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Sceloporus slevini SMITH, 1937

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Higher TaxaPhrynosomatidae, Sceloporinae, Iguania, Sauria, Squamata (lizards)
Subspecies 
Common NamesE: Slevins’s Bunch Grass Lizard
S: Espinosa de Pastizal de Slevin 
SynonymSceloporus scalaris slevini SMITH 1937
Sceloporus scalaris slevini — SMITH 1946
Sceloporus scalaris slevini — SMITH & TAYLOR 1950: 138
Sceloporus scalaris slevini — DIXON & MEDICA 1965
Sceloporus scalaris slevini — VAN DEVENDER & LOWE 1977
Sceloporus slevini — TANNER 1987
Sceloporus scalaris slevini — LINER 1994
Sceloporus slevini — SMITH et al. 1996
Sceloporus slevini — COOPER et al. 2005
Sceloporus slevini — HEIMES 2022 
DistributionUSA (SE Arizona, New Mexico)
Mexico (N Durango; E Sonora, C/W Chihuahua)

Type locality: Miller Peak, Huachuca Mountains, Cochise County, Arizona.  
Reproductionoviparous 
TypesHolotype: CAS 48103, collected by Joseph R. Slevin, 23 August 1920 
DiagnosisDiagnosis: Smith 1939: 343. 
CommentDistribution: Not listed by LAZCANO VILLARREAL & DIXON 2002 for Nuevo Leon. Not in Sinaloa (Lemos-Espinal & Smith 2020).

Map: Painter in Jones & Lovich 2009: 250. 
EtymologyNamed after Joseph Richard Slevin (1881-1957), curator of Herpetology at the California Academy of Sciences 1928-1957. 
References
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  • Bryson, Robert W.; Uri Omar García-Vázquez, Brett R. Riddle 2011. Relative roles of Neogene vicariance and Quaternary climate change on the historical diversification of bunchgrass lizards (Sceloporus scalaris group) in Mexico. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 62 (1): 447-457 - get paper here
  • Cooper Jr., W.E.; Vitt, L.J.; Caldwell, J.P. & Fox, S.F. 2005. Relationships among foraging variables, phylogeny, and foraging modes, with new data for nine North American lizard species. Herpetologica 61 (3): 250-259 - get paper here
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