Spiny lizard

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Spiny lizard
WesternFenceLizard.jpg
Western fence lizard,
Sceloporus occidentalis
Scientific classification e
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Squamata
Suborder: Iguania
Family: Phrynosomatidae
Genus: Sceloporus
Wiegmann, 1828
Synonyms
A yellow-backed spiny lizard,
Sceloporus uniformis

Spiny lizards is a common name for the genus Sceloporus in the family Phrynosomatidae. The genus is endemic to North America and Central America. This genus includes some of the most commonly seen lizards in the United States.

Common names[]

Other common names for lizards in the genus Sceloporus include fence lizards, scaly lizards, and swifts.[1]

Taxonomy[]

The 110 species in the genus Sceloporus are organized into 21 species groups. However, their relationships to each other are currently under review.[clarification needed] Listed below are species of Sceloporus:[2][3]

Species[]

  • Bocourt, 1873
  • H.M. Smith & , 1974
  • Wiegmann, 1828
  • H.M. Smith, 1939
  • , 1983
  • Sceloporus angustus (Dickerson, 1919) – Santa Cruz Island sator
  • Sceloporus arenicolus & , 1972 – dunes sagebrush lizard
  • Boulenger, 1897
  • Sceloporus aurantius & , 2014[4]
  • H.M. Smith, 1942
  • Van Denburgh, 1905
  • Sceloporus bicanthalis H.M. Smith, 1937
  • & , 1955
  • H.M. Smith et al., 1997
  • Boulenger, 1895
  • H.M. Smith, 1936
  • H.M. Smith, 1936
  • H.M. Smith, 1938
  • & Dixon, 1992
  • Sceloporus chrysostictus Cope, 1866 – yellow-spotted spiny lizard, Yucatán spiny lizard
  • Baird & Girard, 1852
  • Baird & Girard, 1854 – central fence lizard or prairie lizard
  • Baird, 1859
  • Sceloporus cowlesi Lowe & Norris, 1956 – southwestern fence lizard
  • , 1927
  • H.M. Smith & Lynch, 1967
  • Bocourt, 1873
  • Cope, 1885
  • & , 1971[5]
  • Bryson & Grummer, 2021
  • & , 2008
  • Bocourt, 1874
  • H.M. Smith, & , 2003
  • H.M. Smith, 1936
  • McCranie, 2018
  • Dixon, & , 1972
  • Wiegmann, 1834
  • Boulenger, 1905
  • & , 2017
  • H.M. Smith, 1937
  • Sceloporus graciosus Baird & Girard, 1852 – sagebrush lizard
  • Sceloporus grammicus Wiegmann, 1828 – mesquite lizard or graphic spiny lizard
  • Sceloporus grandaevus (Dickerson, 1919)
  • & H.M. Smith, 1974
  • Bryson & Grummer, 2021
  • Boulenger, 1895
  • McCranie, 2018
  • Wiegmann, 1834
  • & H.M. Smith, 1979
  • Webb, 1967
  • H.M. Smith & , 1955
  • Günther, 1890
  • Sceloporus jarrovii Cope, 1875 – Yarrow's spiny lizard,[6] mountain spiny lizard
  • Lara-Góngora, 2004
  • Van Denburgh, 1895
  • Dickerson, 1919
  • Bocourt, 1873
  • H.M. Smith, 1939
  • H.M. Smith & Bumzahem, 1953
  • H.M. Smith, 1934
  • Sceloporus magister Hallowell, 1854 – desert spiny lizard, escorpión
  • Sceloporus malachiticus Cope, 1864
  • Hallowell, 1852
  • H.M. Smith, 1934
  • Bocourt, 1876
  • Sceloporus merriami Stejneger, 1904 – canyon lizard
  • Cope, 1885[5]
  • Cope, 1885
  • Cochran, 1923
  • H.M. Smith & , 1941[5]
  • Sceloporus occidentalis Baird & Girard, 1852 – western fence lizard
  • H.M. Smith, 1934
  • Sceloporus olivaceus H.M. Smith, 1934 – Texas spiny lizard
  • H.M. Smith, 1937 – rosebelly lizard
  • Günther, 1890
  • Sceloporus orcutti Stejneger, 1893 – granite spiny lizard
  • Baird, 1859
  • Lara-Góngora, 1983
  • H.M. Smith, 1934
  • Sceloporus poinsettii Baird & Girard, 1852 – crevice spiny lizard
  • Cope, 1864
  • Günther, 1890
  • H.M. Smith & Hall, 1974
  • Sceloporus scalaris Wiegmann, 1828 – bunch grass lizard
  • Jones, 1927
  • Smith, 1942 – striated emerald lizard
  • Sceloporus serrifer Cope, 1866 – blue spiny lizard
  • , 1959
  • Cope, 1870
  • Sceloporus slevini H.M. Smith, 1937 – Slevin's bunchgrass lizard[6]
  • Bocourt, 1873
  • Hartweg & J.A. Oliver, 1937
  • Wiegmann, 1828
  • Bocourt, 1874
  • H.M. Smith, 1942
  • J.D. Lynch & H.M. Smith, 1965
  • H.M. Smith, 1942[5]
  • Cope, 1885
  • H.M. Smith & , 1975 – Tanner's spiny lizard[6]
  • Günther, 1890
  • Wiegmann, 1828 - crevice swift
  • Sceloporus tristichus Cope, 1875 – plateau fence lizard
  • Sceloporus undulatus (Bosc & Daudin, 1801) – eastern fence lizard
  • H.M. Smith, 1937
  • Sceloporus uniformis Phelan & Brattstrom, 1955 – yellow-backed spiny lizard
  • Cope, 1864
  • Sceloporus variabilis Wiegmann, 1834 – rosebelly lizard
  • H.M. Smith, 1938
  • Sceloporus woodi Stejneger, 1918 – Florida scrub lizard
  • Cope, 1863

