Abronia bogerti Tihen, 1954
Bogert's arboreal alligator lizard
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Conservation Status
Last record: 1948
Rediscovered in July 2000
IUCN RedList status: Data Deficient
Distribution
Oaxaca, Mexico
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Holotype: AMNH 68887 ("subadult male").
Type locality: "north of Niltepec, between Cerro Atravesado and Sierra Madre, Oaxaca, Mexico, probably between 2500 and 4500 feet." (Tihen 1954:3).
Media
References
Original scientific description:
Tihen, Joseph Anton. (1954). Gerrhonotine lizards recently added to the American Museum collection, with further revisions of the genus Abronia. American Musuem Novitates 1687: 1-26.
Other references:
Bille, Thomas. (2001). Ein zweites Exemplar von Abronia bogerti TIHEN, 1954 aus Oaxaca, Mexiko, mit Bemerkungen zur Variation der Art (Sauria: Anguidae). Salamandra 37(4): 205-210.
Campbell, J.A. (1984). A new species of the Abronia (Sauria:Anguidae) with comments on the herpetogeography of the highlands of southern Mexico. Herpetologica 40(4): 373-381.
Campbell, J.A. (2007). Abronia bogerti. In: IUCN 2011. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.1. (http://www.iucnredlist.org). Downloaded on 03 July 2011.
Campbell, J. A. and Frost, D. R. (1993). Anguid lizards of the genus Abronia: revisionary notes, descriptions of four new species, a phylogenetic analysis, and key. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 216: 1-121.
Good, D. A. (1988). Phylogenetic relationships among gerrhonotine lizards: an analysis of external morphology. University of California Publications in Zoology 121: 1-139.
Regalado, Pedro Galán. (2015). Los Anfibios y Reptiles Extinguidos: Herpetofauna Desaparecida Desde el Año 1500. Monografías de la Universidade da Coruña 155: 1-509.
http://reptile-database.reptarium.cz/species?genus=Abronia&species=bogerti
http://extinctanimals.proboards.com/thread/14075/abronia-bogerti