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Sceloporus arenicolus DEGENHARDT & JONES, 1972

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Higher TaxaPhrynosomatidae, Sceloporinae, Iguania, Sauria, Squamata (lizards)
Subspecies 
Common NamesE: Dunes Sagebrush Lizard 
SynonymSceloporus graciosus arenicolous [sic] DEGENHARDT & JONES 1972
Sceloporus graciosus arenicolus — SMITH & SMITH 1976
Sceloporus graciosus arenicolus — STEBBINS 1985: 134
Sceloporus graciosus arenicolus — CONANT & COLLINS 1991: 109
Sceloporus arenicolus — COLLINS 1991
Sceloporus graciosus arenicolus — SMITH et al. 1992
Sceloporus graciosus arenicolus — BARTLETT & BARTLETT 1999: 222
Sceloporus arenicolus — CROTHER 2000
Sceloporus arenicolus — COLLINS & TAGGART 2009 
DistributionUSA (Texas: sand dune areas from Andrews to Carane counties; New Mexico: Mescalero Sands).

Type Locality: Mescalero Sands, 3 1/2 mi N and 44 mi E Roswell, Chaves Co., New Mexico.  
Reproductionoviparous 
TypesHolotype: MSB (also as MSWB) 23621, collected by K. L. Jones, 27 April 1968. Paratypes: TNHC 
Diagnosis 
Comment 
EtymologyNamed after the Latin noun arena, "sand," and adjective -cola, "dweller," refer to the habitat where the species lives. 
References
  • Bartlett, R. D. & Bartlett, P. 1999. A Field Guide to Texas Reptiles and Amphibians. Gulf Publishing Co., Houston, Texas, 331 pp.
  • Censky E J 1986. Sceloporus graciosus Baird and Girard. Sagebrush lizard. Catalogue of American Amphibians and Reptiles (386): 1-4 - get paper here
  • CHAN, LAUREN M.; JAMES W. ARCHIE, ANNE D. YODER, LEE A. FITZGERALD 2013. Review of the systematic status of Sceloporus arenicolus Degenhardt and Jones, 1972 with an estimate of divergence time. Zootaxa 3664 (3): 312–320 [erratum in http://biotaxa.org/Zootaxa/article/view/zootaxa.3686.1.8/3367] - get paper here
  • Chan, Lauren M.; Lee A. Fitzgerald & Kelly R. Zamudio 2009. The scale of genetic differentiation in the Dunes Sagebrush-Lizard (Sceloporus arenicolus), an endemic habitat specialist. Conservation Genetics 10:131–142 - get paper here
  • Collins J T 1991. Viewpoint: a new taxonomic arrangement for some North American amphibians and reptiles. Herpetological Review 22 (2): 42-43 - get paper here
  • Collins, J.T. and T. W. Taggart 2009. Standard Common and Current Scientific Names for North American Amphibians, Turtles, Reptiles, and Crocodilians, Sixth Edition. Center for North American Herpetology, 48 pp.
  • Conant,R. & Collins,J.T. 1991. A Field Guide to Reptiles and Amphibians of Eastern/Central North America, 3rd ed. Houghton Mifflin (Boston/New York), xx + 450 p.
  • 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
  • Crother, B. I. (ed.) 2012. Standard Common and Current Scientific Names for North American Amphibians, Turtles, Reptiles, and Crocodilians, Seventh Edition. Herpetological Circular 39: 1-92
  • Crump, Paul S. and Michael R. J. Forstner 2019. Bias and Precision of Lizard Occupancy Estimates Vary among Observers and between Methods. Journal of Herpetology 53 (1): 13 - get paper here
  • Degenhardt, W.G. and Jones, K.L. 1972. A new sagebrush lizard, Sceloporus graciosus, from New Mexico and Texas. Herpetologica 28: 212-217 - get paper here
  • Degenhardt, William G.; C. W. Painter, and A. H. Price 1996. Amphibians and reptiles of New Mexico. Univ. New Mexico Press, 431 pp.
  • Ferguson, Gary W.; William H. Gehrmann, Andrew M. Brinker, and Glenn C. Kroh 2014. Daily and Seasonal Patterns of Natural Ultraviolet Light Exposure of the Western Sagebrush Lizard (Sceloporus graciosus gracilis) and the Dunes Sagebrush Lizard (Sceloporus arenicolus). Herpetologica Mar 2014, Vol. 70, No. 1: 56-68. - get paper here
  • Jones, L.L. & Lovich, R.E. 2009. Lizards of the American Southwest. A photographic field guide. Rio Nuevo Publishers, Tucson, AZ, 568 pp. [review in Reptilia 86: 84] - get paper here
  • Köhler, G. & Heimes, P. 2002. Stachelleguane. Herpeton-Verlag (Offenbach), 174 pp.
  • Leaché, A.D. 2010. Species trees for spiny lizards (Genus Sceloporus): Identifying points of concordance and conflict between nuclear and mitochondrial data. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 54: 162–171 - get paper here
  • Leaché, A.D. & J.W.Sites, Jr. 2009. Chromosome Evolution and Diversification in North American Spiny Lizards (Genus Sceloporus). Cytogenet Genome Res 127: 166-181 - get paper here
  • Leavitt, Daniel J. and Matthew R. Acre. 2014. Sceloporus arenicolus (dunes sagebrush lizard) activity patterns and foraging mode. Herpetological Review 45 (4): 699-700 - get paper here
  • Painter, Charles W.;Sias, Don S. 1998. Geographic Distribution. Sceloporus arenicolus. Herpetological Review 29 (1): 52 - get paper here
  • Smith, H. M.; Bell, E. L.;Applegarth, J. S.;Chiszar, D. 1992. Adaptive convergence in the lizard superspecies Sceloporus undulatus. Bull. Maryland Herp. Soc. 28: 123-149 - get paper here
  • Smith,H.M. & Smith,R.B. 1976. Synopsis of the Herpetofauna of Mexico. Vol. III. Source analysis and index for Mexican reptiles. John Johnson, North Bennington, Vermont.
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  • Stebbins,R.C. 1985. A Field Guide to Western Reptiles and Amphibians, 2nd ed. Houghton Mifflin, Boston
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  • Wiens, John J.;Reeder, Tod W. 1997. Phylogeny of the spiny lizards (Sceloporus) based on molecular and morphological evidence. Herpetological Monographs 11: 1-101 - get paper here
 
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