Callisaurus draconoides rhodostictus Cope Revived for the Western Fringe-Footed Lizard, Callisaurus draconoides gabbi Cope
Smith HM and Cochran DM. 1956. Callisaurus draconoides rhodostictus Cope Revived for the Western Fringe-Footed Lizard, Callisaurus draconoides gabbi Cope. Herpetologica. 12(2):153-154
Callisaurus rhodostictus Cope (Amer. Nat., vol. 30, Dec. 1896, pp. 1049-1050) has generally been regarded as a synonym of C. crinitus Cope (=C. draconoides crinitus) named and described on page 1049 of the same article as the prededing. Assuming that 'Baja California' was the only locality information available, and that C. rohodostictus had correctly been allocated to the synonymy of C. draconoides crinitus, Smith and Taylor (Bull. U.S. Nat. Mus., No. 199, 1950, p. 87) restricted the type locality of C. rhodostictus to Santo Domingo, a well-established locality of occurrence of C.d. crinitus. This restriction is nullified by the discovery that the actual locality data for the types are available.
- Type
- Journal Article
- Authors
- Smith, Hobart; Cochran, Doris
- Units
- ORPI
- Keywords
- Amphibians, Reptiles