CHECKLIST OF REPTILES OF MEXICO 209 



Genus ANNIELLA Gray 



Anniella Gray, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 2, vol. 10, 1852, p. 440. 



Genotype. — Anniella pulchra Gray. 



Range. — Southern California and northern Baja California. 



Species. — Two, one with two subspecies. 



KEY TO MEXICAN SPECIES OF ANNIELLA 



1. Rostral sharply pointed in profile; fourth supralabial largest. 



geronimensis (p. 209) 

 Rostral rounded in profile ; second supralabial largest. 



pulchra pulchra (p. 209) 



ANNIELLA GERONIMENSIS Shaw 



Anniella geronimensis Shaw, Trans. San Diego Soc. Nat. Hist., vol. 9, 1940, 

 pp. 225-228, 2 figs. 



Type.—L. M. Klauber No. 7543. 



Type locality. — Isla San Ger6nimo, Baja California. 



Range. — Known only from the type locality. 



ANNIELLA PULCHRA PULCHRA Gray 



Anniella pulchra Gray, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 2, vol. 10, 1852, p. 440. — 



Van Denburgh, Occ. Pap. California Acad. Sci., No. 10, 1922, pp. 465-467, 



pi. 42. 

 Anniella pulchra pulchra, Grinnell and Camp, Univ. California Publ. Zool., 



vol. 17, 1917, p. 170.— Miller, Copeia, 1943, p. 2. 

 Anniella texana Boulenger, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 5, vol. 20, 1887, p. 50 



(Brit. Mus. Nat. Hist.; El Paso, Tex., in error, here restricted to San Diego, 



California) . 



Type. — Brit. Mus. Nat. Hist.; Sir John Richardson collector. 



Type locality. — California, here restricted to San Diego. 



Range. — Pacific slopes of central and southern California, and 

 extreme northern Baja California, west of the desert and the Sierra 

 San Pedro Martir. Recorded in Baja California: San Salado Canon, 

 San Jos6, San Quintin, Los Coronados Islands. 



Subclass Archosauria 



Archosauria Romer, Vertebrate paleontology, 1945, p. 597. 

 Orders. — A single living order, the Loricata, exists. 



Order LORICATA 



Loricata Merrem, Tentamen systematis amphibiorum, 1820, p. 34. 



Families. — Three families exist at the present time, two of which 

 occm' in Mexico. 



