Heads up: Some or all of the identifications affected by
this split may have been replaced with identifications of Anniella. This
happens when we can't automatically assign an identification to one of the
output taxa.
Review identifications of Anniella pulchra 32410
Papenfuss and Parham split the legless lizard into 5 species. If you're north of Ventura it's Anniella pulchra sensu stricto, if you're south of Ventura it's Anniella stebbensi, and if you're in Kern County it could be one of three other very localized species, none of which have been observed on iNat at the time of this split.
Four New Species of California Legless Lizards (Anniella)
Author(s): Theodore J. Papenfuss and James F. Parham
Source: Breviora, Number 536:1-17. 2013.
Published By: Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University
URL: http://www.bioone.org/doi/full/10.3099/MCZ10.1 (Link)
Unintended disagreements occur when a parent (B) is
thinned by swapping a child (E) to another part of the
taxonomic tree, resulting in existing IDs of the parent being interpreted
as disagreements with existing IDs of the swapped child.
Identification
ID 2 of taxon E will be an unintended disagreement with ID 1 of taxon B after the taxon swap
If thinning a parent results in more than 10 unintended disagreements, you
should split the parent after swapping the child to replace existing IDs
of the parent (B) with IDs that don't disagree.