Overview
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Endangered |
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Description
Habitat
Ecology: Animals can be found in xerophytic
shrubland and premontane shrubland on mountain slopes
. It is not known if populations can persist in disturbed
habitat
.
List of Habitats:3.7Shrubland - Subtropical/Tropical High Altitude
6Rocky areas (eg. inland cliffs
, mountain peaks)
Taxonomy
- Domain:
Eukaryota
(
)
- Whittaker & Margulis,1978
- eukaryotes
- Kingdom:
Animalia
()
- Linnaeus, 1758
- animals
- Subkingdom:
Bilateria
()
- (Hatschek, 1888) Cavalier-Smith, 1983
- Branch:
Deuterostomia
()
- Grobben, 1908
- Infrakingdom:
Chordonia
()
- (Haeckel, 1874) Cavalier-Smith, 1998
- Phylum:
Chordata
()
- Bateson, 1885
- Chordates
- Subphylum:
Vertebrata
()
- Cuvier, 1812
- Vertebrates
- Infraphylum:
Gnathostomata
()
- Auct.
- Jawed Vertebrates
- Superclass:
Tetrapoda
()
- Goodrich, 1930
- Class:
Reptilia
()
- Reptiles
- Subclass:
Diapsida
()
- Infraclass:
Lepidosauromorpha
()
- Superorder:
Lepidosauria
()
-
- Order:
Squamata
()
- Suborder:
Lacertilia
()
- Infraorder:
Iguania
()
- Family:
Phrynosomatidae
()
- Genus:
Sceloporus
()
- Specific name:
cyanostictus
- Scientific name: - Sceloporus cyanostictus Axtell & Axtell, 1971
- Specific name:
cyanostictus
- Genus:
Sceloporus
(
- Family:
Phrynosomatidae
(
- Infraorder:
Iguania
(
- Suborder:
Lacertilia
(
- Order:
Squamata
(
- Superorder:
Lepidosauria
(
- Infraclass:
Lepidosauromorpha
(
- Subclass:
Diapsida
(
- Class:
Reptilia
(
- Superclass:
Tetrapoda
(
- Infraphylum:
Gnathostomata
(
- Subphylum:
Vertebrata
(
- Phylum:
Chordata
(
- Infrakingdom:
Chordonia
(
- Branch:
Deuterostomia
(
- Subkingdom:
Bilateria
(
- Kingdom:
Animalia
(
Similar Species
Members of the genus Sceloporus
There are approximately 358 species in this genus. Here are just 100 of them:
S. acanthinus (Bocourt's Spiny Lizard) · S. adleri (Adler's Spiny Lizard) · S. aeneus (Black-Bellied Bunchgrass Lizard) · S. aeneus aeneus · S. aeneus bicanthalis · S. aeneus bulleri · S. anahuacus (Anahuacan Bunchgrass Lizard) · S. angustus (Santa Cruz Island Sator) · S. arenicolus (Dunes Sagebrush Lizard) · S. asper · S. aureolus (Southern Crevice Spiny Lizard) · S. becki · S. bicanthalis (Trans Volcanic Bunchgrass Lizard) · S. binocularis · S. biseriatus · S. boulengeri · S. bulleri (Buller's Spiny Lizard) · S. caeruleus (Blue Ornate Spiny Lizard) · S. carinatus (Keeled Spiny Lizard) · S. cautus (Shy Spiny Lizard) · S. chaneyi (Chaney’s Bunchgrass Lizard) · S. chrysostictus (Yellow-Spotted Spiny Lizard) · S. chrysosticus · S. clarki · S. clarkii (Boulengeri: Stejneger?s Spiny Lizard) · S. clarkii boulengeri · S. clarkii clarkii · S. clarkii uriquensis · S. clarkii vallaris (Clark's Spiny Lizard) · S. clarki boulengeri · S. clarki clarki · S. cochranae · S. consabrinus · S. consobeinis · S. consobrinus (Southern Prairie Lizard) · S. consolrinus · S. couchi · S. couchii (Couch's Spiny Lizard) · S. cousobrinus · S. cozumelae (Cozumel Spiny Lizard) · S. cryptus (Sierra Juarez Spiny Lizard) · S. cupreus · S. cyanogenis · S. cyanogenys (West Gulf Rough-Scaled Lizard) · S. cyanostictus · S. delicatissimus · S. digueti · S. dispar · S. disparilis · S. dugesi · S. dugesii (Duges' Spiny Lizard) · S. dugesii dugesii · S. dugesii intermedius · S. dugessi · S. edwardtaylori (Taylor's Spiny Lizard) · S. elongatus · S. exsul (Queretaran Desert Lizard) · S. ferrariperezi · S. ferrariperezi binocularis · S. ferrariperezi melanogaster · S. floridanus · S. formarus · S. formons · S. formosus (Mexican Emerald Spiny Lizard) · S. formosus formosus · S. formosus malachiticus · S. formosus scitulus · S. formosus smaragdinus · S. formous · S. fulvius · S. fulvus · S. g · S. gadovae (Gadow's Spiny Lizard) · S. gadovi · S. gadoviae (Gadow's Spiny Lizard) · S. gadovie · S. gadowi · S. gardori · S. garmani · S. goldmani (Goldman's Bunchgrass Lizard) · S. gracilis · S. graciosus (Graciosus: Northern Sagebrush Lizard) · S. graciosus gracilis · S. graciosus graciosus (Northern Sagebrush Lizard) · S. graciosus vandenburgianus · S. gramicus · S. grammicus (Microlepidotus: (Northern) Mesquite Lizard) · S. grammicus(f) · S. grammicus(F5) · S. grammicus(F5+6) · S. grammicus(F5+6)(f) · S. grammicus(f5+6)(m) · S. grammicus(F6) · S. grammicus(f6)(f) · S. grammicus(F6)(m) · S. grammicus(FM1) · S. grammicus(FM2) · S. grammicus(m) · S. grammicus(m)(F6) · S. grammicus(S)
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Further Reading
- Axtell, R.W. and Axtell, C.A. 1971. A new lizard (Sceloporus jarrovii cyanostictus) from the Sierra Madre of Coahuila, Mexico. Copeia 1971(1): 89-98.
- Weins, J.J. and Reeder, T.W. 1997. Phylogeny of the spiny lizards (Sceloporus) based on molecular and morphological evidence. Herpetological Monographs 11: 1-101.
- Wiens, J.J. and Penkrot, T.A. 2002. Delimiting species using DNA and morphological variation and discordant species limits in spiny lizards (Sceloporus). Systematic Biology 51(1): 69-91.
- Wiens, J.J., Reeder, T.W. and Montes de Oca, A.N. 1999. Molecular phylogenetics and evolution of sexual dichromatism among populations of the Yarrow's Spiny Lizard (Sceloporus jarrov). Evolution 53(6): 1884-1897.
Notes
Contributors
- Vazquez DÃaz, J., Gadsden, H., Quintero DÃaz, G.E., Ponce-Campos, P. & Lavin, P. 2007. In IUCN 2008. 2008 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCNRedList.org. Downloaded July 19, 2008.
Identifiers
- Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 204359
- IUCN ID: 64099
- Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 3963421
