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Elgaria multicarinata (Southern Alligator Lizard)

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Wikipedia Abstract

The Southern alligator lizard (Elgaria multicarinata) is a common species of lizard native to the Pacific coast of North America. It ranges from Baja California to the state of Washington and lives in a variety of habitats including grasslands, chaparral, forests, and even urban areas. In dry climates, it is likely to be found in moist areas or near streams.
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Infraspecies

Elgaria multicarinata ignava (San Martin Alligator Lizard)
Elgaria multicarinata multicarinata (California alligator lizard)
Elgaria multicarinata nana (Los Coronados Alligator Lizard)
Elgaria multicarinata scincicauda (Oregon alligator lizard)
Elgaria multicarinata webbii (San Diego Alligator Lizard)

Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  32 grams
Birth Weight [2]  2 grams
Female Weight [2]  22 grams
Gestation [2]  46 days
Litter Size [2]  12
Litters / Year [2]  2
Maximum Longevity [1]  10 years
Reproductive Mode [3]  Oviparous
Snout to Vent Length [2]  4.331 inches (11 cm)
Habitat Substrate [3]  Cryptic

Ecoregions

Protected Areas

Biodiversity Hotspots

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

Prey / Diet

Pieris rapae (imported cabbageworm)[4]

Predators

Bubo virginianus (Great Horned Owl)[4]
Lampropeltis catalinensis (California kingsnake)[4]
Lampropeltis zonata (California Mountain Kingsnake)[5]

Consumers

Parasitized by 
Baerietta gerrhonoti <Unverified Name>[6]
Physaloptera retusa[6]

Range Map

External References

NatureServe Explorer

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1de 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
♦ 2Nathan 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
♦ 3Meiri, 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
♦ 4Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.
♦ 5Feeding Ecology of the California Mountain Kingsnake, Lampropeltis zonata (Colubridae), Harry W. Greene and Javier A. Rodríguez-Robles, Copeia, 2003(2), pp. 308–314
♦ 6Gibson, 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