Nota bene: A binomial authority in parentheses indicates that the species was originally described in a genus other than Sceloporus.

Sceloporus galley[]

  • Prairie lizard (Sceloporus consobrinus) Hardin Co. Texas

  • Cozumel spiny lizard (Sceloporus cozumelae), Celestún Biosphere Reserve, Yucatán, México. (12 February 2015)

  • Sagebrush spiny lizard (Sceloporus graciosus), Salt Lake County, Utah, USA (3 July 2009)

  • Sagebrush lizard (Sceloporus graciosus)

  • Desert spiny lizard (Sceloporus magister), Coconino County, Arizona, USA (6 October 2015)

  • Desert spiny lizard (Sceloporus magister), Coconino County, Arizona, USA (17 April 2011)

  • Northern rose-bellied Lizard (Sceloporus marmoratus), photographed in situ, Santa Ana National Wildlife Refuge, Texas, USA (14 April 2016).

  • Big Bend canyon lizard (Sceloporus merriami annulatus) Brewster County, Texas, USA (10 April 2014)

  • Minor spiny lizard (Sceloporus minor) a male photographed in situ, municipality of Victoria, Tamaulipas, Mexico (4 October 2008).

  • Cleft spiny lizard (Sceloporus mucronatus), archeological zone of Cantona, Puebla, Mexico (11 October 2013)

  • Western fence lizard (Sceloporus occidentalis), no data

  • Texas spiny lizard (Sceloporus olivaceus) basking on a fencepost, Highway 102, Colorado County, Texas, USA (26 March 2017)

  • Crevice spiny lizard (Sceloporus poinsettii), Mason County, Texas, USA (9 May 2014)

  • Spiny lizard (Sceloporus smithi), Municipality of San Lorenzo Albarradas, Oaxaca, Mexico (20 December 2011)

  • Torquate lizard (Sceloporus torquatus mikeprestoni) photographed in situ, municipality of Miquihuana, Tamaulipas, Mexico (5 October 2008).

