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Sceloporus edbelli SMITH, CHISZAR & LEMOS-ESPINAL, 2003

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Higher TaxaPhrynosomatidae, Sceloporinae, Iguania, Sauria, Squamata (lizards)
Subspecies 
Common NamesE: Bell's spiny lizard
S: Espinosa de Bell 
SynonymSceloporus undulatus belli SMITH, CHISZAR & LEMOS-ESPINAL 1995
Sceloporus edbelli SMITH et al. 2003 (nom. nov.)
Sceloporus belli — KÖHLER & HEIMES 2002
Sceloporus edbelli — BELL et al. 2003
Sceloporus edbelli — LEMOS-ESPINAL & SMITH 2007
Sceloporus edbelli — JONES & LOVICH 2009: 516
Sceloporus undulatus edbelli — NCBI taxonomy 2020 
DistributionMexico (Durango, Coahuila [see note], Chihuahua)

Type locality: Two mi S León Guzmán, Durango, Mexico.  
Reproductionoviparous. 
TypesHolotype: UCM 41539, collected 19 June 1966 by Richard L. Holland (edbelli) 
Diagnosis 
CommentSynonymy: S. u. belli is an unavailable junior secondary homonym of Tropidolepis bellii Gray 1831 (which is a nomen dubium named in honor of Thomas Bell [1792-1880, an eminent scientist and herpetologist in London, much admired by Gray, who named many species for him). S. u. belli has thus been renamed S. u. edbelli and later elevated to full species status. Leache & Reeder 2002 considered S. edbelli as a synonym of S. cowlesi. Lemos-Espinal et al. 2016 considered S. edbelli as a synonym of S. consobrinus.

Distribution: Lemos-Espinal et al. 2016 consider S. edbelli as a synonym of S. consobrinus and thus do not list if for Coahuila. Not in Durango fide Lemos-Espinal (2018). 
EtymologyNamed after Edwin L. Bell, Professor Emeritus of Biology at Albright College, Reading, Pennsylvania, who worked for many years on S. occidentalis and the systematics of the undulatus group. S. edbelli was first described as S. bellii, which is a junior secondary homonym of Tropidolepis bellii Gray (1831:44). Tropidolepis Cuvier (1829) is a junior synonym of Sceloporus Wiegmann (1828), hence Gray's name is now assigned to Sceloporus and is therefore a senior secondary homonym of Sceloporus belli Smith et al. Smith et al. 2002 therefore erected the replacement name, S. edbelli for S. belli SMITH et al. 1995. 
References
  • 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
  • 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
  • Leaché, A.D. & Reeder, T.W. 2002. Molecular systematics of the Eastern Fence Lizard (Sceloporus undulatus): a comparision of parsimony, likelihood, and Bayesian approaches. Systematic Biology 51 (1): 44-68 - get paper here
  • Lemos-Espinal JA, Smith GR 2016. Amphibians and reptiles of the state of Coahuila, Mexico, with comparison with adjoining states. ZooKeys 593: 117-137, doi: 10.3897/zookeys.593.8484 - get paper here
  • Lemos-Espinal, J.A. & Smith, H.M. 2007. Amphibians and reptiles of the state of Chihuahua, Mexico. Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, 613 pp.
  • Lemos-Espinal, J.A. & Smith, H.M. 2007. Amphibians and reptiles of the state of Coahuila, Mexico. Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, 550 pp.
  • Lemos-Espinal, J.A., H.M. Smith & D. Chiszar 2000. New Data of the Geographic Ranges of Sceloporus belli and S. undulatus in Chihuahua, Mexico (Reptilia: Sauria) Bull. Maryland Herpetol. Soc., 36(4): 133-138. - get paper here
  • Smith, H.M., D. Chiszar & J.A. Lemos-Espinal 1995. A new subspecies of the polytypic lizard species Sceloporus undulatus (Sauria. Iguanidae) from Mexico. Texas Journal of Science 47 (2): 117-143. - get paper here
  • Smith, Hobart M., David Chiszar and Julio A. Lemos-Espinal 2002. A replacement name for Bell's spiny lizard, Sceloporus belli. Bull. Maryland Herp. Soc. 38(3): 88-90 - get paper here
 
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