Texas Alligator Lizard

Continent: Middle-America North-America
Distribution: S USA (Texas), Mexico (Coahuila, E Chihuahua, Durango, Zacatecas, San Luis Potosi, Aguascalientes, Hidalgo [HR 35: 187], Jalisco, Tamaulipas); Guatemala (fide KÖHLER 2000) austrinus: Chiapas.
Type locality: 3,200 meters elevation on Cerro Malé, Porvenir, Chiapas. liocephalus: Central plateau region, from Guanajuato to Guerrero and Oaxaca. Distrito Federal, México, Puebla, Morelos.
Type locality: Mexico. Restricted to Tlapancingo, Oaxaca by SMITH & TAYLOR 1950. loweryi: San Luis Potosí.
Type locality: Xilitla region, San Luis Potosí. ophiurus: Veracruz, Puebla.
Type locality: Orizaba, Veracruz, Mexico. taylori: Chihuahua, Mexico;
Type locality: Clarines Mine, about 5 miles west of Santa Barbara, Chihuahua, Mexico, at an elevation of about 6800 feet.

Gerrhonotus ophiurusis a species of lizard of the Anguidae family. It is found in Mexico.