First records of Lepidophyma zongolicum García-Vázquez, Canseco-Márquez & Aguilar-López, 2010 (Squamata, Xantusiidae) from Veracruz, Mexico

By

Contreras-Calvario, Angel I.
Arreortúa, Medardo
Bautista-Del Moral, Adán
Castillo-Juárez, Jorge L.
Avalos-Vela, Rene

Type

Article

Date of Publication

2023-9-18

Original Publication

Check list : journal of species lists and distribution

Volume

19

Series / Issue

Issue: 5

Pages

635--638

Subjects

Altas Montañas region , Biogeography , geographic range extension , Zongolica Night Lizard

Contributed by

Pensoft Publishers

Language

English

Published by

[São Paulo, Brazil] Luís Felipe Toledo 2005-

Identifiers

DOI: https://doi.org/10.15560/19.5.635

 

Abstract

Lepidophyma Duméril, 1851 is the most diverse genus among the nocturnal lizards, with 23 species distributed from the Atlantic and Pacific slopes of Mexico southeast into Panama. Currently, the available information on the ecology and distribution of these species is limited mainly due to their saxicolous habits. Here we present five new state records of Lepidophyma zongolicum from Atoyac, a locality in the state of Veracruz, Mexico. These new data expand the geographic range of this species by 48 km from its nearest previously known occurrence.