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Sceloporus carinatus SMITH, 1936

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Higher TaxaPhrynosomatidae, Sceloporinae, Iguania, Sauria, Squamata (lizards)
Subspecies 
Common NamesE: Keeled Spiny Lizard
S: Espinosa Carinada 
SynonymSceloporus carinatus SMITH 1936
Sceloporus carinatus — SMITH 1939: 303
Sceloporus carinatus — SMITH & TAYLOR 1950: 135
Sceloporus carinatus — ALVAREZ DEL TORO & SMITH 1956: 11
Sceloporus carinatus — LINER 1994
Sceloporus carinatus — KÖHLER 2000: 85
Sceloporus carinatus — WIENS et a. 2010
Sceloporus carinosus — PERCINO-DANIEL et al. 2013 (in error)
Sceloporus carinatus — HEIMES 2022 
DistributionMexico (Chiapas), Guatemala

Type locality: Near Tuxtla Gutiérrez, Chiapas.  
Reproductionoviparous 
TypesHolotype: FMNH 32005 (originally EHT-HMS 4866), collected 4 September 1935 by E. H. Taylor and H. M. Smith. 
DiagnosisDiagnosis: Smith 1939: 303 
CommentDistribution: Not listed for Guatemala by KÖHLER (2000). 
EtymologyThe Latin carina, "keel," and -atus, "pertaining to," refer to the strongly keeled head scales. 
References
  • Aguilar-López JL, Luría-Manzano R, Pineda E, Canseco-Márquez L 2021. Selva Zoque, Mexico: an important Mesoamerican tropical region for reptile species diversity and conservation. ZooKeys 1054: 127-153 - get paper here
  • Alvarez DEL TORO, M. 1982. Los Reptiles de Chiapas. 3rd ed. México: Tuxtla Gutiérrez, 248 pp.
  • Álvarez DEL TORO, M., & SMITH, H. M. 1956. Notulae herpetologicae Chiapasiae. I. Herpetologica 12: 3-17 - get paper here
  • Bell, E.L.; Smith, H.M. & Chiszar, D. 2003. AN ANNOTATED LIST OF THE SPECIES-GROUP NAMES APPLIED TO THE LIZARD GENUS SCELOPORUS. Acta Zoologica Mexicana (n.s.) 90: 103-174 - get paper here
  • Flores-Villela, O., H. M. Smith, E. A. Liner and D. Chiszar. 2010. Sceloporus carinatus. Catalogue of American Amphibians and Reptiles (873): 1-4 - get paper here
  • Heimes, P. 2022. LIZARDS OF MEXICO - Part 1 Iguanian lizards. Edition Chimaira, Frankfurt Am Main, 448 pp. - get paper here
  • Johnson, Jerry D.; Vicente Mata-Silva, Elí García Padilla, and Larry David Wilson 2015. The Herpetofauna of Chiapas, Mexico: composition, distribution, and conservation. Mesoamerican Herpetology 2 (3): 272–329. - get paper here
  • Köhler, G. 2000. Reptilien und Amphibien Mittelamerikas, Bd 1: Krokodile, Schildkröten, Echsen. Herpeton Verlag, Offenbach, 158 pp.
  • Köhler, G. & Heimes, P. 2002. Stachelleguane. Herpeton-Verlag (Offenbach), 174 pp.
  • Smith, H. M. 1936. Descriptions of new species of lizards of the genus Sceloporus from Mexico. Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington 49: 87-96 - 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. 1991. The Status of the Southern Mexican Lizard Sceloporus carinatus Bull. Maryland Herpetol. Soc., 27(4): 195-200. - get paper here
  • Stuart, L.C. 1963. A checklist of the herpetofauna of Guatemala. Misc. Publ. Mus. Zool., Univ. Michigan (No. 122): 1-150 - 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
 
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