Mesaspis moreletii

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Diploglossa

Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Superphylum: Deuterostomia Phylum: Chordata Subphylum: Vertebrata Infraphylum: Gnathostomata Megaclassis: Osteichthyes Cladus: Sarcopterygii Cladus: Rhipidistia Cladus: Tetrapodomorpha Cladus: Eotetrapodiformes Cladus: Elpistostegalia Superclassis: Tetrapoda Cladus: Reptiliomorpha Cladus: Amniota Classis: Reptilia Cladus: Eureptilia Cladus: Romeriida Subclassis: Diapsida Cladus: Sauria Infraclassis: Lepidosauromorpha Superordo: Lepidosauria Ordo: Squamata Cladus: Unidentata, Episquamata Cladus: Toxicofera Subordo: Anguimorpha Infraordo: Neoanguimorpha Superfamilia: Diploglossa

Familia: Anguidae
Subfamilia: Gerrhonotinae
Genus: Mesaspis
Species: Mesaspis moreletii
Subspecies (5): M. m. fulva – M. m. moreletii – M. m. rafaeli – M. m. salvadorensis – M. m. temporalis

Name

• Mesaspis moreletii (Bocourt, 1872)

Syntypes: MNHN 1188, 1267, 1268.

Type locality: “le Peten, ainsi que les forets de pins de la Haute Vera-Paz (Guatemala), à une altitude de 1.440 m.”

Combinations

• Gerrhonotus moreleti Bocourt, 1872: 102 [original combination]
• Mesaspis moreleti — Cope, 1878: 96 [name combination]
• Barisia moreleti — Tihen, 1949: 598 [name combination]

References

Primary references

• Bocourt, M.-F. [1871] 1872. Description de quelques Gerrhonotes nouveaux provenant du Mexique et de l’Afrique Centrale. Nouvelles archives du Muséum d'histoire naturelle 1ère série 7: 101–108. BHL Reference page. 
• Cope, E.D. [1877] 1878. Tenth contribution to the herpetology of tropical America. Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society 17: 85–98. BHL Reference page. 
• Tihen, J.A. 1949. The Genera of Gerrhonotine Lizards. The American Midland Naturalist 41(3): 580–601. DOI: 10.2307/2421775 ; JSTOR Reference page. 

Additional references

• Tihen, J.A. 1949. A review of the lizard genus Barisia. The University of Kansas science bulletin 33(3): 217–254. BHL Reference page. 
• Good, D.A. 1988. Phylogenetic Relationships Among Gerrhonotine Lizards: An Analysis of External Morphology. In University of California Publications in Zoology volume 121. University of California Press: Berkeley & Los Angeles. 139 pp. ISBN 9780520097445 Reference page. 

Links

• Uetz, P. & Hallermann, J. 2024. Mesaspis moreletii. The Reptile Database. Accessed on 24 August 2017.
• Ariano-Sánchez, D., Sunyer, J. & Veselý, M. 2013. IUCN: Mesaspis moreletii  (Least Concern). The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2013: e.T176254A1436880. DOI: 10.2305/IUCN.UK.2013-2.RLTS.T176254A1436880.en

Vernacular names

English: Morelet's Alligator Lizard