  • Plateau fence lizard (Sceloporus tristichus), Emory County, Utah, USA, (17 September 2016)

  • Plateau fence lizard (Sceloporus tristichus), Uintah County, Utah, USA (9 June 2012)

  • Rose-bellied Lizard (Sceloporus v. variabilis), photographed in situ, municipality of Ocampo, Tamaulipas, Mexico (14 October 2005).

  • Florida scrub lizard (Sceloporus woodi), Palm Beach County, Florida, USA (16 December 2011)

  • Green spiny lizard (Sceloporus malachiticus) female (left) male (right), Central Highlands, Costa Rica (31 January 2020)

  • Green spiny lizard (Sceloporus malachiticus), female, Central Highlands, Costa Rica (31 January 2020)

  • Green spiny lizard (Sceloporus malachiticus), male, Central Highlands, Costa Rica (31 January 2020)

  • Eastern spiny lizard (Sceloporus spinosus) photographed in situ, municipality of Tula, Tamaulipas, Mexico (22 September 2003).

See also[]

  • Moloch horridus, an unrelated Australian lizard that is sometimes also referred to as "spiny lizard"

References[]

  1. ^ Zim HS, Smith HM (1956). Reptiles and Amphibians: A Guide to Familiar American Species: A Golden Nature Guide. Revised Edition. New York: Simon & Schuster. 160 pp. (Genus Sceloporus, pp. 56-57, 155).
  2. ^ Genus Sceloporus at The Reptile Database. www.reptile-database.org.
  3. ^ "Sceloporus ". ITIS. www.itis.gov.
  4. ^ Grummer, Jared A.; Bryson, Robert W. Jr (2014). "A new species of bunchgrass lizard (Squamata: Phrynosomatidae) from the southern sky islands of the Sierra Madre Occidental, Mexico" (PDF). Zootaxa. 3790 (3): 439–450. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3790.3.3. PMID 24869877.
  5. ^ Jump up to: a b c d Wiens, John J.; Penkrot, Tonya A. (2002). "Delimiting Species Using DNA and Morphological Variation and Discordant Species Limits in Spiny Lizards (Sceloporus)". Systematic Biology. 51 (1): 69–91. doi:10.1080/106351502753475880. PMID 11943093.
  6. ^ Jump up to: a b c 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. (Sceloporus jarrovii, p. 292; S. slevin, p. 245; S. tanneri, p. 260).

External links[]

Further reading[]

  • Boulenger GA (1885). Catalogue of the Lizards in the British Museum (Natural History). Second Edition. Volume II. Iguanidæ ... London: Trustees of the British Museum (Natural History). (Taylor and Francis, printers). xiii + 497 pp. + Plates I-XXIV. (Genus Sceloporus, p. 216).
  • Goin, Coleman J.; Goin, Olive B.; Zug, George R. (1978). Introduction to Herpetology, Third Edition. San Francisco: W.H. Freeman. xi + 378 pp. ISBN 0-7167-0020-4. (Genus Sceloporus, pp. 130, 291).
  • Powell R, Conant R, Collins JT (2016). Peterson Field Guide to Reptiles and Amphibians of Eastern and Central North America, Fourth Edition. Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. xiv + 494 pp., 47 Plates, 207 Figures. ISBN 978-0-544-12997-9. (Genus Sceloporus, p. 292).
  • Smith, Hobart M.; Brodie, Edmund D. Jr (1982). Reptiles of North America: A Guide to Field Identification. New York: Golden Press. 240 pp. ISBN 0-307-13666-3 (paperback), ISBN 0-307-47009-1 (hardcover). (Genus Sceloporus, p. 114-115).
  • Stebbins RC (2003). A Field Guide to Western Reptiles and Amphibians, Third Edition. The Peterson Field Guide Series ®. Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company. xi + 533 pp. 56 plates, 39 figures. ISBN 978-0-395-98272-3. (Genus Sceloporus, p. 283; Sceloporus species accounts, pp. 283–294).
  • Wiegmann AF Jr (1828). "Beyträge zur Amphibienkunde ". Isis von Oken 21 (4): 364-383. (Sceloporus, new genus, p. 369). (in German and Latin).
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