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Squamate (Lizard & Snake) Species List Higher Classification1 Kingdom: Animalia, Phyllum: Chordata, Class: Reptilia, Diapsida, Lepidosauria, Order: Squamata Suborder (sO:) and Family (F:) Scientific Name2 English Name2 sO: Sauria (Lizards) F: Corytophanidae Basiliscus basiliscus Common Basilisk (Casquehead Lizards) F: Dactyloidae (Anoles) Anolis altae High Anole Anolis aquaticus Water Anole Anolis humilis Humble Anole Anolis insignis Decorated Anole Anolis limifrons Slender Anole Anolis pachypus Thick Anole Anolis polylepis Many-scaled Anole Anolis woodi Wood's Anole F: Phrynosomatidae Sceloporus malachiticus Green Spiny Lizard (Phrynosomatid Lizards) F: Scincidae (Skinks) Marisora unimarginata Central American Mabuya sO: Serpentes (Snakes) F: Colubridae (Colubrid Snakes) Bothriechis nubestris5 Talamancan Palm-Pitviper5 Dendrophidion paucicarinatum Cope's Forest Racer Erythrolamprus epinephelus Culebra boba verde Geophis brachycephalus Colombian Earth Snake Geophis hoffmanni Hoffmann's Earth Snake Imantodes cenchoa Blunthead Tree Snake Lampropeltis triangulum Eastern Milksnake Leptodeira sp. Cat-eyed Snakes Ninia psephota Cope's Coffee Snake Spilotes pullatus Yellow Rat Snake Tantilla ruficeps Striped Crowned Snake3 Trimetopon pliolepis Cope's Tropical Ground Snake Trimetopon slevini Slevin's Tropical Ground Snake Urotheca decipiens Pale Ground Snake Urotheca guentheri Gunther's Graceful Brown Snake4 F: Viperidae (Vipers) Bothriechis lateralis Coffee Palm Viper Bothriechis nigroviridis5 Black-speckled Palm Pit Viper5 Cerrophidion godmani Godman's Montane Pit Viper NOTES: 1, Higher classification as found on the Tree of Life Web Project (http://tolweb.org/accessory/Phylogeny_and_Classification_of_Amniotes?acc_id=462). 2, Scientific and English names based on current classifications as found on The Reptile Database (www.reptile-database.org), unless indicated otherwise. 3, English name as found on SnakeDatabase (http://snakedatabase.org/species/tantilla/ruficeps). 4, English name as found on The Encyclopedia of Life (http://eol.org/pages/1055095/overview). 5, Bothriechis nubestris was separated from Bothriechis nigroviridis (an extremely similar species) in July 2016. Prior to that, B. nigroviridis had been identified in the reserve. Photos of some of the individuals of what was thought were B. nigroviridis were identified by the authors of the description account as B. nubestris. As such, while we have confirmed the presence of B. nubestris in the reserve, it is now uncertain whether or not B. nigroviridis is present. Page 1 of 1 Last Updated: September 4, 2016 .

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Other Contributions NATURE NOTES Amphibia: Caudata Ambystoma ordinarium. Predation by a Black-necked Gartersnake (Thamnophis cyrtopsis). The Michoacán Stream Salamander (Ambystoma ordinarium) is a facultatively paedomorphic ambystomatid species. Paedomorphic adults and larvae are found in montane streams, while metamorphic adults are terrestrial, remaining near natal streams (Ruiz-Martínez et al., 2014). Streams inhabited by this species are immersed in pine, pine-oak, and fir for- ests in the central part of the Trans-Mexican Volcanic Belt (Luna-Vega et al., 2007). All known localities where A. ordinarium has been recorded are situated between the vicinity of Lake Patzcuaro in the north-central portion of the state of Michoacan and Tianguistenco in the western part of the state of México (Ruiz-Martínez et al., 2014). This species is considered Endangered by the IUCN (IUCN, 2015), is protected by the government of Mexico, under the category Pr (special protection) (AmphibiaWeb; accessed 1April 2016), and Wilson et al. (2013) scored it at the upper end of the medium vulnerability level. Data available on the life history and biology of A. ordinarium is restricted to the species description (Taylor, 1940), distribution (Shaffer, 1984; Anderson and Worthington, 1971), diet composition (Alvarado-Díaz et al., 2002), phylogeny (Weisrock et al., 2006) and the effect of habitat quality on diet diversity (Ruiz-Martínez et al., 2014). We did not find predation records on this species in the literature, and in this note we present information on a predation attack on an adult neotenic A. ordinarium by a Thamnophis cyrtopsis. On 13 July 2010 at 1300 h, while conducting an ecological study of A.
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Literature Cited in Lizards Natural History Database
Literature Cited in Lizards Natural History database Abdala, C. S., A. S. Quinteros, and R. E. Espinoza. 2008. Two new species of Liolaemus (Iguania: Liolaemidae) from the puna of northwestern Argentina. Herpetologica 64:458-471. Abdala, C. S., D. Baldo, R. A. Juárez, and R. E. Espinoza. 2016. The first parthenogenetic pleurodont Iguanian: a new all-female Liolaemus (Squamata: Liolaemidae) from western Argentina. Copeia 104:487-497. Abdala, C. S., J. C. Acosta, M. R. Cabrera, H. J. Villaviciencio, and J. Marinero. 2009. A new Andean Liolaemus of the L. montanus series (Squamata: Iguania: Liolaemidae) from western Argentina. South American Journal of Herpetology 4:91-102. Abdala, C. S., J. L. Acosta, J. C. Acosta, B. B. Alvarez, F. Arias, L. J. Avila, . S. M. Zalba. 2012. Categorización del estado de conservación de las lagartijas y anfisbenas de la República Argentina. Cuadernos de Herpetologia 26 (Suppl. 1):215-248. Abell, A. J. 1999. Male-female spacing patterns in the lizard, Sceloporus virgatus. Amphibia-Reptilia 20:185-194. Abts, M. L. 1987. Environment and variation in life history traits of the Chuckwalla, Sauromalus obesus. Ecological Monographs 57:215-232. Achaval, F., and A. Olmos. 2003. Anfibios y reptiles del Uruguay. Montevideo, Uruguay: Facultad de Ciencias. Achaval, F., and A. Olmos. 2007. Anfibio y reptiles del Uruguay, 3rd edn. Montevideo, Uruguay: Serie Fauna 1. Ackermann, T. 2006. Schreibers Glatkopfleguan Leiocephalus schreibersii. Munich, Germany: Natur und Tier. Ackley, J. W., P. J. Muelleman, R. E. Carter, R. W. Henderson, and R. Powell. 2009. A rapid assessment of herpetofaunal diversity in variously altered habitats on Dominica.
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