By Committee on Standard English and Scientific Names, Brian I. Crother
This can be the single record of standardized names for North American amphibians and reptiles recommended by way of the 3 significant specialist herpetological societies within the united states; Society for the research of Amphibians and Reptiles; the Herpetologists' League; and the yankee Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists.
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Publ. 9: 1–89 and references therein). However, several species, both uni– and bisexual, have been described for different parts of the taxon formerly known as C. lemniscatus (Cole and Dessauer, 1993, Am. Mus. Novit. , 1997, Am. Mus. Novit. 3207: 1–60), and the introduced population has not yet been associated with one or more of those species. 36 SSAR HERPETOLOGICAL CIRCULAR 29 C. marmoratus Baird and Girard, 1852—Marbled Whiptail Cnemidophorus marmoratus (including C. marmoratus marmoratus and C.
Nat. ), but Collins (1997, SSAR Herpetol. Circ. 25) treated it as a separate species, presumably because of its geographic separation and morphological diagnosability relative to the other subspecies of C. inornatus recognized by Wright and op. ). C. burti Taylor, 1938—Canyon Spotted Whiptail C. b. stictogrammus Burger, 1950—Giant Spotted Whiptail C. dixoni Scudday, 1973—Gray Checkered Whiptail (unisexual) Cnemidophorus dixoni was treated as a synonym of C. tesselatus by Maslin and Secoy (1986, Contrib.
Anthracinus pluvialis), Rodgers and Fitch (1947, Univ. California Pub. Zool. 48: 169–220; description of E. gilberti cancellosus and treatment of E. skiltonianus brevipes as a synonym of E. gilberti gilberti), Smith and Slater (1949, Trans. Kansas Acad. Sci. 52: 438–448; description of E. septentrionalis pallidus), McConkey (1957, Bull. Florida St. Mus. (Biol. ) 2: 13–23; description of E. egregius similis), Lowe and Shannon (1954, Herpetologica 10: 185–187; description of E. gilberti arizonensis), Lowe (1955b, Herpetologica 11: 233–235; treatment of E.