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Sceloporus angustus (Santa Cruz Island Sator)

Synonyms: Sator angustus

Wikipedia Abstract

The Santa Cruz Island sator (Sceloporus angustus) is a species of phrynosomatid lizardfound on Santa Cruz Island, in the Gulf of California, Baja California, Mexico. S. angustus seems to be found throughout both islands of Santa Cruz, exploiting a great variety of temperate habitats, such as rocky areas, caves along beaches, areas of beach cobblestones, and sandy substrates, with animals also seen on the branches of small bushes and the limbs of cardones (cacti).
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Attributes

Habitat Substrate [1]  Arboreal, Saxicolous, Terrestrial
Reproductive Mode [1]  Oviparous

Ecoregions

Name Countries Ecozone Biome Species Report Climate Land
Use
Gulf of California xeric scrub Mexico Nearctic Deserts and Xeric Shrublands

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External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
1Meiri, Shai (2019), Data from: Traits of lizards of the world: variation around a successful evolutionary design, Dryad, Dataset, https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.f6t39kj
Ecoregions provided by World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF). WildFinder: Online database of species distributions, ver. 01.06 Wildfinder Database
Abstract provided by DBpedia licensed under a Creative Commons License
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0