Abronia bogerti

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| name = Abronia bogerti

| status = DD

| status_system = IUCN3.1

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| status2 = CITES_A2

| status2_system = CITES

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| genus = Abronia (lizard)

| species = bogerti

| authority = Tihen, 1954

| range_map = Abronia bogerti range.png

| range_map_caption = Geographic range of Abronia bogerti

| range_map_alt = Map of southern Mexico and Guatemala showing a highlighted range (in red) covering a small area in the center of the Isthmus of Tehunatepec

| synonyms = *Abronia bogerti
{{small|Tihen, 1954}}

Abronia (Scopaeabronia) bogerti
{{small|— Campbell & Frost, 1993}}
Abronia bogerti
{{small|— Liner, 1994}}

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Abronia bogerti, known by the common name Bogert's arboreal alligator lizard, is a species of lizard in the family Anguidae. The species is endemic to Mexico.Campbell JA (2007). [http://www.iucnredlist.org/details/63674/0 Abronia bogerti]. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2014.3. Downloaded on 04 April 2015.

Etymology

The specific name, bogerti, is in honor of American herpetologist Charles Mitchill Bogert.Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. {{ISBN|978-1-4214-0135-5}}. (Abronia bogerti, p. 30).

Geographic range

A. bogerti is indigenous to eastern Oaxaca, Mexico. A single specimen, the holotype, of A. bogerti was collected in 1954, and it was not seen again until 2000, at which time a second specimen was photographed.Bille T (2001). "Ein zweites Exemplar von Abronia bogerti Tihen, 1954 aus Oaxaca, Mexiko, mit Bemerkungen zur Variation der Art (Sauria: Anguidae) [= A second specimen of Abronia bogerti Tihen, 1954 from Oaxaca, Mexico, with remarks on the variation of the species (Sauria: Anguidae)]". Salamandra 37 (4): 205–210. (in German, with an abstract in English). The type locality is "north of Niltepec, between Cerro Atravesado and Sierra Madre, Oaxaca".

Behavior

A. bogerti is largely arboreal.

Reproduction

A. bogerti is viviparous.{{EMBL species|genus=Abronia|species=bogerti}} www.reptile-database.org.

Conservation status

Because the species A. bogerti was collected in the canopy of the forest, it is believed that deforestation and ongoing crop and livestock farming pose the largest threats to its survival. Mexican law protects the lizard.