Urosaurus lahtelai RAU & LOOMIS, 1977

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Higher Taxa	Phrynosomatidae, Sceloporinae, Iguania, Sauria, Squamata (lizards)
Subspecies
Common Names	E: Baja California Brush Lizard S: Roñito de Matorral Bajacaliforniano
Synonym	Urosaurus lahtelai RAU & LOOMIS 1977: 25 Urosaurus lahtelai — STEBBINS 1985: 239 Urosaurus lahtelai — LINER 1994 Urosaurus lahtelai — LINER 2007 Urosaurus lahtelai — HEIMES 2022
Distribution	Mexico (Baja California Norte) Type locality: 4 km N parador Catavina (= Santa Ines) (114° 50'W, 29° 45'N), elevation 564 m, near Mexico Highway 1, State of Baja California, Mexico.
Reproduction	oviparous
Types	Holotype: LACM 116541, adult male; Paratypes (18). LACM 109493, 116541 (2 males) topotypes; LACM97822, 98154-55 (2 males, 1 female) from 5 km N Las Arrastras de Arriola; LACM 19249-52, MVZ 13362, 13366-67, 13371, 13374-75, 13377, 80380 (8 males, 4 females) from Catavina; MVZ 116466 (male) from 9.3 km S of turnoff to Rancho Santa Ines (= Ynez), all from Baja California, Mexico.
Diagnosis	Diagnosis: “A member of the nigricaudus complex (Mittleman, 1942: 162) possessing an entire frontal, a band of enlarged dorsals which are not separated into parallel series by the presence of smaller vertebral scales. Most closely resembling U. nigricaudus but differs in having a longer tail; 3-5 enlarged supraocular scales (mean 4.1); 86-102 (mean 94) middorsal scale rows from posterior edge of interparietal scale to vent; and a less distinct dorsal pattern consisting of 5-7 (mean 5.7) dorsolateral bars.” (RAU & LOOMIS 1977) Additional details (957 characters) are available for collaborators and contributors. Please contact us for details.
Comment	Distribution: see map in Feldman et al. 2011.
Etymology	Named after the late Leonard A. Lahtela, formerly a graduate student at California State University, Long Beach and instructor at Santa Monica College, who was instrumental in bringing the senior author into Zoology and especially the field of Herpetology.
References	Feldman, Chris R.; Oscar Flores-Villela, Theodore J. Papenfuss 2011. Phylogeny, biogeography, and display evolution in the tree and brush lizard genus Urosaurus (Squamata: Phrynosomatidae). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 61 (3): 714-725 - get paper here Heimes, P. 2022. LIZARDS OF MEXICO - Part 1 Iguanian lizards. Edition Chimaira, Frankfurt Am Main, 448 pp. - get paper here Jones, L.L. & Lovich, R.E. 2009. Lizards of the American Southwest. A photographic field guide. Rio Nuevo Publishers, Tucson, AZ, 568 pp. [review in Reptilia 86: 84] - get paper here Liner, Ernest A. 2007. A CHECKLIST OF THE AMPHIBIANS AND REPTILES OF MEXICO. Louisiana State University Occasional Papers of the Museum of Natural Science 80: 1-60 - get paper here Peralta-García A, Valdez-Villavicencio JH, Fucsko LA, Hollingsworth BD, Johnson JD, Mata-Silva V, Rocha A, DeSantis DL, Porras LW, and Wilson LD. 2023. The herpetofauna of the Baja California Peninsula and its adjacent islands, Mexico: composition, distribution, and conservation status. Amphibian & Reptile Conservation 17(1&2): 57–142 Rau,C.S. & Loomis,R.B. 1977. A new species of Urosaurus (Reptilia, Lacertilia, Iguanidae) from Baja California, Mexico. Journal of Herpetology 11 (1): 25-29 - get paper here Stebbins,R.C. 1985. A Field Guide to Western Reptiles and Amphibians, 2nd ed. Houghton Mifflin, Boston
External links	IUCN Red List National Center for Biotechnology Information Google images

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