Editing Southern alligator lizard (section)

==Taxonomy and etymology==
The [[Genus|generic]] name ''Elgaria'' is possibly named for an "Elgar" or a pun on "alligator." The [[Specific name (zoology)|specific name]] ''multicarinata'' refers to the keeled scales characteristic of this species.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|title = California Alligator Lizard - ''Elgaria multicarinata multicarinata ''|url = http://www.californiaherps.com/lizards/pages/e.m.multicarinata.html|website = www.californiaherps.com|access-date = 2015-12-28}}</ref> The common name "alligator lizard" is a reference to the fact that the back and belly scales of these lizards are reinforced by bone, as they are in alligators.<ref name=":1">{{Cite web|url = http://www.saczoo.org/Document.Doc?id=143|title = Sacramento Zoo -- Alligator Lizard|date = |access-date = |website = |publisher = |last = |first = | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304131041/http://www.saczoo.org/Document.Doc?id=143 | archive-date=4 March 2016 }}</ref>

The subspecific name ''webbii'' is in honor of [[Thomas Hopkins Webb]] (1801–1866) who was Secretary of the [[United States and Mexican Boundary Survey]] (1848–1855).<ref>Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). ''The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles''. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. {{ISBN|978-1-4214-0135-5}}. (''Elgaria multicarinata webbii'', p. 280).</ref> The subspecific name ''scincicauda'' means "skink tail".