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Aspidoscelis deppii

{{Short description|Species of lizard}}

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| image = Aspidoscelis deppii.jpeg

| status = LC

| status_system = IUCN3.1

| status_ref = Solórzano A, Flores-Villela O, Chaves G, Lamar W (2013). "Aspidoscelis deppii ". The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2013: e.T178714A1542973. https://doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2013-2.RLTS.T178714A1542973.en. Downloaded on 11 June 2019.

| genus = Aspidoscelis

| species = deppii

| authority = (Wiegmann, 1834)

| synonyms = *Cnemidophorus deppii
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  • Cnemidophorus deppei [sic]
    {{small|Gadow, 1906}}
    (ex errore)
  • Aspidoscelis deppii
    {{small|— Reeder et al., 2002}}

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Aspidoscelis deppii, known commonly as the blackbelly racerunner, is a species of lizard in the family Teiidae. The species is native to Central America and southern Mexico. There are three recognized subspecies.

Etymology

The specific name, deppii, is in honor of German naturalist Ferdinand Deppe.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}}. (Aspidoscelis deppei, p. 70).

Geographic range

A. deppii is found in Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico (Chiapas, Guerrero, Jalisco, Michoacán, Morelos, Oaxaca), and Nicaragua.{{NRDB species|genus=Aspidoscelis|species=deppii|accessdate=10 June 2019}}

Habitat

The preferred natural habitats of A. deppii are forest, shrubland, grassland, and rocky areas, at altitudes of {{convert|0|-|1,200|m|ft|abbr=on}}.

Reproduction

A. deppii is oviparous.

Subspecies

Three subspecies are recognized as being valid, including the nominotypical subspecies.

Nota bene: A trinomial authority in parentheses indicates that the subspecies was originally described in a genus other than Aspidoscelis.

References

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Further reading

  • Duellman WE, Wellman J (1960). "A Systematic Study of the Lizards of The Deppei [sic] Group (Genus Cnemidophorus) in Mexico and Guatemala". Miscellaneous Publications, Museum of Zoology, University of Michigan (111): 1-80 + Plate I. (Cnemidophorus deppei infernalis, new subspecies, pp. 32–35, 75, Figures 11 D-F + Plate I, top).
  • Martínez-Fonseca JG, Reid FA, Sunyer J (2016). "Aspidoscelis deppii (Wiegmann, 1834). Diet". Mesoamerican Herpetology 3 (2): 480-481.
  • Smith HM, Brandon RA (1968). "Data Nova Herpetologica Mexicana ". Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Science 71 (1): 49-61. (Cnemidophorus deppei schizophorus, new subspecies, p. 55).
  • Wiegmann AFA (1834). Herpetologia Mexicana, seu descriptio amphibiorum Novae Hispaniae, quae itineribus comitis de Sack, Ferdinandi Deppe et Chr. Guil. Schiede in Museum Zoologicum Berolinense pervenerunt. Pars prima, saurorum species amplectens. Adiecto systematis saurorum prodromo, additisque multis in hunc amphibiorum ordinem observationibus. Berlin: C.G. Lüderitz. vi + 54 pp. + Plates I-X. (Cnemidophorus deppii, new species, p. 28). (in Latin).

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deppii

Category:Reptiles described in 1834

Category:Taxa named by Arend Friedrich August Wiegmann

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