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nge of _Caiman crocodilus fuscus_. ~Bipes canaliculatus~ Bonnaterre _Bipes canaliculatus_ Bonnaterre, Encyclopedie methodique, Erpetologie, p. 68, 1789.--Mexico. Type locality restricted to Mexcala, Guerrero, Mexico, by Smith and Taylor (1950b:39). Duges (1896:480) reported this species from Morelia, Michoacan. Smith and Taylor (1950b:39), who recorded the species from three localities in the Balsas Basin in Guerrero, rejected Duges' record. I, too, am unwilling to accept Duges' record. Nevertheless, the species probably occurs throughout much of the Balsas Basin. This idea is strengthened by comments made by Storm (1939:342): "The last hard drop, that afternoon, was down the great Cerro de los Cajones [southwest of Tacambaro], and here in the upper forest we came upon... a lizard with front legs and none behind ... the animal with hands and no feet that senor Smith [Hobart M. Smith] was seeking!... They're named _Bipes caniculatus_ (_sic._)." ~Coleonyx elegans nemoralis~ Klauber _Coleonyx elegans nemoralis_ Klauber, Trans. San Diego Soc. Nat. Hist., 10:195, March 9, 1949.--Paso del Rio, Colima, Mexico. Klauber (1945:199) and Smith and Taylor (1950b:43) reported this lizard from the coastal lowlands of Colima and Guerrero. Davis and Smith (1953:101) reported it from 8 kilometers northeast of Temilpa, Morelos, in the upper Balsas Basin. Specimens of this lizard have been collected infrequently; the few locality records and limited ecological data indicate that it inhabits dense scrub forest and tropical semi-deciduous forest. _Coleonyx elegans nemoralis_ is to be expected on the coastal lowlands, the seaward foothills of the Sierra de Coalcoman, and on the lower slopes of the Cordillera Volcanica along the northern edge of the Tepalcatepec Valley. ~Phrynosoma orbiculare orbiculare~ (Linnaeus) _Lacerta obricularis_ Linnaeus, Systema naturae, ed. 12, 1:1062, 1789.--Mexico (by inference). Type locality restricted to Mexico, Districto Federal, by Smith and Taylor (1950b:97). _Phrynosoma orbiculare orbiculare_, Smith, Trans. Kansas Acad. Sci., 37:290, 1934. Gadow (1905:213) inferred that _Phrynosoma orbiculare_ occurred at elevations of more than 3000 feet in Michoacan. There are no specimens of this species known from Gadow's collections made in Michoacan. Smith and Taylor (1950b:98) apparently accepted Gadow's statement and record
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