Anaxyrus punctatus

Ramírez-Bautista, Aurelio, Hernández-Salinas, Uriel, Cruz-Elizalde, Raciel, Berriozabal-Islas, Christian, Moreno-Lara, Israel, DeSantis, Dominic L., Johnson, Jerry D., García-Padilla, Elí, Mata-Silva, Vicente & Wilson, Larry David, 2020, The herpetofauna of Hidalgo, Mexico: composition, distribution, and conservation status, Amphibian & Reptile Conservation (e 224) 14 (1), pp. 63-118 : 110-111

Anaxyrus punctatus

Incilius nebulifer Eleutherodactylus cystignathoides Eleutherodactylus guttilatus Scinax staufferi

Smilisca baudinii

Tlalocohyla picta

Trachycephalus vermiculatus Leptodactylus fragilis Leptodactylus melanonotus Hypopachus variolosus Rhinophrynus dorsalis

Scaphiopus couchii Notophthalmus meridionalis Crocodylus moreletii

Basiliscus vittatus

Corytophanes hernandezii Laemanctus serratus

Norops laeviventris

Norops lemurinus

Norops petersii

Norops sericeus

Coleonyx elegans

Ctenosaura acanthura

Sceloporus cyanogenys

Sceloporus serrifer

No. 37. Crotalus scutulatus Kennicott 1861 . The Mohave Rattlesnake occurs “from the Mohave Desert to northern Sonora, and from extreme southern New Mexico and the Big Bend region of Texas southward across the Mexican Plateau to its southern edge” (Heimes 2016: 467). This individual was found San José Atlán , in the municipality of Nopala. Wilson et al. (2013b) calculated its EVS as 11, placing it in the lower portion of the medium vulnerability category, the IUCN assessed it as Least Concern, and SEMARNAT lists this rattlesnake under the category of Special Protection (Pr). Photo by Christian Berriozabal-Islas.

No. 39. Ophryacus smaragdinus Grünwald, Jones , Franz- Chávez, and Ahumada-Carillo 2015. The Emerald Horned Viper is known from “east-central Hidalgo, west-central Veracruz, northeastern Puebla, and north-central Oaxaca ” ( Grünwald et al. 2015: 398). This individual was located at Santa Catarina , in the municipality of Tenango de Doria. Woolrich et al. (2017) indicated its EVS to be 14, placing it at the lower limit of the high vulnerability category. Its conservation status has not been determined by the IUCN and this species is not listed by SEMARNAT. Photo by Ferdinand Torres-Angeles.

No. 38. Crotalus triseriatus (Wagler 1830) . The Central Plateau Dusky Rattlesnake is distributed in Aguascalientes, Ciudad de México, Durango, Estado de México, Guanajuato, Guerrero, Hidalgo, Michoacán, Morelos, Nayarit, Puebla, Querétaro, San Luis Potosí, Tamaulipas, Tlaxcala, Veracruz, and Zacatecas ( Ramírez-Bautista et al. 2014). This individual was secured at Los Reyes, in the municipality of Acaxochitlan. Wilson et al. (2013a) estimated its EVS as 16, placing it in the middle portion of the high vulnerability category. Its conservation status is evaluated as Least Concern by the IUCN, but this species is not listed by SEMARNAT. Photo by Ferdinand Torres-Angeles.

No. 40. Kinosternon herrerai (Stejneger, 1925) . Herrera’s Mud Turtle is distributed “in east-central Mexico, in southern Tamaulipas, eastern San Luis Potosí, northern Veracruz, Hidalgo, and Puebla ” ( Lemos-Espinal and Dixon 2013: 84). This individual was found at Laguna de Atezca, in the municipality of Molango de Escamilla. Wilson et al. (2013a) calculated its EVS as 14, placing it at the lower limit of the high vulnerability category. Its conservation status has been considered as Near Threatened by the IUCN, and is placed in the Special Protection (Pr) category by SEMARNAT. Photo by Christian Berriozabal-Islas.