Sceloporus edwardtaylori SMITH, 1936

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Higher Taxa	Phrynosomatidae, Sceloporinae, Iguania, Sauria, Squamata (lizards)
Subspecies
Common Names	E: Taylor's Spiny Lizard S: Espinosa de Bell
Synonym	Sceloporus edwardtaylori SMITH 1936 Sceloporus edwardtaylori — SMITH 1939: 78 Sceloporus edwardtaylori — SMITH & TAYLOR 1950: 112 Sceloporus edwardtaylori — CAPOCACCIA 1961 Sceloporus edwardtaylori — LINER 1994 Sceloporus edwardtaylori — KÖHLER 2000: 85 Sceloporus edwardtaylori — WIENS et a. 2010 Sceloporus edwardtaylori — HEIMES 2022
Distribution	Mexico (Oaxaca) Type locality: Ixtepec (= San Gerónimo), Oaxaca.
Reproduction	oviparous
Types	Holotype: FMNH 100058, EHT-HMS 8331, orig. EHT-HMS 4221; collected by E. H. Taylor and H. M. Smith, 22 August 1935; paratype: MSNG
Diagnosis	Diagnosis: Smith 1939: 79
Comment
Etymology	The name honors Edward Harrison Taylor (1889-1978), who was a well-known herpetological collector and author on the faculty of the University of Kansas from 1926-1978, and was one of the university's more colorful teachers.
References	Capocaccia, L. 1961. Catalogo dei tipi di Rettili del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Genova [MSNG]. Ann. Mus. Civ. Stor. Nat. Giacomo Doria 72: 86-111 - get paper here Casas-Andreu, G., F.R. Méndez-De la Cruz and X. Aguilar-Miguel. 2004. Anfibios y Reptiles; pp. 375–390, in A.J.M. García-Mendoza, J. Ordoñez and M. Briones-Salas (ed.). Biodiversidad de Oaxaca. Instituto de Biología, UNAM-Fondo Oaxaqueño para la Conservación de la Naturaleza-World Wildlife Fund, México, D. F. Flores-Villela, O., H. M. Smith, E. A. Liner and D. Chiszar. 2010. Sceloporus edwardtaylori. Catalogue of American Amphibians and Reptiles (874): 1-4 - get paper here Heimes, P. 2022. LIZARDS OF MEXICO - Part 1 Iguanian lizards. Edition Chimaira, Frankfurt Am Main, 448 pp. 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. 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 Mata-Silva, Vicente, Jerry D. Johnson, Larry David Wilson and Elí García-Padilla. 2015. The herpetofauna of Oaxaca, Mexico: composition, physiographic distribution, and conservation status. Mesoamerican Herpetology 2 (1): 6–62 - 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 Smith, H.M. 1936. Description of a new Sceloporus from Southern Mexico. Herpetologica 1: 6-8 - get paper here Smith, H.M. & Taylor,E.H. 1950. An annotated checklist and key to the reptiles of Mexico exclusive of the snakes. Bull. US Natl. Mus. 199: 1-253 - get paper here Werler, J. E., & SMITH, H. M. 1952. Notes on a collection of reptiles and amphibians from Mexico, 1951-1952. Texas Journal of Science 14: 551-573. - 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
External links	IUCN Red List National Center for Biotechnology Information Google images

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