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Higher TaxaPhrynosomatidae, Sceloporinae, Iguania, Sauria, Squamata (lizards)
SubspeciesSceloporus horridus horridus WIEGMANN 1834
Sceloporus horridus oligoporus COPE 1864 
Common NamesE: Horrible Spiny Lizard, Rough Lizard, Southern Rough Lizard [horridus]
S: Chintete Gris del Sur [horridus]
E: Few-pored Rough Lizard, Western Rough Lizard [oligoporus]
S: Chintete Gris de Pocos Poros [oligoporus] 
SynonymSceloporus horridus WIEGMANN 1834
Tropidolepis horridus — DUMÉRIL & BIBRON 1837: 306
Tropidolepis Horridus — DUMÉRIL, BIBRON & DUMÉRIL 1854: 270
Sceloporus spinosus horridus — BOULENGER 1885: 493
Sceloporus horridus horridus — SMITH 1939: 98
Sceloporus horridus horridus — SMITH & TAYLOR 1950: 116
Sceloporus horridus horridus — CAMARILLO-RANGEL 1983
Sceloporus horridus — LINER 1994
Sceloporus horridus — BELL et al. 2003
Sceloporus horridus — MATA-SILVA et al. 2015
Sceloporus horridus — LINER & CASAS-ANDREU 2008
Sceloporus horridus — CORTÉS-VÁZQUEZ et al. 2022
Sceloporus horridus — HEIMES 2022

Sceloporus horridus oligoporus COPE 1864
Sceloporus oligoporus COPE 1864: 177
Sceloporus horridus oligoporus — SCHMIDT 1947
Sceloporus horridus oligoporus — ETHERIDGE 1964
Sceloporus horridus oligoporus — CAMARILLO-RANGEL 1983
Sceloporus horridus oligoporus — BELL et al. 2003
Sceloporus horridus oligoporus — LINER & CASAS-ANDREU 2008 
DistributionMexico (S Morelos, Guerrero, Oaxaca, S Puebla, N Jalisco, Michoacan, Colima, Aguascalientes, México, Nayarit)

oligoporus: Mexico (W Guerrero, C/S Michoacan, C Jalisco). Type Locality: Colima, Colima, Mexico.

Type locality: Mexico. Restricted to Cuernavaca, Morelos, by SMITH & TAYLOR 1950.  
Reproductionoviparous 
TypesHolotype: ZMB 640 (missing fide Taylor, 1969), Ferdinand Deppe collector.
Syntypes: USNM 31386-31393, collected by John Xantus; 31391 exchanged to MCZ in 1944; 31392 exchanged to INHS (= UIMNH) in 1956, paratype: USNM 31391 [oligoporus] 
DiagnosisDiagnosis: Smith 1939: 98 
CommentSubspecies: Sceloporus horridus albiventris SMITH 1939: 108 is now considered as valid species.

Distribution: Not in Durango fide Lemos-Espinal (2018), nor in Sinaloa (Lemos-Espinal & Smith 2020). Not in Guanajuato fide Leyte-Manrique et al. 2022. For a map of localities see Vargas-Jaimes et al. 2025: Fig. 1.

Diet: a large percentage of the diet of this species (10-30%) consists of ants (Lucas et al. 2023). 
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