Petrosaurus repens (VAN DENBURGH, 1895)

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Higher Taxa	Phrynosomatidae, Sceloporinae; Iguania, Sauria, Squamata (lizards)
Subspecies
Common Names	G: Baja-California-Felsenleguan S: Lagarto de Roca Hocico Corto
Synonym	Uta repens VAN DENBURGH 1895: 102 Petrosaurus repens — GRISMER 1999 Petrosaurus repens — JUNGNICKEL 2004 Petrosaurus repens — HERNANDEZ-GALLEGOS et al. 2004 Petrosaurus repens — KRACHT 2004 Petrosaurus repens — LINER 2007
Distribution	Mexico (from North of the Isthmus of La Paz, northward to at least Rancho Santa Catarina and Isla Danzante) Type locality: Commundu, Lower California.
Reproduction	oviparous
Types	Holotype: CAS 633
Diagnosis
Comment	P. t. repens has a thin, black, postorbital stripe; one row of scales between the nasal and the supralbials, and reaches a maximum SVL of 111 mm. P. t. thalassinus lacks a postorbital stripe, has two scale rows between the nasals and supralabials, and reaches 162 mm SVL (GRISMER 1999).
References	Aguilars S., M. A.; Sites, J. W., Jr.;Murphy, R. W. 1988. Genetic variability and population structure in the lizard genus Petrosaurus (Iguanidae). Journal of Herpetology 22 (2): 135-145 - get paper here Boulenger, G.A. 1885. Catalogue of the lizards in the British Museum (Natural History). Vol. 2, Second edition. London, xiii+497 pp. - get paper here Burré, G. 2004. Auf der Suche nach dem Blauen Felsenleguan. Iguana Rundschreiben 17 (1): 25-28 Cope, E.D. 1863. Descriptions of new American Squamata in the Museum of the Smtihsonian Institution. Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia 15 [1863]: 100-106 - get paper here Dickhoff, A. 2003. Petrosaurus thalassinus (COPE 1863) - der Blaue Felsenleguan. Reptilia (Münster) 8 (41): 72-79 - get paper here Hernandez-Gallegos, Oswaldo; Casas-Andreu, Gustavo; Rodriguez-Romero, Felipe; Mendez, Fausto R. 2004. Petrosaurus repens (Central Baja California banded Rock Lizard). Scale Variation. Herpetological Review 35 (4):394-395 - get paper here Jennings M R 1990. Petrosaurus Boulenger. Rock lizards. Catalogue of American Amphibians and Reptiles 494: 1-2 - get paper here Jennings,M.R. 1990. Petrosaurus thalassinus. Catalogue of American Amphibians and Reptiles ( 496: 1-3 - 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 Jungnickel, J. 2004. Notizen zur Fortpflanzung des Felsenleguans Petrosaurus repens (VAN DENBURGH, 1895). Sauria, Berlin 26 (2): 3-7 - get paper here Kober, I. & Geissel, U. 2006. Welcher Typ passt zu mir? Die verschiedenen Lampen in der Terraristik. Terraria 1 (1): 17-21 Kracht, M. 2004. Erfahrungen bei der Zucht von Petrosaurus repens. Iguana Rundschreiben 17 (2): 14 Leviton, Alan E.; Banta, Benjamin H. 1964. Midwinter reconnaissance of the herpetofauna of the Cape Region of Baja California, Mexico. Proc. Cal. Acad. Sci. 30 (7): 127-156 - 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 Schulze Niehoff, Peter 2014. Immer an der Wand lang: Der Baja-California-Felsenleguan, Petrosaurus repens, im Terrarium. Terraria-Elaphe 2014 (2): 38-45 - get paper here Stebbins,R.C. 1985. A Field Guide to Western Reptiles and Amphibians, 2nd ed. Houghton Mifflin, Boston Van Denburgh,J. 1895. A review of the herpetology of Lower California. Part I - Reptiles. Proc. Cal. Acad. Sci. (2) 5: 77-163 - get paper here
External links	IUCN Red List - Petrosaurus repens - Least Concern, LC National Center for Biotechnology Information http://saturn.spaceports.com/~leguan/b_leguan.htm Google images

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