HERPETOLOGY OF ZUNI MOUNTAINS — GEHLBACH 259 



Accounts of Species 



Adult specimens of Zuni amphibians and reptiles that have been 

 criticaUy examined number about 700. Many more larval amphibians 

 and collections from outside areas also have been studied. Meristic, 

 morphometric, and color-pattern variations are analyzed according 

 to taxonomic criteria set forth by the latest revisers. These criteria 

 are recognizably different, depending on the student of the group 

 (Pimentel, 1958). Their value, in certain cases, may be challenged. 

 In addition, novel characters are described and evaluated with 

 particular regard for environmental and ontogenetic variation. 



For most species, a brief, locally pertinent, nomenclatorial history 

 is followed by taxonomic analysis, data on life history, and a summary 

 of ecological distribution. A more penetrating taxonomic account 

 is included for Ambystoma tigrinum, Cnemidophorus velox, and Diado- 

 phis pundaius in view of certain problems that exist. Less space is 

 devoted to some species because other workers are utihzmg Zuni 

 material or because few specimens or observations actually are 



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Locality records refer to the Zuni herpetofauna exclusively. Most 

 of these records are based on specimens examined, but a few, indicated 

 by asterisks, represent museum data suppHed by colleagues. Com- 

 parative material examined includes only those extralimital specimens 

 used in figures and tables or specifically referred to in the separate 

 accounts and not given full provenance data in these discussions. 

 In some cases newer maps permit more accurate mileages and ele- 

 vations than previously published by Chenoweth (1950), Gehlbach 

 (1956), and Hooper (1941); however, the Zuni region remains to be 

 thoroughly surveyed. . . 



Museum specimens are denoted by the following abbreviations: 



AMNH American Museum of Natural History, New York, N.Y. 



ANSP Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia, Pa. 



BCB Bryce C. Brown (private collection), Waco, Tex. 



BYU Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah 



CCNP Carlsbad Caverns National Park, Carlsbad, N.M. 



CNHM Chicago Natural History Museum, Chicago, 111. 



CU Cornell University, Ithaca, N.Y. 



CWGF Cottonwood Gulch Foundation, Thoreau, N.M. 



ISM lUinois State Museum, Springfield, 111. 



KUMNH Kansas University, Museum of Natural History, Lawrence, Kans. 



LMK Laurence M. Klauber (private collection), San Diego, Calif. 



MCZ Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard Univ., Cambridge, 



Mass. 



MVZ Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, Univ. of California, Berkeley, 



Calif. 

 TNHC University of Texas Natural History Collection, Austin, Tex. 

 UCM University of Colorado Museum, Boulder, Colo. 

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