Sceloporus hunsakeri HALL & SMITH, 1979

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Higher Taxa	Phrynosomatidae, Sceloporinae, Iguania, Sauria, Squamata (lizards)
Subspecies
Common Names	E: Hunsaker's Spiny Lizard S: Espinosa de Hunsaker
Synonym	Sceloporus hunsakeri HALL & SMITH 1979 Sceloporus hunsakeri — STEBBINS 1985: 237 Sceloporus hunsakeri — LINER 1994 Sceloporus hunsakeri — BELL et al. 2003 Sceloporus hunsakeri — LINER & CASAS-ANDREU 2008 Sceloporus hunsakeri — HEIMES 2022
Distribution	Mexico (S Baja California Sur) Type locality: “3 mi. E of San Bartolo +/- 500 ft.” [Cape region, Baja California, Mexico].
Reproduction	oviparous
Types	Holotype: MVZ 73,570, adult male
Diagnosis
Comment
Etymology	The Latin genitive singular name honors Don Hunsaker II, in recognition of his comparative ethological studies of Sceloporus, and for encouraging W. P. Hall III to perform karyological studies of the genus.
References	Bell, E.L.; Smith, H.M. & Chiszar, D. 2003. AN ANNOTATED LIST OF THE SPECIES-GROUP NAMES APPLIED TO THE LIZARD GENUS SCELOPORUS. Acta Zoologica Mexicana (n.s.) 90: 103-174 - get paper here Beolens, Bo; Michael Watkins, and Michael Grayson 2011. The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, USA - get paper here Hall W P; Smith H M 1979. Lizards of the Sceloporus orcutti complex of the Cape region of Baja California. Breviora (452): 1-26 - get paper here Heimes, P. 2022. LIZARDS OF MEXICO - Part 1 Iguanian lizards. Edition Chimaira, Frankfurt Am Main, 448 pp. 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 Leaché, A.D. & Mulcahy, D.G. 2007. Phylogeny, divergence times and species limits of spiny lizards (Sceloporus magister species group) in western North American deserts and Baja California. Molecular Ecology 16: 5216–5233 - get paper here Peralta-García A, Valdez-Villavicencio JH, Fucsko LA, Hollingsworth BD, Johnson JD, Mata-Silva V, Rocha A, DeSantis DL, Porras LW, and Wilson LD. 2023. The herpetofauna of the Baja California Peninsula and its adjacent islands, Mexico: composition, distribution, and conservation status. Amphibian & Reptile Conservation 17(1&2): 57–142 Stebbins,R.C. 1985. A Field Guide to Western Reptiles and Amphibians, 2nd ed. Houghton Mifflin, Boston
External links	IUCN Red List National Center for Biotechnology Information Google images

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