Sceloporus exsul DIXON, KETCHERSID & LIEB, 1972
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Higher Taxa | Phrynosomatidae, Sceloporinae; Iguania, Sauria, Squamata (lizards) |
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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”
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Reproduction | oviparous |
Types | Holotype: TCWC 32376, collected by C. A. Ketchersid, 14 June 1970. |
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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
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