Galapagos Species Database

Taxon category: Accepted

Syn.: Tropidurus albemarlensis Baur, 1890 (GBIF Secretariat, 2021)

Taxon origin: Endemic

Map of specimen collection localities or observation records for this species in our collections database.

Distribution: Endemic to an estimated 4,820 km2 area in the western Galápagos Islan Ecuador. Isabela Lava- Lizards occur on Isabela and Fernandina island, as well as on at least six of their surrounding islets including Cowley, Cuatro hermanos, Las Tintoreras, Marielas Sur, Punta Mangle, and Tortuga.

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• Carrillo, E. Aldás, S., Altamirano, M.A., Ayala-Varela, F., Cisneros-Heredia, D.F., Endara, A., Márquez, C., Morales, M., Nogales-Sornosa, F., Salvador, P., Torres, M.L., Valencia, J., Villamarín-Jurado, F., Yánez-Muñoz, M.H. & Zárate, P. (2005) Lista Roja de los Reptiles del Ecuador. Fundación Novum Milenium, UICN-Sur, UICN-Comité Ecuatoriano, Ministerio de Educación y Cultura, Serie Proyecto PEEPE. Quito, 46 pp.
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• Slevin, J.R. (1935) An account of the reptiles inhabiting the Galápagos Islands. Bulletin New York Zoological Society 38: 1-24.
• Wright, J.W. (1984) The origen and evolution of the lizards of the Galapagos Islands. Terra (March-April): 21-27.
• Van Denburgh, J. Slevin, J.R. (1913) The Galapagoan lizards of the genus Tropidurus, with notes on the iguanas of the genera Conolophus and Amblyrhynchus. Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences 2(1): 133-202, pls. 8-11.
• Couch, L. Stone, P.A., Duszynski, D.W. Snell, H.L. & Snell, H.M. (1996) A survey of the coccidian parasites of reptiles from islands of the Galapagos Archipelago: 1990-1994. Journal of Parasitology 82(3): 432-437.
• Benavides, E. Baum, R., Snell, H.M., Snell, H.L. & Sites, J.W. Jr. (2009) Island biogeography of Galapagos Lava Lizards (Tropiduridae: Microlophus): Species diversity and colonization of the Archipelago. Evolution 63-6: 1606–1626.
• Benavides, E. Baum, R., MCClellan, D. & Sites, J.W .Jr. (2007) Molecular phylogenetics of the Lizard genus Microlophus (Squamata: Tropidurinae): Aligning and retrieving indel signal from nuclear introns. Syst. Biol. 56(5):776–797. ISSN: 1063-5157 print / 1076-836X online DOI: 10.1080/10635150701618527
• Bisconti, M. Landini, W., Bianucci, G., Cantalamessa, G., Carnevale, G. Ragaini, L. & Valleri, G. (2001) Biogeographic relationships of the Galapagos terrestrial biota: parsimony analyses of endemicity based on reptiles, land birds and Scalesia land plants. J. Biogeogr. 28: 495-510.
• Balseca, M.A (2002) Respuesta de la lagartija de lava (Microlophus albermalensis) a la erradicacion de gatos ferales (Felis catus) en la isla Baltra, Galápagos. Tesis, Universidad del Azuay. Tesis, Universidad del Azuay.
• Arteaga, A. Bustamante, L., Vierira, J., Tapia, W., Guayasamin, J.M. (2019) Reptiles of the Galapagos Life on the Enchanted Islands Tropical Herping
• GBIF Secretariat (2021) GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei Accessed via https://www.gbif.org/species/5284517

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