Sceloporus licki VAN DENBURGH, 1895

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Higher Taxa	Phrynosomatidae, Sceloporinae, Iguania, Sauria, Squamata (lizards)
Subspecies
Common Names	E: Cape Arboreal Spiny Lizard S: Bejori Arboricola del Cabo
Synonym	Sceloporus licki VAN DENBURGH 1895: 110 Sceloporus orcutti licki — SMITH 1939: 140 Sceloporus orcutti licki — SMITH & TAYLOR 1950: 114 Sceloporus orcutti licki — LEVITON & BANTA 1964 Sceloporus licki — STEBBINS 1985: 237 Sceloporus licki — LINER 1994 Sceloporus licki — BELL et al. 2003 Sceloporus licki — LINER & CASAS-ANDREU 2008 Sceloporus licki — HEIMES 2022 Sceloporus licki — GOTSCHO et al. 2025
Distribution	Mexico (Baja California Sur) Type locality: Sierra San Lázaro, Baja California.
Reproduction	oviparous
Types	Holotype: CAS 1436 (thought to be destroyed in 1906 fide SMITH & TAYLOR 1950 who designated CAS 2987a, formerly at Stanford Univ. Mus., as lectotype), still extant in CAS.
Diagnosis	Diagnosis: Allied to S . consobrinus, but much larger, with more strongly mucronate scales, with larger scales on the back, with much larger scales on the posterior surface of thigh, and never with two blue patches on throat (Van Denburgh 1895: 110). Unfortunately we had to temporarily remove additional information as this was scraped by multiple AI companies who sell that data to their customers. These details, e.g. detailed descriptions or comparisons (about 135 characters) are available for collaborators and contributors. Please contact us for details.
Comment	Distribution: see map in Gottscho et al. 2025: Fig. 5.
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 Boulenger, G.A. 1897. A revision of the lizards of the genus Sceloporus. Proc. Zool. Soc. London 1897: 474-522 - get paper here Galina‐Tessaro, Patricia; Álvarez‐Cárdenas, Sergio; Valdez‐Villavicencio, Jorge H.; Villagrán‐SantaCruz, Maricela 2021. Reproduction in Sceloporus licki (Reptilia: Phrynosomatidae) in the Cape Region, Baja California Sur. Acta Zoologica, 102 (3): 310-322 - get paper here Gottscho, Andrew D.; Bradford D. Hollingsworth, Julio Lemos Espinal, Adam D. Leaché, Tod W. Reeder, Kevin de Queiroz 2025. Comparative Phylogeography of Phrynosomatid Lizards in Baja California: Asynchronous Divergences and Expansion of Callisaurus draconoides Across the North American Deserts, J. Biogeogr. e70075 - 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. - 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. 2009. 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 [print 2010] - 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 Leviton, Alan E.; Banta, Benjamin H. 1964. Midwinter reconnaissance of the herpetofauna of the Cape Region of Baja California, Mexico. Proc. Cal. Acad. Sci. 30 (7): 127-156 - get paper here López-Acosta, Daniela; Patricia Galina-Tessaro, Jorge H. Valdez-Villavicencio y Anny Peralta-García 2016. Nuevos registros de Sceloporus licki (Lacertilia: Phrynosomatidae) en la región del Cabo, Baja California Sur, México. Revista Mexicana de Herpetología 2(1): 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 Smith, H. M. 1939. The Mexican and Central American lizards of the genus Sceloporus. Field Mus. Nat. Hist., Zool. Ser. 26: 1-397. - get paper here Stebbins,R.C. 1985. A Field Guide to Western Reptiles and Amphibians, 2nd ed. Houghton Mifflin, Boston Van Denburgh, John 1922. The Reptiles of Western North America. Volume I. Lizards. Occ. Pap. Cal. Acad. Sci. (10): 1–612 - get paper here Van Denburgh,J. 1895. A review of the herpetology of Lower California. Part I - Reptiles. Proc. Cal. Acad. Sci. (2) 5: 77-163 - get paper here
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