Coachella Fringe-toed Lizard
Uma inornata
Cope, 1895
EW-mah — in-or-NAW-taw
SSAR 9th Edition Comments:
Some recent references use the alternative English name “Coachella Valley Fringe-toed Lizard”. Our guidelines for forming standard English names state that names should be as short as possible, and in keeping with those guidelines, we do not always include terms such as “Desert” and “Mountains” with location names such as “Sonoran”, “Chihuahuan”, and “Panamint”. For similar reasons, we do not include “Valley” in the standard English name of this species.
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First instance(s) of published English names:
Plain Sand Lizard (Uma inornata: Van Denburgh, John. 1897. The reptiles of the Pacific Coast and Great Basin: An account of the species known to inhabit California, and Oregon, Washington, Idaho, and Nevada. Occasional Papers of the California Academy of Sciences 5():9-236); Coachella Valley Fringe-toed Lizard (Uma notata inornata: 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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1895
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Cope, Edward D. On the species of Uma and Xantusia. American Naturalist 29(346):938-939
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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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1973
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Pough, F. Harvey. Uma inornata. Catalogue of American Amphibians and Reptiles (126):1-2
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1977
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Adest, Gary Andrew. Genetic relationships in the genus Uma (Iguanidae). Copeia 1977(1):47-52
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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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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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2020
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Derycke, Elizabeth G., Andrew D. Gottscho, Daniel G. Mulcahy, and Kevin De Queiroz. A new cryptic species of fringe-toed lizards from southwestern Arizona with a
revised taxonomy of the Uma notata species complex (Squamata: Phrynosomatidae) Zootaxa 4778(1):67-100
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