Abronia smithi

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| name = Abronia smithi

| image = Smith's Arboreal Alligator Lizard imported from iNaturalist photo 60182004 on 31 March 2023.jpg

| status = LC

| status_system = IUCN3.1

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| status2 = CITES_A2

| status2_system = CITES

| status2_ref = {{Cite web|title=Appendices {{!}} CITES|url=https://cites.org/eng/app/appendices.php|access-date=2022-01-14|website=cites.org}}

| genus = Abronia (lizard)

| species = smithi

| authority = Campbell & Frost, 1993

| range_map = Abronia smithi distribution.png

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Abronia smithi is a species of lizard in the family Anguidae. Known by the common name Smith's arboreal alligator lizard, the species is endemic to the state of Chiapas in Mexico.Campbell JA, Muñoz-Alonso A (2007). [http://www.iucnredlist.org/details/63690/0 Abronia smithi.] The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2014.3. Downloaded on 26 March 2015.

Taxonomy and etymology

A. smithi was described in 1993 by Jonathan A. Campbell and Darrel Frost, and named after the American herpetologist Hobart Muir Smith.{{cite journal|last1=Campbell|first1=Jonathan A.|last2=Frost|first2=Darrel R.|title=Anguid lizards of the genus Abronia: revisionary notes, descriptions of four new species, a phylogenetic analysis, and key|journal=Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History|date=1993|volume=216|pages=1–121|hdl=2246/823|url=http://digitallibrary.amnh.org/dspace/handle/2246/823|access-date=2015-03-26|archive-date=2015-04-02|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150402132609/http://digitallibrary.amnh.org/dspace/handle/2246/823|url-status=dead}}{{cite book |last1 = Beolens | first1 = Bo | last2 = Watkins | first2 = Michael | last3 = Grayson | first3 = Michael |name-list-style=amp |title=The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0F758vNQ0UUC |date=6 September 2011 |publisher=JHU Press |isbn=978-1-4214-0227-7|pages=xiii + 296 pp |no-pp = y}} (Abronia smithi, p. 247).

Habitat and geographic range

A. smithi is an arboreal species which lives in the canopies of large trees in the cloud forests of the Sierra Madre de Chiapas. Its elevational range is {{convert|1800|–|2800|m|abbr=on}} above sea level.

Reproduction

A. smithi is viviparous.

Conservation status

A. smithi is only known to exist in a few localities in Chiapas. It is uncommon and may be threatened by deforestation, but it occurs in protected habitat, including the El Triunfo Biosphere Reserve.

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