| Higher Taxa | Phrynosomatidae, Sceloporinae, Iguania, Sauria, Squamata (lizards) |
| Subspecies | Sceloporus taeniocnemis taeniocnemis COPE 1885
Sceloporus taeniocnemis hartwegi STUART 1971 |
| Common Names | E: Guatemalan Emerald Spiny Lizard
S: Chachapaja
E: Hartweg's Emerald Lizard [hartwegi]
S: Chachapaja de Hartweg [hartwegi] |
| Synonym | Sceloporus taeniocnemis COPE 1885: 399
Sceloporus malachiticus taeniocnemis — SMITH & TAYLOR 1950: 106
Sceloporus malachiticus taeniocnemis — STUART 1963
Sceloporus malachiticus — ALVAREZ DEL TORO 1973
Sceloporus taeniocnemis — LINER 1994
Sceloporus taeniocnemis — KÖHLER 2000: 85
Sceloporus taeniocnemis — WIENS et a. 2010
Sceloporus taeniocnemis — HEIMES 2022
Sceloporus taeniocnemis hartwegi STUART 1971
Sceloporus taeniocnemis hartwegi — BELL et al. 2003
Sceloporus hartwegi — PÉREZ-RAMOS & SALDAÑA DE LA RIVA 2008 |
| Distribution | SE Mexico (Chiapas), Guatemala
hartwegi: Type Locality: 8.2 mi SE San Cristóbal de Las Casas, Chiapas, Mexico, "elevation probably
about 2500 m."
Type locality: Guatemala. Restricted to Cobán by SMITH & TAYLOR 1950.
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| Reproduction | viviparous |
| Types | Holotype: USNM 24768
Holotype: UMMZ 119854, collected by F. L. Downs and J. R. Winkelmann 17 July 1959 [hartwegi] |
| Diagnosis | Additional details, e.g. a detailed description or comparisons (1092 characters), are available for collaborators and contributors. Please contact us for details. |
| Comment | Synonymy: Has been synonymized with S. formosus smaragdinus by SMITH 1939. Not listed for Mexico by KÖHLER (2000).
Group: S. formosus group (sensu lato, fide PÉREZ-RAMOS & SALDAÑA DE LA RIVA 2008) |
| Etymology | The Latin taenia, "band" or "ribbon", and the Greek kneme, meaning "leg between knee and ankle", refer to the "two black bands, separated by a brown one, on the posterior face of the thigh." The chosen Greek word for the species name is incorrect, but immutable. |
| 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
- Cope, E.D. 1885. A contribution to the herpetology of Mexico. Proc. Amer. Philos. Soc. 22: 379-404 - get paper here
- Fitch, H. S. 1978. Sexual size differences in the genus Sceloporus. Univ. Kansas Sci. Bull. 51 (13): 441-461 - get paper here
- Heimes, P. 2022. LIZARDS OF MEXICO - Part 1 Iguanian lizards. Edition Chimaira, Frankfurt Am Main, 448 pp. - get paper here
- Johnson, Jerry D.; Vicente Mata-Silva, Elí García Padilla, and Larry David Wilson 2015. The Herpetofauna of Chiapas, Mexico: composition, distribution, and conservation. Mesoamerican Herpetology 2 (3): 272–329. - get paper here
- Köhler, G. 2000. Reptilien und Amphibien Mittelamerikas, Bd 1: Krokodile, Schildkröten, Echsen. Herpeton Verlag, Offenbach, 158 pp.
- Köhler, G. 2008. Reptiles of Central America. 2nd Ed. Herpeton-Verlag, 400 pp.
- Köhler, G. & Heimes, P. 2002. Stachelleguane. Herpeton-Verlag (Offenbach), 174 pp.
- Kunz, K. 2006. Im Zauberreich des Quetzal: Traumreisen durch das “Land des ewigen Frühlings” [Guatemala]. Reptilia (Münster) 11 (57): 42-50 - get paper here
- 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
- Pérez-Ramos, E. & Saldaña de La Riva, L. 2008. Morphological revision of lizards of the formosus group, genus Sceloporus (Squamata: Sauria) of southern Mexico, with description of a new species. Bull. Maryland Herp. Soc. 44 (3): 77-98 - get paper here
- Smith, H. M. 1939. The Mexican and Central American lizards of the genus Sceloporus. Field Mus. Nat. Hist., Zool. Ser. 26: 1-397. - get paper here
- Stuart, L. C. 1948. The amphibians and reptiles of Alta Verapaz Guatamala. Miscellaneous Publications, Museum of Zoology, University of Michigan 69: 1-109 - get paper here
- Stuart, L.C. 1963. A checklist of the herpetofauna of Guatemala. Misc. Publ. Mus. Zool., Univ. Michigan (No. 122): 1-150 - get paper here
- Stuart,L.C. 1971. Comments on the malachite Sceloporus (Reptilia: Sauria: Iguanidae) of Southern México and Guatemala. Herpetologica 27: 235-39. - get paper here
- Wiens, John J.; Caitlin A. Kuczynski, Saad Arif & Tod W. Reeder 2010. PHYLOGENETIC RELATIONSHIPS OF PHRYNOSOMATID LIZARDS BASED ON NUCLEAR AND MITOCHONDRIAL DATA, AND A REVISED PHYLOGENY FOR SCELOPORUS. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 54: 150-161 - get paper here
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