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Sceloporus formosus WIEGMANN, 1834

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Higher TaxaPhrynosomatidae, Sceloporinae, Iguania, Sauria, Squamata (lizards)
Subspecies 
Common NamesE: Mexican Emerald Spiny Lizard
S: Chintete Verde 
SynonymSceloporus formosus WIEGMANN 1834: 50
Tropidolepis formosus — DUMÉRIL & BIBRON 1837: 303
Tropidolepis Formosus — DUMÉRIL, BIBRON & DUMÉRIL 1854: 270
Sceloporus formosus smaragdinus BOCOURT 1873 (?)
Sceloporus formosus — BOULENGER 1885: 222
Sceloporus formosus formosus — WETTSTEIN 1934
Sceloporus viviparus COPE 1885: 398
Sceloporus formosus formosus — SMITH & TAYLOR 1950: 108
Sceloporus formosus — LINER 1994
Sceloporus formosus — BELL et al. 2003
Sceloporus formosus — MATA-SILVA et al. 2015
Sceloporus formosus — HEIMES 2022 
DistributionMexico (Guerrero, Puebla, Oaxaca south of the Balsas River, CW Veracruz)

viviparus: Type Locality: Mirador, Veracruz, Mexico.

Type locality: Mexico. Restricted to Acultzingo, Veracruz, by SMITH & TAYLOR 1950.  
Reproductionviviparous (all species of the formosus group are [ovo-] vivparous) 
TypesLectotype: ZMB 635, F. Deppe collector, designated by Smith and Pérez-Higareda (1992).
Holotype: USNM 25073 etc, collected by C. Sartorius [viviparus] 
DiagnosisDiagnosis: A Sceloporus of moderate size, maximum snout-vent measurement 88 mm.; a pair of black shoulder spots, each with a narrow dorsal extension which fails to meet its fellow by five to six scale rows; dorsal scales average 34; ventral scales average 46; scales around body average 39; femoral pores average 16; median frontonasal in contact with lateral frontonasals; internasal area covered with relatively large scales, usually arranged in one, two, or three pairs; supraoculars small, in one or two rows; usually two, rarely one, canthal, the first usually not forced above canthal ridge; frontal usually in contact with interparietal; usually one loreal; throat bluish or orange or both; sides of belly blue, black-bordered, the borders sometimes fusing and the black extending over chest and middle of abdomen; nuchal collar complete ventrally in males; latter usually without a light line down the center of each dorsal scale row (present only in Guerrero specimens) (Smith 1939: 35). 
CommentGroup: S. formosus group which contains the following species: acanthinus, adleri, cryptus, druckercolini, formosus, hartwegi, internasalis, lunaei, malachiticus, salvini, scitulus, smaragdinus, stejnegeri, subpictus, taeniocnemis, tanneri (sensu lato, fide PÉREZ-RAMOS & SALDAÑA DE LA RIVA 2008) 
EtymologyThe Latin adjective formosus, "beautiful", refers to the beautiful color of males, with an olive-green or blue-green dorsal coloration, light orange anterior to a ventral cobalt blue throat band, and pearl-blue on sides of venter. 
References
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