Sceloporus samcolemani SMITH & HALL, 1974

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Higher Taxa	Phrynosomatidae, Sceloporinae, Iguania, Sauria, Squamata (lizards)
Subspecies
Common Names	E: Coleman's Bunchgrass Lizard S: Lagartija de Coleman
Synonym	Sceloporus scalaris samcolemani SMITH & HALL 1974 Sceloporus samcolemani — WATKINS-COLWELL et al. 1998 Sceloporus samcolemani — BELL et al. 2003 Sceloporus samcolemani — LINER & CASAS-ANDREU 2008 Sceloporus samcolemani — HEIMES 2022 Sceloporus samcolemani — CHARRAN et al. 2025
Distribution	Mexico ("....the mountains of extreme southeastern Coahuila and southern central Nuevo Leon. This species is strictly a montane form occurring at elevations from 2134 m (Pablillo, Nuevo Leon) to 3293 m (Cerro Potosi, Nuevo Leon)." (Watkins-Colwell et al. 1998). Type Locality: Between Providencia and La Paz, Nuevo León, Mexico.
Reproduction	oviparous (not imputed, fide Zimin et al. 2022)
Types	Holotype: UMMZ 124670, collected by P. H. Litchfield on 16 July 1960
Diagnosis
Comment	Distribution: See Charran et al. 2025: 605 (Fig. 1) for a map.
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 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 Charran, Tristan; Jesús A Loc-Barragan, Rafael Alejandro Calzada-Arciniega, Liz A Alfaro-Juantorena, Raúl Cueva Del Castillo, Christopher Blair, Víctor H Jiménez-Arcos 2025. Phylogenetic relationships and species delimitation of bunchgrass lizards of the genus Sceloporus from Mexico with the description of a new species. Journal of Heredity, esaf020 - get paper here Heimes, P. 2022. LIZARDS OF MEXICO - Part 1 Iguanian lizards. Edition Chimaira, Frankfurt Am Main, 448 pp. - get paper here Köhler, G. & Heimes, P. 2002. Stachelleguane. Herpeton-Verlag (Offenbach), 174 pp. Lazcano D, Nevárez-de los Reyes M, García-Padilla E, Johnson JD, Mata-Silva V, DeSantis DL, Wilson LD. 2019. The herpetofauna of Coahuila, Mexico: composition, distribution, and conservation status. Amphibian & Reptile Conservation 13(2) [General Section]: 31–94 (e189) - get paper here Lemos-Espinal, J.A. & Smith, H.M. 2007. Amphibians and reptiles of the state of Coahuila, Mexico. Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, 550 pp. Nevárez-de-los-Reyes, Manuel, David Lazcano, Elí García-Padilla, Vicente Mata-Silva, Jerry D. Johnson and Larry David Wilson. 2016. The Herpetofauna of Nuevo León, Mexico: Composition, Distribution, and Conservation. Mesoamerican Herpetology 3 (3): 558–638 - get paper here Smith, H. M.;Hall, W. P. 1974. Contributions to the concepts of reproductive cycles and the systematics of the scalaris group of the lizard genus Sceloporus. Great Basin Naturalist 34 (2): 97-104 - get paper here Watkins-Colwell, Gregory J ; Smith, Hobart M; Liner, Ernest A; Chiszar, David 1998. Sceloporus samcolemani. Catalogue of American Amphibians and Reptiles 675: 1-2 - get paper here Zimin, A., Zimin, S. V., Shine, R., Avila, L., Bauer, A., Böhm, M., Brown, R., Barki, G., de Oliveira Caetano, G. H., Castro Herrera, F., Chapple, D. G., Chirio, L., Colli, G. R., Doan, T. M., Glaw, F., Grismer, L. L., Itescu, Y., Kraus, F., LeBreton 2022. A global analysis of viviparity in squamates highlights its prevalence in cold climates. Global Ecology and Biogeography, 00, 1–16 - get paper here
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