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  Publisher description for Library of Congress control number 88024993   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
In this study the author analyzes the phylogenetic relationships among the genera and species of alligator lizards (Squamata: Anguidae: Gerrhonotinae).
The subfamily consists of six monophyletic genera: Coloptychon, Gerrhonotus, Elgaria, Barisia, Mesaspis, and Abronia.
The author reviews the history of gerrhonotine taxonomy, provides a key to, and diagnoses of, all gerrhonotine taxa, and discusses taxonomic and biogeographic implications of gerrhonotine relationships.
www.loc.gov /catdir/description/ucal041/88024993.html   (126 words)

  
 >>>>> Honduras Indómita <<<<<<   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
We found the Mikania stipulifera and the Senecio morazanense.
With Jorge Ferrari we discovered the Norops sminthus, the area’s endemic lizard; the spiney lizard, Sceloporus malachiticus; the elegant Mesaspis moreletii, which, due to its beauty, gained the right to be a screen saver; the venomous brown tamagas, Cerrophidion godmani; and the elusive water tamagas, Thamnophis marcianus.
We listened to the acute singing of the cricket frog, Hyla staufferi and took pictures of the maculata frog, which used to be called pipiens.
www.websonicos.com /hondurasindomitacom/latigra-in/bitacora/bitacora8.html   (413 words)

  
 Tod W. Reeder - SDSU Evolutionary Biology Program
Allan Hebbert (SDSU undergrad) and I are using mtDNA (12S, 16S, and ND4) to infer the phylogenetic relationships among gerrhonotine anguids (=alligator lizards).
Specific goals: 1) interspecific relationships within Elgaria, 2) placement of Elgaria among the other major gerrhonotines groups (i.e., Abronia, Barisia, Gerrhonotus, and Mesaspis), and 3) test Abronia monophyly.
I have been collecting morphological and molecular data in order to infer the phylogenetic relationships among the ~40 squamate families.
www.bio.sdsu.edu /pub/tod/homepage.html   (1784 words)

  
 El Triunfo herps
Conant (1958) writes: "Check for flexible groove than runs along the side from neck to hind leg." This groove is apparent in the photograph.
Jonathan Campbell identifies this as Mesaspis moreleti, the Central American (or Morelet's) Alligator-Lizard.
An interesting new DNA study that included this species (Macey et al.
montereybay.com /creagrus/eltriunfo02herps.html   (1026 words)

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