NEW ALTITUDINAL RECORD OF Heloderma horridum (WIEGMANN, 1829) (SQUAMATA: HELODERMATIDAE)

Diego Miguel Arenas Moreno; Adán Bautista del Moral; David Alejandro Brindis Badillo

doi:10.22201/fc.25942158e.2022.1.353

NEW ALTITUDINAL RECORD OF Heloderma horridum (WIEGMANN, 1829) (SQUAMATA: HELODERMATIDAE)

Authors

Diego Miguel Arenas Moreno Instituto de Biología, UNAM http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3514-8860
Adán Bautista del Moral Posgrado de Ciencias Biológicas, UNAM
David Alejandro Brindis Badillo Posgrado de Ciencias Biológicas, UNAM

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.22201/fc.25942158e.2022.1.353

Keywords:

Elevation, Lizard, Mexico, Nayarit, Pine-oak forest

Abstract

Heloderma horridum (Beaded Lizard) is a venomous lizard of large size distributed along the Pacific Coast of Mexico from Sinaloa to Chiapas, and in lowlands of the states of Estado de México, Morelos and Puebla (Reiserer et al., 2013). This lizard inhabits mostly in tropical dry forest at lowlands; however, it occasionally occurs in temperate habitats at high elevation up 1800 m (Guadarrama et al., 2019). In this study, we extend the altitudinal range of H. horridum in more than 200 m elevation.

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Published

2022-01-20

How to Cite

Arenas Moreno, D. M., Bautista del Moral, A., & Brindis Badillo, D. A. (2022). NEW ALTITUDINAL RECORD OF Heloderma horridum (WIEGMANN, 1829) (SQUAMATA: HELODERMATIDAE). Revista Latinoamericana De Herpetología, 5(1), 22–24. https://doi.org/10.22201/fc.25942158e.2022.1.353