A. bogerti is indigenous to eastern Oaxaca, Mexico. A single specimen, the holotype, of A. bogerti was collected in 1954, and it was not seen again until 2000, at which time a second specimen was photographed.[5] The type locality is "north of Niltepec, between Cerro Atravesado and Sierra Madre, Oaxaca".[3]
Because the species A. bogerti was collected in the canopy of the forest, it is believed that deforestation and ongoing crop and livestockfarming pose the largest threats to its survival. Mexican law protects the lizard.
References
^ abcCampbell JA (2007). Abronia bogerti. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2014.3. Downloaded on 04 April 2015.
^Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. ISBN978-1-4214-0135-5. (Abronia bogerti, p. 30).
^Bille T (2001). "Ein zweites Exemplar von Abronia bogerti Tihen, 1954 aus Oaxaca, Mexiko, mit Bemerkungen zur Variation der Art (Sauria: Anguidae) [= A second specimen of Abronia bogerti Tihen, 1954 from Oaxaca, Mexico, with remarks on the variation of the species (Sauria: Anguidae)]". Salamandra37 (4): 205–210. (in German, with an abstract in English).
Further reading
Campbell JA, Frost DR (1993). "Anguid lizards of the genus Abronia: revisionary notes, descriptions of four new species, a phylogenetic analysis, and key". Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History216: 1–121.
Mata-Silva, Vicente; Johnson, Jerry D.; Wilson, Larry David; Gárcia-Paqdilla, Elí (2015). "The herpetofauna of Oaxaca, Mexico: composition, physiographic distribution, and conservation status". Mesoamerican Herpetology2 (1): 6-62.
Tihen JA (1954). "Gerrhonotine Lizards Recently Added to the American Museum Collection, with Further Revision of the Genus Abronia ". American Museum Novitates (1687): 1-26. (Abronia bogerti, new species, pp. 3–7, Figure 3).
