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Frost's arboreal alligator lizard
Conservation status

Critically Endangered  (IUCN 3.1)
CITES Appendix I (CITES)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Squamata
Family: Anguidae
Genus: Abronia
Species: A. frosti
Binomial name
Abronia frosti
Campbell, Sasa, M. Acevedo & Mendelson, 1998

Frost's arboreal alligator lizard (Abronia frosti) is a species of lizard in the family Anguidae. The species is endemic to Guatemala in Central America.

Etymology

The specific name, frosti, is in honor of American herpetologist Darrell R. Frost.

Geographic range

A. frosti is found in one isolated location in Huehuetenango Department, Guatemala.

Habitat

The preferred natural habitat of A. frosti, is forest, an altitudes of 2,800–2,900 m (9,200–9,500 ft).

Description

A. frosti can be distinguished from all other Guatemalan species of Abronia by its lack of protuberant supra-aurical spines.

Reproduction

A. frosti is ovoviviparous.

References

  1. ^ Ariano-Sánchez D, Acevedo M, Johnson J (2013). "Abronia frosti ". The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2013. IUCN: e.T29479A2790394. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2013-2.RLTS.T29479A2790394.en. Retrieved 6 January 2018.
  2. "Appendices | CITES". cites.org. Retrieved 2022-01-14.
  3. Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. ISBN 978-1-4214-0135-5. (Abronia frosti, p. 95).
  4. ^ Abronia frosti at the Reptarium.cz Reptile Database. Accessed 19 August 2014.

Further reading

  • Ariano-Sánchez D, Torres-Almazán M, Urbina-Aguilar A (2011). "Rediscovery of Abronia frosti (Sauria: Anguidae) from a Cloud Forest in Cuchumatanes Highlands in Northwestern Guatemala: Habitat Characterization and Conservation Status". Herpetological Review 42 (2): 196–198.
  • Campbell JA, Sasa M, Acevedo M, Mendelson JR III (1998). "A new species of Abronia (Squamata: Anguidae) from the High Chuchumatanes of Guatemala". Herpetologica 54 (2): 221–234. (Abronia frosti, new species).
  • Köhler G (2000). Reptilien und Amphibien Mittelamerikas. Band 1. Krokodile, Schildkröen, Echsen. Offenbach, Germany: Herpeton Verlag. 158 pp. ISBN 3-9806214-0-5. (Abronia frosti, p. 38). (in German).


Taxon identifiers
Abronia frosti


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