Genus Barisia". University of Kansas Science Bulletin 33 (1): 217–254 + Plates I–II. (Barisia gadovii levigata, new subspecies, pp. 231–233 + Plate II, figures 3–5).
Taxon identifiers
Mesaspis gadovii


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