| 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 |
| 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.
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| Reproduction | viviparous |
| 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.
- Leaché, A.D. 2010. 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 - 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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