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Sceloporus orcutti STEJNEGER, 1893

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Higher TaxaPhrynosomatidae, Sceloporinae, Iguania, Sauria, Squamata (lizards)
Subspecies 
Common NamesE: Granite Spiny Lizard
S: Espinosa del Granito 
SynonymSceloporus orcutti STEJNEGER 1893: 181
Sceloporus orcutti orcutti — SMITH 1939: 133
Sceloporus digueti MOCQUARD 1899: 311
Sceloporus orcutti — SMITH & TAYLOR 1950: 114
Sceloporus orcutti — STEBBINS 1985: 129
Sceloporus orcutti — LINER 1994
Sceloporus orcutti — BELL et al. 2003
Sceloporus orcutti — LINER & CASAS-ANDREU 2008
Sceloporus orcutti — HEIMES 2022 
DistributionUSA (S California),
Mexico (Baja California)

digueti: Mexico (Baja California): Type Locality: Santa Rosalía, Baja California.

Type locality: California: San Diego County, Milquatay Valley, 2500-2600 ft. elevation. [Milquatay is said to mean 'wheat field' in Indian; C. R. Orcutt told L. M. Klauber that the type locality was a few hundred yards east of Campo, San Diego County. (Klauber, 1939).]  
Reproductionoviparous 
TypesHolotype: USNM 16330 (collected by C.R. Orcutt)
Holotype: MNHN-RA 1892.419. collected by M. Leon Diguet, 1896-7 [digueti] 
DiagnosisDiagnosis: Smith 1939: 133 
Comment 
EtymologyThis Latin patronym honors Charles Russell Orcutt, pioneer San Diego naturalist, editor, and publisher who collected the type specimen.

The name digueti honors M. Leon Diguet, who made numerous ethnographic, zoological and botanical collections in Baja California, Mexico. 
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