Sceloporus exsul DIXON, KETCHERSID & LIEB, 1972

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Higher Taxa	Phrynosomatidae, Sceloporinae; Iguania, Sauria, Squamata (lizards)
Subspecies
Common Names	E: Queretaran Desert Lizard S: Espinosa del Desierto de Querétaro
Synonym	Sceloporus exsul DIXON, KETCHERSID & LIEB 1972 Sceloporus exsul — FERGUSON 1982: 183 Sceloporus exsul — LINER 1994 Sceloporus exsul — BELL et al. 2003
Distribution	Mexico (Queretaro) Type locality: “Peña Blanca, 1420 m, Queretaro, Mexico”
Reproduction	oviparous
Types	Holotype: TCWC 32376, collected by C. A. Ketchersid, 14 June 1970.
Diagnosis
Comment
Etymology	The Latin exsul means "a banished person" or an "exile", and refers to the isolated range of this form as a relict in the extreme southern Chihuahua desert.
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 Dixon, James R. and Julio A. Lemos-Espinal 2010. Amphibians and reptiles of the state of Queretaro, Mexico. Tlalnepantla UNAM, 428 pp. Dixon, James R.; Ketchersid, Chesley A. & Lieb, Carl S. 1972. A new species of Sceloporus (undulatus group; Sauria, Iguanidae) from Mexico. Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington 84 (38): 307-312 - get paper here Sites, Jack W., Jr.;Haiduk, Michael W. 1979. The karyotype of Sceloporus exsul (Sauria: Iguanidae). Southwestern Naturalist 24 (2): 393-395 - get paper here Smith, Hobart M.;Flores-Villela, Oscar A. 1994. Noteworthy lizards of the genera Phrynosoma and Sceloporus in the Museo de Zoología "Alfonso Herrera". Bull. Maryland Herp. Soc. 30 (3): 114-119 - get paper here
External links	IUCN Red List - Sceloporus exsul - Critically Endangered, CR National Center for Biotechnology Information Google images

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