Check List 19(5): 635-638, doi: 10.15560/19.5.635

First records of Lepidophyma zongolicum García-Vázquez, Canseco-Márquez & Aguilar-López, 2010 (Squamata, Xantusiidae) from Veracruz, Mexico

Angel I. Contreras-Calvario^‡§, Medardo Arreortúa^‡, Adán Bautista-del Moral^|, Jorge L. Castillo-Juárez^¶, Rene Avalos-Vela^¶

‡ Instituto Politécnico Nacional, Centro Interdisciplinario de Investigación para el Desarrollo Integral Regional (CIIDIR), Oaxaca, Mexico§ Predios e Instalaciones que Manejan Vida Silvestre (PIMVS), Veracruz, Mexico| Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, México, Mexico¶ Universidad Veracruzana, Veracruz, Mexico

Corresponding author: Adán Bautista-del Moral ( bautistadelmorala@gmail.com )

Academic editor: Ricardo Palacios Aguilar

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Citation: Contreras-Calvario AI, Arreortúa M, Bautista-del Moral A, Castillo-Juárez JL, Avalos-Vela R (2023) First records of Lepidophyma zongolicum García-Vázquez, Canseco-Márquez & Aguilar-López, 2010 (Squamata, Xantusiidae) from Veracruz, Mexico. Check List 19(5): 635-638. https://doi.org/10.15560/19.5.635

Abstract

Lepidophyma Duméril, 1851 is the most diverse genus among the nocturnal lizards, with 23 species distributed from the Atlantic and Pacific slopes of Mexico southeast into Panama. Currently, the available information on the ecology and distribution of these species is limited mainly due to their saxicolous habits. Here we present five new state records of Lepidophyma zongolicum from Atoyac, a locality in the state of Veracruz, Mexico. These new data expand the geographic range of this species by 48 km from its nearest previously known occurrence.

Keywords

Altas Montañas region, biogeography, geographic range extension, Zongolica Night Lizard