Elgaria

Familia: Anguidae
Subfamilia: Gerrhonotinae
Genus:
Species (7): E. cedrosensis – E. coerulea – E. kingii – E. multicarinata – E. panamintina – E. paucicarinata – E. velazquezi

Elgaria Gray, 1838: 390

• Type species: Cordylus (Gerrhonotus) multicarinatus Blainville, 1835, by subsequent designation by Tihen (1949: 593).

• Trachypeltis Fitzinger, 1843: 21 [as subgenus]
  • Type species: Gerrhonotus multicarinatus Blainville, 1835, by original designation.

• Gray, J.E. 1838. Catalogue of the slender-tongued saurians, with descriptions of many new genera and species. Part 2. Annals of Natural History. Series 1 1(5): 388–394. DOI: 10.1080/00222933809512320 ; BHL Reference page. 
• Fitzinger, L. 1843. Systema Reptilium. Fasciculus primus. Amblyglossae. Braumüller et Seidel: Wien. vi + 106 pp. BHL Reference page. 
• Tihen, J.A. 1949. The Genera of Gerrhonotine Lizards. The American Midland Naturalist 41(3): 580–601. DOI: 10.2307/2421775 ; JSTOR Reference page. 

• Fitch, H.S. 1938. A Systematic Account of the Alligator Lizards (Gerrhonotus) in the Western United States and Lower California. American Midland Naturalist 20(2): 381–424. DOI: 10.2307/2420638 ; JSTOR Reference page. 
• Stebbins, R.C. 1958. A new alligator lizard from the Panamint Mountains, Inyo County, California. American Museum Novitates 1883: 1–27. hdl: 2246/4672 Reference page. 
• Waddick, J.W. & Smith, H.M. 1974. The significance of the scale characteristics in evaluation of the lizard genera Gerrhonotus, Elgaria, and Barisia. Great Basin Naturalist 34(4): 257–266. DOI: 10.2307/41711438 ; JSTOR Reference page. 
• Good, D.A. 1988. Phylogenetic Relationships Among Gerrhonotine Lizards: An Analysis of External Morphology. In University of California Publications in Zoology volume 121. University of California Press: Berkeley & Los Angeles. 139 pp. ISBN 9780520097445 Reference page. 
• Good, D.A. 1988. Allozyme variation and phylogenetic relationships among the species of Elgaria (Squamata: Anguidae). Herpetologica 44(2): 154–162. DOI: 10.2307/3892512 ; JSTOR Reference page. 
• Grismer, L.L. 1988. Geographic Variation, Taxonomy, and Biogeography of the Anguid Genus Elgaria (Reptilia: Squamata) in Baja California, México. Herpetologica 44(4): 431–439. DOI: 10.2307/3892409 ; JSTOR Reference page. 
• Grismer, L.L. & Hollingsworth, B.D. 2001. A taxonomic review of the endemic Alligator Lizard Elgaria paucicarinata (Anguidae: Squamata) of Baja California, México with a description of a new species. Herpetologica 57(4): 488–496. DOI: 10.2307/3893055 ; JSTOR Reference page. 
• Feldman, C.R. & Spicer, G.S. 2006. Comparative phylogeography of woodland reptiles in California: repeated patterns of cladogenesis and population expansion. Molecular Ecology 15(8): 2201–2222. DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-294X.2006.02930.x Reference page. 
• Leavitt, D.H., Marion, A.B., Hollingsworth, B.D. & Reeder, T.W. 2017. Multilocus phylogeny of alligator lizards (Elgaria, Anguidae): Testing mtDNA introgression as the source of discordant molecular phylogenetic hypotheses. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 110: 104–121. DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2017.02.010 Reference page. 

• Uetz, P., Freed, P., Aguilar, R., F. Reyes, J. Kudera & Hošek, J. (eds.) 2025. Elgaria . The Reptile Database. Accessed on 7 September 2020.

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