Sceloporus macdougalli SMITH & BUMZAHEM, 1953

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Higher Taxa	Phrynosomatidae, Sceloporinae, Iguania, Sauria, Squamata (lizards)
Subspecies
Common Names	E: MacDougall's Spiny Lizard S: Espinosa de MacDougall
Synonym	Sceloporus macdougalli SMITH & BUMZAHEM 1953 Sceloporus macdougalli — LINER 1994 Sceloporus macdougalli — BELL et al. 2003 Sceloporus macdougalli — MATA-SILVA et al. 2015 Sceloporus macdougalli — FLORES-VILLELA et al. 2022 Sceloporus macdougalli — HEIMES 2022
Distribution	Mexico (Oaxaca) Type locality: Rincón Bamba, 22 mls. S.W. of Tehuantepec, 8 miles from the coast at Bahía Bamba, Isthmus of Tehuantepec, Oaxaca, Mexico.
Reproduction	viviparous (ovoviviparous)
Types	Holotype: INHS (= UIMNH) 34354, collected by Thomas MacDougall, 26-27 March 1953
Diagnosis
Comment	Sexual dimorphism: Male and female S. macdougalli are strikingly different (Mendoza-Quijano et al. 2002).
Etymology	This Latin genitive singular noun honors the late collector, Thomas MacDougall, who spent many summers collecting plants and some animals in Oaxaca and adjacent states in Mexico.
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 Beolens, Bo; Michael Watkins, and Michael Grayson 2011. The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, USA - get paper here Casas-Andreu, G., F.R. Méndez-De la Cruz and X. Aguilar-Miguel. 2004. Anfibios y Reptiles; pp. 375–390, in A.J.M. García-Mendoza, J. Ordoñez and M. Briones-Salas (ed.). Biodiversidad de Oaxaca. Instituto de Biología, UNAM-Fondo Oaxaqueño para la Conservación de la Naturaleza-World Wildlife Fund, México, D. F. FLORES-VILLELA, Oscar, SMITH, E. N., CAMPILLO-GARCÍA, Gustavo, MARTÍNEZ-MÉNDEZ, Norberto, & CAMPBELL, J. A. 2022. A new species of Sceloporus of the torquatus group (Reptilia: Phrynosomatidae) from West Mexico. Zootaxa 5134 (2): 286-296 - get paper here Heimes, P. 2022. LIZARDS OF MEXICO - Part 1 Iguanian lizards. Edition Chimaira, Frankfurt Am Main, 448 pp. - get paper here Köhler, G. & Heimes, P. 2002. Stachelleguane. Herpeton-Verlag (Offenbach), 174 pp. Leaché, A.D. 2009. Species trees for spiny lizards (Genus Sceloporus): Identifying points of concordance and conflict between nuclear and mitochondrial data. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 54: 162–171 [print 2010] - get paper here Leaché, A.D. & J.W.Sites, Jr. 2009. Chromosome Evolution and Diversification in North American Spiny Lizards (Genus Sceloporus). Cytogenet Genome Res 127: 166-181 - get paper here Martínez-Méndez, N. & Méndez-De la Cruz, F.R. 2007. Molecular phylogeny of the Sceloporus torquatus species-group (Squamata: Phrynosomatidae). Zootaxa 1609: 53-68 - get paper here Mata-Silva, Vicente, Jerry D. Johnson, Larry David Wilson and Elí García-Padilla. 2015. The herpetofauna of Oaxaca, Mexico: composition, physiographic distribution, and conservation status. Mesoamerican Herpetology 2 (1): 6–62 - get paper here Mendoza-Quijano, G. & G. Köhler & H. M. Smith 2002. Extraordinary sexual dichromatism in Sceloporus macdougalli (Reptilia: Phrynosomatidae) in Oaxaca, Mexico. Salamandra 38 (3): 185-190 - get paper here Smith, H.M. & BUMZAHEM,C.B. 1953. A new lizard of the genus Sceloporus from the Isthmus of Tehuantepec. Herpetologica 9: 183-188 - get paper here
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