Sceloporus lundelli SMITH, 1939
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Sceloporus lundelli
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| Higher Taxa | Phrynosomatidae, Sceloporinae, Iguania, Sauria, Squamata (lizards) |
| Subspecies | Sceloporus lundelli gaigeae SMITH 1939 Sceloporus lundelli lundelli SMITH 1939 |
| Common Names | E: Lundell's Spiny Lizard S: Espinosa de Lundell |
| Synonym | Sceloporus lundelli SMITH 1939 Sceloporus lundelli lundelli — SMITH & TAYLOR 1950: 112 Sceloporus lundelli gaigeae — SMITH & TAYLOR 1950: 112 Sceloporus lundelli — LINER 1994 Sceloporus lundelli — KÖHLER 2000: 85 Sceloporus lundelli — WIENS et a. 2010 Sceloporus lundelli — HEIMES 2022 Sceloporus lundelli gaigeae SMITH 1939 Sceloporus lundelli gaigeae — BELL et al. 2003 |
| Distribution | Mexico (Yucatan, Campeche, Quintana Roo, Tabasco [HR 35: 188]), Guatemala (El Peten), N Belize lundelli: Yucatan peninsula gaigeae: N Yucatan Type locality: Cohune Ridge (20 miles southeast of Benque Viejo), [Belize]. |
| Reproduction | oviparous |
| Types | Holotype: UMMZ 80674 (collected by C. L. Lundell). Holotype: FMNH 31524; H. M. Smith collector. [gaigeae] |
| Diagnosis | Diagnosis (lundelli). A Sceloporus of moderately large size, maximum snout-vent measurement 86 mm.; dorsal scales 28 to 34; supraoculars large, usually four or five, rarely six, the posterior one or two usually at least partially in contact with median head scales; frontal usually in contact with median frontonasal; two canthals, normal in position; oneloreal;femoralporesninetotwelve. Ablackshoulderspotin males, sometimes connecting narrowly across dorsal surface of neck; females with narrow, undulate, dark gray bands across back; lateral blue patches on belly in males continuous across chest; middle of belly and chest dark blue; posterior surface of thigh mottled (Smith 1939: 66). |
| Comment | Distribution: The type locality was given as being in British Honduras (= Belize). Not listed for Guatemala and Belize by KÖHLER (2000). Henderson and Hoevers (1975) reported S. lundelli from Belize but they may have incorrectly identified some specimens of S. serrifer as S. lundelli. In areas where the species are sympatric, such as the northern Yucatan Peninsula, S. serrifer is terrestrial and S. lundelli strictly arboreal. |
| Etymology | The Latin genitive singular noun honors the collector, C. L. Lundell, famed in the study of Central American botany. S. l. gaigeae honors Helen Thompson Gaige (1890-1976), Curator of the Reptile and Amphibian Section of the University of Michigan Museum of Zoology (1923-1945). She was employed by the Museum from 1910-1945. She was herpetological editor of Copeia in 1930, then Managing Editor in 1937, then Editor-In-Chief from 1946-1949. She had a major role in transforming the journal into a modern quarterly publication, and in guiding the early careers of many herpetologists (Adler, 1989). |
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