Sceloporus tristichus COPE, 1875

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Higher Taxa	Phrynosomatidae, Sceloporinae; Iguania, Sauria, Squamata (lizards)
Subspecies
Common Names	E: Plateau Fence Lizard
Synonym	Sceloporus tristichus COPE 1875: 571 Sceloporus undulatus tristichus — SMITH 1938: 15 Sceloporus undulatus (exerge tristichus) tristichus — SMITH et al. 1992 Sceloporus undulatus tristichus — CROTHER 2000 Sceloporus tristichus — LEACHE & REEDER 2002 Sceloporus undulatus tristichus — BELL et al. 2003 Sceloporus tristichus — COLLINS & TAGGART 2009 Sceloporus tristichus — FLESCH et al. 2010 Sceloporus tristichus — WERNING 2012 Sceloporus tristichus — CROTHER et al. 2012
Distribution	USA (Arizona,Utah, W Colorado, NW New Mexico); Type Locality: Taos, Taos Co., New Mexico.
Reproduction	oviparous.
Types	Holotype: USNM 8613, collected August 1874, by W. G. Shedd
Diagnosis
Comment	Subspecies: Leaché and Cole (2007) presented evidence for hybridization between S. cowlesi and S. tristichus. S. (undulatus) tristichus is the race of S. undulatus sympatric with occidentalis longipes in the Pine Valley Mountains of southwestern Utah (Cole, 1963; Smith and Chiszar, 1989).
Etymology	The Greek treis, "three," and stichos, "a row of things," refer to the two narrow light dorsolateral lines and the wider middorsal stripe.
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 Collins, J.T. and T. W. Taggart 2009. Standard Common and Current Scientific Names for North American Amphibians, Turtles, Reptiles, and Crocodilians, Sixth Edition. Center for North American Herpetology, 48 pp. Cope, E.D. 1875. In Yarrow, H.C., Report upon the collections of batrachians and reptiles made in portions of Nevada, Utah, California, Colorado, New Mexico, and Arizona, during the years 871, 1872, 1873, and 1874, Chapter IV, L, pp. 509-584, In: Report upon geograph Government Printing office, Washington D.C. - get paper here Crother, B. I. (ed.) 2012. Standard Common and Current Scientific Names for North American Amphibians, Turtles, Reptiles, and Crocodilians, Seventh Edition. Herpetological Circular 39: 1-92 Dittmer, Drew E.; James Bradley Johnson, and Toby J. Hibbitts 2015. Sexual Dimorphism and Patch Size Variation in Three Lizard Species Suggests Potential for Sexual Confusion. Copeia 2015 (2): 310-321. - get paper here FLESCH, AARON D.; DON E. SWANN, DALE S. TURNER, AND BRIAN F. POWELL 2010. HERPETOFAUNA OF THE RINCON MOUNTAINS, ARIZONA. Southwestern Naturalist 55(2):240–253 - get paper here Hubbard, Kaylan A; Anna D Chalfoun, and Kenneth G Gerow 2016. The Relative Influence of Road Characteristics and Habitat on Adjacent Lizard Populations in Arid Shrublands. Journal of Herpetology 50 (1): 29-36. - get paper here Jones, L.L. & Lovich, R.E. 2009. Lizards of the American Southwest. A photographic field guide. Rio Nuevo Publishers, Tucson, AZ, 568 pp. [review in Reptilia 86: 84] - get paper here Leaché, A. D. 2011. Multi-Locus estimates of population structure and migration in a fence lizard hybrid zone. PLoS One 6 (9):e25827 - get paper here Leaché, A.D. & Reeder, T.W. 2002. Molecular systematics of the Eastern Fence Lizard (Sceloporus undulatus): a comparision of parsimony, likelihood, and Bayesian approaches. Systematic Biology 51 (1): 44-68 - get paper here Orr, M C; Parker, F D & Smith, G D; 2019. Sceloporus tristichus (Plateau Fence Lizard) and Sceloporus magister (Desert Spiny Lizard) Diet and behavior at bee nests. Herpetological Review 50 (2): 378 - get paper here Smith, H. M.; Bell, E. L.;Applegarth, J. S.;Chiszar, D. 1992. Adaptive convergence in the lizard superspecies Sceloporus undulatus. Bull. Maryland Herp. Soc. 28: 123-149 - get paper here Smith, Hobart M. 1938. Remarks on the status of the subspecies of Sceloporus undulatus, with descriptions of new species and subspecies of the Undulatus group. Occasional Papers of the Museum of Zoology, University of Michigan (387): 1-17 Werning, H. 2018. Nordamerikanische Kleinleguane – Die Familie Phrynosomatidae. Reptilia 23 (131): 14-19 Werning, Heiko 2012. Der amerikanische Südwesten, ein Sehnsuchtsort auch für Reptilienfreunde. Draco 13 (50): 4-17 - get paper here
External links	National Center for Biotechnology Information http://museum.nhm.uga.edu/~GAWildlife/Reptiles/reptsp.html http://www.wildherps.com/species/S.tristichus.html Google images

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