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Mesaspis moreletii (Morelet's Alligator Lizard)

Synonyms: Barisia moreletii rafaeli; Barisia moreletii temporalis

Wikipedia Abstract

Mesaspis moreletii, commonly known as Morelet's alligator lizard, is a species of lizard in the family Anguidae. The species is endemic to Central America.
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Attributes

Habitat Substrate [1]  Terrestrial
Reproductive Mode [1]  Viviparous

Ecoregions

Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Celaque National Park II 66197 Honduras  
Cusuco National Park II 44047 Honduras  
Merendón   Honduras      
Montaña Verde Wildlife Refuge IV 20564 Honduras  
Opalaca Biological Reserve IV 37315 Honduras  

Biodiversity Hotspots

Name Location Endemic Species Website
Mesoamerica Belize, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama No

Range Map

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External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Meiri, 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
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