CHECKLIST OF REPTILES OF MEXICO 101 



PHRVNOSOMA MODESTUM Girard 



Phrynosoma modestum Girard, in Stansbury, Exploration and survey of the 



valley of the Great Salt Lake of Utah, 1852, pp. 361-362 and 365, pi. 6, figs. 



4-8. — Van Denburgh, Occ. Pap. California Acad. Sci., No. 10, 1922, pp. 



430-433, pi. 38. 

 Doliosaurus modestus, Girard, Wilkes United States Exploring Expedition, 



Herpetology, 1858, p. 409. 

 Anota modesta, Cope, Amer. Nat., vol. 30, 1896, p. 1014, 



Type. — U.S.N.M. (?), several cotypes; General Churcliill and "the 

 party under Col. J. D. Graham" collectors. 



Type locality. — The Rio Grande west of San Antonio, Tex. (Churchill), 

 and from between San Antonio and El Paso (Graham) ; here restricted 

 to Las Cruces, N. Mex. 



Range. — Western Texas to Arizona, southward to San Luis Potosl. 

 Reported from Nuevo Leon: Santa Catarina, Pesqueria Grande. 

 Chihuahua: 11 miles south of Ahumada, Rio Santa Maria, Guzman, 

 near Janos, Juarez, Chihuahua (city); Coahuila: 1.5 miles west of 

 Saltillo, Musquiz, Jaral, Castanuelas, Palau, Alamo de Parras, San 

 Pedro, Agua Nueva, Monclova, Buena Vista, Rio Nazas, Cuatro 

 Cienegas, et cetera; Sonora: Nariz Temporal, Los Nogales, Sierra de 

 la Nariz; Durango: between Lerdo and La Goma, Pedriceiia, 5 kilo- 

 meters west of Torre6n, 25 miles north of Bermejillo, 7 miles south of 

 La Loma; Zacatecas: 3 miles west of La Colorada; San Luis Potosi: 

 near Charco Largo (130 kilometers north of San Luis Potosl city). 

 Hacienda La Parada. 



phrynosoma PLATYRHINOS PLATYRHINOS Girard 



Phrynosoma platyrhinos Girard, Stansbury's Explorations and survey of the 



valley of the Great Salt Lake of Utah, 1852, pp. 361, 363-364, pi. 7, figs. 1-5.— 



Van Denburgh, Occ. Pap. California Acad. Sci., No. 10, 1922, pp. 421- 



426, pi. 36. 

 Doliosaurus platyrhinos, Girard, in Wilkes, United States Exploring Expedition, 



Herpetology, 1858, p. 409. 

 Anota plattjrhina, Cope, Ann. Rep. U. S. Nat. Mus., 1898 (1900), p. 443, fig. 81. 

 Phrynosoma platyrhinos platyrhinos, Klauber, Bull. Zool. Soc. San Diego, vol. 14, 



1939, p. 13. 

 Anota calidiarum, Cope, Amer. Nat., vol. 30, No. 358, 1896, p. 333 (Death Valley, 



Calif.). 

 Phrynosoma calidiarum, Ditmars, The reptile book, 1907, p. 157, pi. 46, figs. 10, 



14, pi. 50, fig. 2. 



Type.— V.S.N. M. No. 189?; H. Stansbury collector. 



Type locality. — Great Salt Lake, Utah. 



Range. — Northeastern Baja California; widespread in Nevada, 

 Idaho, Utah, Washington, California, and Arizona. Reported in Baja 

 California: 20 miles north of San Felipe, San Felipe Bay, Pozo, San 

 Agustin, Seven Wells on the Salton River. 



