A New Species of Abronia (Squamata: Anguidae) from a Protected Area in Chiapas, Mexico

A New Species of Abronia (Squamata: Anguidae) from the Sierra de Zongolica of Veracruz, Mexico

“…(II) as defined by the Anexo Normativo I. All three proposed categorizations are consistent with those of many other arboreal species of Abronia (SEMARNAT, 2010; Wilson et al, 2013;Clause et al, 2020).…”

“…We based our diagnosis and comparisons with other taxa on a review of the descriptive literature, including Campbell and Frost (1993) and all subsequent relevant works (Brodie and Savage, 1993;Campbell, 1994;Campbell et al, 1998Campbell et al, , 2016Campbell and Brodie, 1999;McCranie and Wilson, 1999;Flores-Villela and Sa ´nchez-H., 2003;Clause et al, 2020). For ease of comparison, description format largely follows the revisionary treatment by Campbell and Frost (1993).…”

“…To name some of the most prominent groups, this assemblage ranges from frogs in the genera Charadrahyla and Ecnomiohyla, to salamanders in the genera Bolitoglossa and Chiropterotriton, to lizards in the genera Abronia and Anolis. Within the past two decades, four new tree-dwelling species of anguimorph lizards have been proposed for recognition in Mexico (Flores-Villela and Sa ´nchez-H., 2003;Werler and Campbell, 2004;Clause et al, 2020). These recent finds suggest the promise of this habitat type for further discoveries.…”

“…Using extensive morphological evidence, Campbell and Frost (1993) diagnosed six species groups (subgeneric clades) and recognized 24 species of Abronia, all of them known or presumed to be arboreal. Since this monographic treatment, six new arboreal species of Abronia have been described (Campbell, 1994;Campbell et al, 1998Campbell et al, , 2016Campbell and Brodie, 1999;Flores-Villela and Sa ´nchez-H., 2003;Clause et al, 2020). In the first-ever molecular (mitochondrial DNA) phylogenetic analysis of Abronia, involving samples from 11 species, Chippindale et al (1998) subsequently upheld the morphology-based six-clade classification system of Campbell and Frost (1993).…”

The role of Indigenous and Community Conservation Areas in herpetofauna conservation: a preliminary list for Santa Cruz Tepetotutla, Oaxaca Mexico

“…For threatened species, increasing distributional records is of paramount importance to model their potential distribution, to propose conservation zones that effectively cover their areas of occurrence and to understand the role that ICCAs play in their survival in addition to providing baseline information for ecological studies at these sites ( Duran et al 2012 ; Nelson 2012 ; Soto-Huerta and Clause 2017 ; Reyes-Velasco and Ramírez-Chaparro 2019 ; Clause et al 2020 ). However, distributional knowledge of some endemic species in this region is still incomplete.…”