Holbrookia elegans
Bocourt, 1874 in Duméril, Mocquard, and Bocourt, 1870-1909
hole-bruk-EE-uh — el-EH-ganz
SSAR 9th Edition Comments:
Recent work by Mulcahy et al. (2022, PLoS One 17: e0264930) corroborates the findings of Blaine (2008, Ph.D. dissertation, Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri ) of substantial mtDNA sequence divergence between H. e. thermophila and H. e. elegans, although a large sampling gap remains, and that H. e. pulchra is not separate from H. e. thermophila, as proposed previously by Duellman (1955, Occasional Papers of the Museum of Zoology University of Michigan 569: 1–14).
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Province/State Distribution:
USA: Arizona
First instance(s) of published English names:
Mexican Earless Lizard (Holbrookia elegans: Van Denburgh, John. 1922. The Reptiles of Western North America: An Account of the Species Known to Inhabit California and Oregon, Washinton, Idaho, Utah, Nevada, Arizona, British Columbia, Sonora, and Lower California. Volume I. Lizards. California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco. 556pp.); Western Earless Lizard (Holbrookia maculata elegans: Schmidt, Karl P. 1953. A Check List of North American Amphibians and Reptiles. 6th Edition. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, Illinois. 280pp.);
Catalog of American Amphibians and Reptiles
The Reptile Database
GenBank
USGS - Nonindigenous Aquatic Species Database
Selected References:
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1874
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Bocourt, Marie F. Etudes sur les reptiles. [Studies on reptiles.] Pages 113–192 in Duméril, Mocquard, and Bocourt, 1870-1909. Recherches Zoologiques pour servir a l'Histoire de Ia Faune de l'Amérique Centrale et du Mexique. Mission Scientifique au Mexique et dans l'Amér. Livraison 3. [ Zoological Research to be used in the History of the Fauna of Central America and Mexico. Scientific Mission to Mexico and America. Delivery 3]. Imprimerie Impériale [Imperial Printing Office], Paris, France. pp.
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1935
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Smith, Hobart M. Notes on some Mexican lizards of the genus Holbrookia, with a description of a new species. University of Kansas Science Bulletin 22(8):185-201
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1954
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Axtell, Ralph W. The systematic relationships of certain lizards in two species groups of the genus Holbrookia. Thesis. University of Texas, Austin. pp.
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1958
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Axtell, Ralph W. A monographic revision of the Iguanid genus Holbrookia. Dissertation. University of Texas, Austin. pp.
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1958
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Norris, Kenneth Stafford. The evolution and systematics of the iguanid genus Uma and its relation to the evolution of other North American desert reptiles. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 114(3):247-326
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1963
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Clarke, Robert F. The comparative behavior of the iguanid lizards, Callisaurus, Cophosaurus, and Holbrookia. Dissertation. University of Oklahoma, Norman. 136pp.
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1965
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Clarke, Robert F. An ethological study of the iguanid genera Callisaurus, Cophosaurus, and Holbrookia. Emporia State Research Studies 13(4):1-66
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1989
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de Queiroz, Kevin. Morphological and biochemical evolution in the sand lizards. Dissertation. University of California, Berkeley. 491pp.
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1993
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Wiens, John J. Phylogenetic relationships of phrynosomatid lizards and monophyly of the Sceloporus group. Copeia 1993(2):287-299
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2013
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Lambert, Shea M. and John J. Wiens. Evolution of viviparity: A phylogenetic test of the cold-climate hypothesis in Phrynosomatid lizards. Evolution 67(9):2614–2630
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2016
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Flores-Villela, Oscar, Roger Bour, and Kraig Adler. Publication history of the Mission scientifique au Mexique et
dans l’Amérique Centrale, reptiles and amphibians. Revista Mexicana de Biodiversidad 87(2016):1162–1167
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2017
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Bezy, Robert L., Philip C. Rosen, Thomas R. Van Devender, and Erik F. Enderson. Southern distributional limits of the Sonoran Desert herpetofauna
along the mainland coast of northwestern Mexico Mesoamerican Herpetology 4(1):138-167
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