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Elgaria kingii (Madrean Alligator Lizard; Arizona alligator lizard)

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Wikipedia Abstract

The Madrean alligator lizard (Elgaria kingii ) is a species of anguid lizard endemic to the southwestern United States and adjacent northwestern Mexico.
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Infraspecies

Elgaria kingii ferruginea
Elgaria kingii kingii
Elgaria kingii nobilis (Arizona alligator lizard)

Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  10 grams
Male Weight [3]  10 grams
Habitat Substrate [2]  Cryptic
Litter Size [3]  11
Maximum Longevity [4]  12 years
Reproductive Mode [2]  Oviparous
Snout to Vent Length [3]  3.543 inches (9 cm)

Ecoregions

Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Coronado National Monument National Memorial III 4360 Arizona, United States
Fort Bowie National Historic Site III 1004 Arizona, United States
Montezuma Castle National Monument V 872 Arizona, United States
Sevilleta LTER Site Long Term Ecological Research IV 228335 New Mexico, United States
Tonto National Monument V 1123 Arizona, United States

Biodiversity Hotspots

Name Location Endemic Species Website
Madrean Pine-Oak Woodlands Mexico, United States No
Mesoamerica Belize, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama No

Consumers

Parasitized by 
Cosmocercoides variabilis <Unverified Name>[5]
Mesocestoides tetrathyridium <Unverified Name>[5]
Spauligodon garciaprietoi[5]
Spauligodon goldbergi[5]

Range Map

External References

NatureServe Explorer

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Length–weight allometries in lizards, S. Meiri, Journal of Zoology 281 (2010) 218–226
♦ 2Meiri, Shai (2019), Data from: Traits of lizards of the world: variation around a successful evolutionary design, Dryad, Dataset, https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.f6t39kj
♦ 3Nathan P. Myhrvold, Elita Baldridge, Benjamin Chan, Dhileep Sivam, Daniel L. Freeman, and S. K. Morgan Ernest. 2015. An amniote life-history database to perform comparative analyses with birds, mammals, and reptiles. Ecology 96:3109
♦ 4de Magalhaes, J. P., and Costa, J. (2009) A database of vertebrate longevity records and their relation to other life-history traits. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 22(8):1770-1774
♦ 5Gibson, D. I., Bray, R. A., & Harris, E. A. (Compilers) (2005). Host-Parasite Database of the Natural History Museum, London
Ecoregions provided by World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF). WildFinder: Online database of species distributions, ver. 01.06 Wildfinder Database
Biodiversity Hotspots provided by Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund
Abstract provided by DBpedia licensed under a Creative Commons License
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0