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    Species Accepted

    Elgaria paucicarinata (Fitch, 1934)

    San Lucan Alligator Lizard
    EukaryotaAnimalia...Elgaria
    IUCNLeast Concern

    Classification and descendants

    Source: Catalogue of Life

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      Synonyms and combinations

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      Vernacular names

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      Lagartija lagarto de San Lucas Spanish
      Lagarto de Cuatro Patitas Spanish
      Lagarto escorpión de San Lucas Spanish
      Lagarto-jacaré-de-San-Lucas Portuguese
      San Lucan Alligator Lizard English
      聖盧卡斯岬鼉蜥 Chinese

      Bibliography

      Source: Catalogue of Life

      14 results
      Stebbins, R. C. (1985). A Field Guide to Western Reptiles and Amphibians, 2nd ed. Houghton Mifflin, Boston.
      Fitch, H. S. (1938). A Systematic Account of the Alligator Lizards (Gerrhonotus) in the Western United States and Lower California. American Midland Naturalist 20: 381-424.
      Grismer, L. L., & McGuire, J. A. (1993). The oases of central Baja California, Mexico. Part I. A preliminary account of the relict mesophilic herpetofauna and the status of the oases. Bull. Southern California Acad. Sci. 92 (1): 2-24.
      Lais, & Mike, P. (1976). Gerrhonotus cedrosensis. Catalogue of American Amphibians and Reptiles (177): 1.
      Fitch, H. S. (1934). A shift of specific names in the genus Gerrhonotus. Copeia 1934 (4): 172-173.
      Grismer, L. Lee and Bradford D. Hollingsworth. (2001). A taxonomic review of the endemic Alligator Lizard Elgaria paucicarinata (Anguidae: Squamata) of Baja California, México with a description of a new species. Herpetologica 57 (4):488-496.
      Pianka, E. R., & Vitt, L. J. (2003). Lizards - Windows to the Evolution of Diversity. University of California Press, Berkeley, 347 Pp. [Review in Copeia 2004: 955].
      Jones, L. L., & Lovich, R. E. (2009). Lizards of the American Southwest. A photographic field guide. Rio Nuevo Publishers, Tucson, AZ, 568 Pp. [Review in Reptilia 86: 84].
      Valdez-Villavicencio, Jorge H. and Patricia Galina-Tessaro. (2014). Elgaria paucicarinata (San Lucan alligator lizard) field and preferred body temperatures. Herpetological Review 45 (3): 495.
      Grismer, L. L. (1988). Geographic variation, taxonomy, and biogeography of the anguid genus Elgaria (Reptilia: Squamata) in Baja California, Mexico. Herpetologica 44: 431-439.

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