Abronia fuscolabialis

Appearance

The scientific name was chosen in reference to the darker pattern of scales along the lips and chin that distinguish Abronia fuscolabialis from its congeners. Fuscolabialis comes from the Latin fuscus, meaning dark, and labialis, pertaining to the lips.

Description The Mount Zempoaltepec arboreal alligator lizard was first described by the American herpetologist Joseph Anton Tihen as Gerrhonotus fuscolabialis based on two specimens collected from Mt.

Range and habitat

The Mount Zempoaltepec arboreal alligator lizard is a canopy-dwelling lizard endemic to the Northern Sierra mountains of Oaxaca, Mexico. Specimens have been collected from cloud forests and pine-oak forests in Sierra Mixe and Sierra Juárez at elevations between 2160 and 2440m above sea level. Abronia fuscolabialis, the Mount Zempoaltepec arboreal alligator lizard, is an endangered arboreal alligator lizard endemic to Oaxaca, Mexico.

Pins are Wikidata “endemic to” fields. Orange dots, when present, are GBIF occurrence tiles — survey bias included.

Breeding

Other members of the genus Arborea are diurnal and give birth to live young.

In crisis

The Mount Zempoaltepec arboreal alligator lizard is considered to be endangered by the IUCN as the species' known range consists of less than 5,000km2.

Abronia fuscolabialis is Endangered on this catalog because that is the IUCN category stored on Wikidata. Confirm the official criteria and any later count on iucnredlist.org.

Sources

Written for this catalog from the English Wikipedia article on Abronia fuscolabialis, Wikidata item Q2821959. Family and order context is original field-guide writing about the group, not a copied assessment of this one species. Wikipedia text is CC BY-SA. Not an IUCN assessment. Counts, when quoted, can change — confirm them on the recovery programme and on iucnredlist.org.