CERRO BAUL ARBOREAL ALLIGATOR LIZARD
Abronia ornelasi – Campbell 1984
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Cloud forest habitat, 3,000′, Oaxaca
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I have looked briefly for this species on Cerro Baul, but did not find it. In the oak trees I climbed in search of Abronia ornelasi I did however find thousands of large golden ants which cut my time short in said oak trees…
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REFERENCES:
Campbell, J. A. and D. R. Frost. 1993. Anguid Lizards of the Genus Abronia: Revisionary Notes, Descriptions of Four New Species, a Phylogenetic Analysis, and Key. Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist. 216:1-121.