Abronia chiszari

Abronia chiszari
Conservation status
	; Endangered (IUCN 3.1)
	CITES Appendix II (CITES)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Reptilia
Order:	Squamata
Suborder:	Anguimorpha
Family:	Anguidae
Genus:	Abronia
Species:	A. chiszari
Binomial name
	Abronia chiszari; H.M. Smith & R.B. Smith, 1981
Synonyms
	Abronia chiszari; H.M. Smith & R.B. Smith, 1981; Abronia (Scopaeabronia) chiszari; — Campbell & Frost, 1993; Abronia chiszari; — Liner, 1994;

Last updated October 01, 2025

Abronia chiszari, Chiszar's arboreal alligator lizard, is an endangered species of arboreal alligator lizard in the family Anguidae. The species is native to east-central Mexico.

Taxonomy

A. chiszari was described in 1981 by Hobart Muir Smith and Rozella Blood Smith, his wife.

Etymology

The specific name, chiszari, is in honor of American herpetologist David Chiszar.^[4]

Geographic range

A. chiszari is only found on the slopes of Volcano Santa Marta, in the Sierra de los Tuxtlas, Veracruz, Mexico, between elevations of 360 to 800 m (1,180 to 2,620 ft).^[1]

Habitat

The preferred natural habitat of A. chiszar is forest.^[1]

Reproduction

A. chiszari is viviparous.^[3]

References

1 2 3 Lopez-Luna, M.; Flores-Villela, O.; Frost, D.R. (2007). "Abronia chiszari ". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species . 2007 e.T63675A12706244. doi: 10.2305/IUCN.UK.2007.RLTS.T63675A12706244.en . Retrieved 21 November 2022.
↑ "Appendices | CITES". cites.org. Archived from the original on 2007-02-03. Retrieved 2022-01-14.
1 2 Abronia chiszari at the Reptarium.cz Reptile Database . Accessed 21 November 2022.
↑ Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. ISBN 978-1-4214-0135-5. (Abronia chiszari, pp. 53-54).

Campbell JA, Frost DR (1993). "Anguid lizards of the genus Abronia: revisionary notes, descriptions of four new species, a phylogenetic analysis, and key". Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History (216): 1–121. (in English, with an abstract in Spanish).
Clause, Adam G.; Schmidt-Ballardo, Walter; Solano-Zavaleta, Israel; Jiménez-Velázquez, Gustavo; Heimes, Peter (2016). "Morphological Variation and Natural History in the Enigmatic Lizard Clade Scopaeabronia (Sguamata: Anguidae: Abronia)". Herpetological Review47 (4): 536–543.
Smith HM, Smith RB (1981). "Another Epiphytic Alligator Lizard (Abronia) from Mexico". Bulletin of the Maryland Herpetological Society17 (2): 51–60. (Abronia chiszari, new species).

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[IUCN-1] 1 2 3 Lopez-Luna, M.; Flores-Villela, O.; Frost, D.R. (2007). "Abronia chiszari ". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species . 2007 e.T63675A12706244. doi: 10.2305/IUCN.UK.2007.RLTS.T63675A12706244.en . Retrieved 21 November 2022.

[2] "Appendices | CITES". cites.org. Archived from the original on 2007-02-03. Retrieved 2022-01-14.

[RDB-3] 1 2 Abronia chiszari at the Reptarium.cz Reptile Database . Accessed 21 November 2022.

[4] Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. ISBN 978-1-4214-0135-5. (Abronia chiszari, pp. 53-54).

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