Biology:Sceloporus grammicus
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| Sceloporus grammicus, male | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Order: | Squamata |
| Suborder: | Iguania |
| Family: | Phrynosomatidae |
| Genus: | Sceloporus |
| Species: | S. grammicus
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| Sceloporus grammicus Wiegmann, 1828
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Sceloporus grammicus is a species of lizard from Mexico and the southern United States . It is sometimes referred to as the mesquite lizard or graphic spiny lizard.[1][2]
Geographic range
Sceloporus grammicus is native to the southern United States in the state of Texas , and to Mexico in the states of Chihuahua, Durango, Zacatecas, Coahuila, San Luis Potosí, Nuevo León, Tamaulipas, Oaxaca, Guerrero, Querétaro, and Aguascalientes.[2]
Description
Sceloporus grammicus is a flat-bodied lizard with a tail that is slightly longer than head-body length. Adult total body length varies between 10 and 17.5 cm (3.9 and 6.9 in). The dorsum is mottled olive or gray and has a pattern consisting of 3–6 dark crossbars. The forelegs and tail have narrow crossbars. Males differ from females by having blue patches and black mottling on throat, a dark line on each shoulder, and blue patches on sides of belly, sometimes bordered in black.[3]
Reproduction
Sceloporus grammicus is viviparous.[2][4] Litter size varies between 2 and 12.[3][4] Females become sexually mature between 34 and 74 mm (1.3 and 2.9 in) in snout–vent length.[4]
Subspecies
There are four recognized subspecies of Sceloporus grammicus including the nominate race:[2]
- Sceloporus grammicus disparilis Stejneger, 1916 — mesquite graphic lizard
- Sceloporus grammicus grammicus Wiegmann, 1828 — southern mesquite lizard
- Sceloporus grammicus microlepidotus Wiegmann, 1834 — northern mesquite lizard
- Sceloporus grammicus tamaulipensis Sites & Dixon, 1981 — Tamaulipas mesquite lizard
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Hammerson, G.A.; Vazquez Díaz, J.; Quintero Díaz, G.E. (2007). "Sceloporus grammicus". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2007: e.T64107A12744035. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2007.RLTS.T64107A12744035.en. https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/64107/12744035.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 Sceloporus grammicus at the Reptarium.cz Reptile Database. Accessed 25 February 2017.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 "Graphic Spiny Lizard". Herps of Texas. http://www.herpsoftexas.org/content/graphic-spiny-lizard. Retrieved 25 February 2017.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 Ramírez-Bautista, Aurelio; Jiménez-Cruz, Elsa; Marshall, Jonathon C. (2004). "Comparative life history for populations of the Sceloporus grammicus complex (Squamata: Phrynosomatidae)". Western North American Naturalist 64 (2): 175–183.
Further reading
- Wiegmann, A.F.A. 1828. Beyträge zur Amphibienkunde. Isis (Oken) 21(4):364-383.
- Wiegmann, A.F.A. 1834. Herpetologia Mexicana, seu descriptio amphibiorum novae hispaniae, quae itineribus comitis de Sack, Ferdinandi Deppe et Chr. Guil. Schiede in Museum Zoologicum Berolinense Pervenerunt. Pars prima, saurorum species. Berlin, Lüderitz, iv + 54 pp.
- Stejneger, L.H. 1916. A new lizard in the genus Sceloporus from Texas. Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash. 29:227-230.
- Sites, J.W. and Dixon, J.R. 1981. A new subspecies of the Iguanid lizard, Sceloporus grammicus, from Northeastern Mexico, with comments on its evolutionary implications and the status of S. g. disparilis. Journal of Herpetology 15(1):59-69.
Wikidata ☰ Q3727167 entry
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