| Higher Taxa | Phrynosomatidae, Sceloporinae, Iguania, Sauria, Squamata (lizards) |
| Subspecies | Sceloporus taeniocnemis taeniocnemis COPE 1885
Sceloporus taeniocnemis hartwegi STUART 1971 |
| Common Names | E: Guatemalan Emerald Spiny Lizard
S: Chachapaja
E: Hartweg's Emerald Lizard [hartwegi]
S: Chachapaja de Hartweg [hartwegi] |
| Synonym | Sceloporus taeniocnemis COPE 1885: 399
Sceloporus malachiticus taeniocnemis — SMITH & TAYLOR 1950: 106
Sceloporus malachiticus taeniocnemis — STUART 1963
Sceloporus malachiticus — ALVAREZ DEL TORO 1973
Sceloporus taeniocnemis — LINER 1994
Sceloporus taeniocnemis — KÖHLER 2000: 85
Sceloporus taeniocnemis — WIENS et a. 2010
Sceloporus taeniocnemis — HEIMES 2022
Sceloporus taeniocnemis hartwegi STUART 1971
Sceloporus taeniocnemis hartwegi — BELL et al. 2003
Sceloporus hartwegi — PÉREZ-RAMOS & SALDAÑA DE LA RIVA 2008 |
| Distribution | SE Mexico (Chiapas), Guatemala
hartwegi: Type Locality: 8.2 mi SE San Cristóbal de Las Casas, Chiapas, Mexico, "elevation probably
about 2500 m."
Type locality: Guatemala. Restricted to Cobán by SMITH & TAYLOR 1950.
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| Reproduction | viviparous |
| Types | Holotype: USNM 24768
Holotype: UMMZ 119854, collected by F. L. Downs and J. R. Winkelmann 17 July 1959 [hartwegi] |
| Diagnosis | Additional details, e.g. a detailed description or comparisons (1092 characters), are available for collaborators and contributors. Please contact us for details. |
| Comment | Synonymy: Has been synonymized with S. formosus smaragdinus by SMITH 1939. Not listed for Mexico by KÖHLER (2000).
Group: S. formosus group (sensu lato, fide PÉREZ-RAMOS & SALDAÑA DE LA RIVA 2008) |
| Etymology | The Latin taenia, "band" or "ribbon", and the Greek kneme, meaning "leg between knee and ankle", refer to the "two black bands, separated by a brown one, on the posterior face of the thigh." The chosen Greek word for the species name is incorrect, but immutable.
hartwegi: The Latin nominative singular noun honors the late Norman E. Hartweg, former staff member at the University of Michigan Museum of Zoology, who worked extensively on the herpetology of Oaxaca and Chiapas. |
| 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
- Cope, E.D. 1885. A contribution to the herpetology of Mexico. Proc. Amer. Philos. Soc. 22: 379-404 - get paper here
- Fitch, H. S. 1978. Sexual size differences in the genus Sceloporus. Univ. Kansas Sci. Bull. 51 (13): 441-461 - get paper here
- Heimes, P. 2022. LIZARDS OF MEXICO - Part 1 Iguanian lizards. Edition Chimaira, Frankfurt Am Main, 448 pp. - get paper here
- Johnson, Jerry D.; Vicente Mata-Silva, Elí García Padilla, and Larry David Wilson 2015. The Herpetofauna of Chiapas, Mexico: composition, distribution, and conservation. Mesoamerican Herpetology 2 (3): 272–329. - get paper here
- Köhler, G. 2000. Reptilien und Amphibien Mittelamerikas, Bd 1: Krokodile, Schildkröten, Echsen. Herpeton Verlag, Offenbach, 158 pp.
- Köhler, G. 2008. Reptiles of Central America. 2nd Ed. Herpeton-Verlag, 400 pp.
- Köhler, G. & Heimes, P. 2002. Stachelleguane. Herpeton-Verlag (Offenbach), 174 pp.
- Kunz, K. 2006. Im Zauberreich des Quetzal: Traumreisen durch das “Land des ewigen Frühlings” [Guatemala]. Reptilia (Münster) 11 (57): 42-50 - get paper here
- 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
- Pérez-Ramos, E. & Saldaña de La Riva, L. 2008. Morphological revision of lizards of the formosus group, genus Sceloporus (Squamata: Sauria) of southern Mexico, with description of a new species. Bull. Maryland Herp. Soc. 44 (3): 77-98 - get paper here
- 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
- Stuart, L. C. 1948. The amphibians and reptiles of Alta Verapaz Guatamala. Miscellaneous Publications, Museum of Zoology, University of Michigan 69: 1-109 - get paper here
- Stuart, L.C. 1963. A checklist of the herpetofauna of Guatemala. Misc. Publ. Mus. Zool., Univ. Michigan (No. 122): 1-150 - get paper here
- Stuart,L.C. 1971. Comments on the malachite Sceloporus (Reptilia: Sauria: Iguanidae) of Southern México and Guatemala. Herpetologica 27: 235-39. - get paper here
- Wiens, John J.; Caitlin A. Kuczynski, Saad Arif & Tod W. Reeder 2010. PHYLOGENETIC RELATIONSHIPS OF PHRYNOSOMATID LIZARDS BASED ON NUCLEAR AND MITOCHONDRIAL DATA, AND A REVISED PHYLOGENY FOR SCELOPORUS. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 54: 150-161 - get paper here
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