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    Species Accepted

    Elgaria coerulea (Wiegmann, 1828)

    Northern Alligator Lizard

    Classification and descendants

    Source: Catalogue of Life

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      Vernacular names

      Source: Catalogue of Life

      14 results
      Lagarto Escorpión de América Occidental Spanish
      Lagarto-jacaré-do-norte Portuguese
      Lézard-alligator boréal French
      Northern Alligator Lizard English
      Northern Alligator Lizard
      Nördliche Krokodilschleiche German
      San Francisco Alligator Lizard
      Shasta Alligator Lizard
      Sierra Alligator Lizard
      aligatorowiec północny Polish

      Bibliography

      Source: Catalogue of Life

      37 results
      Smith, Hobart M. (1946). Handbook of Lizards: Lizards of the United States and of Canada. Comstock, Ithaca, NY, Xxii + 557 Pp.
      Good, David A. (1995). Cranial ossification in the northern alligator lizard, Elgaria coerulea (Squamata, Anguidae). Amphibia-Reptilia 16 (2): 157-166.
      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.
      Otvos, I. S. (1977). Observations on the food of three forest-dwelling lizards in California. Herpetological Review 8 (1): 6-7.
      Fitch, H. S. (1934). New Alligator lizards from the Pacific Coast. Copeia 1934 (1): 6-7.
      McBrayer, L.D. & R.A. Anderson. (2007). Sexual Size Dimorphism and Bite Force in the Northern Alligator Lizard, Elgaria coerulea. Journal of Herpetology 41 (4): 554-559.
      Blackburn, D. G. (1994). Standardized criteria for the recognition of embryonic nutritional patterns in squamate reptiles. Copeia 1994 (4): 925-935.
      Cooper, W.E., Jr. (1990). Prey Odor Discrimination by anguid lizards. Herpetologica 46 (2): 183-190.
      Boulenger, G. A. (1885). Catalogue of the lizards in the British Museum (Natural History). Vol. 2, Second edition. London, Xiii+497 Pp.
      Espinoza, Robert E.;Carre±o, Carrie A.;Van Heest, Ronald W. (1999). Geographic distribution. Elgaria coerulea. Herpetological Review 30 (1): 51-52.

      Citation

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