Animalia > Chordata > Squamata > Iguanidae > Sauromalus > Sauromalus ater

Sauromalus ater (Arizona chuckwalla; Northern Chuckwalla)

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Wikipedia Abstract

The peninsular chuckwalla (Sauromalus australis) is a lizard belonging to the family Iguanidae. It is in the same genus as the other chuckwalla species. S. australis inhabits southeastern Baja California and eastern Baja California Sur in Mexico.
View Wikipedia Record: Sauromalus ater

Infraspecies

Sauromalus ater ater
Sauromalus ater multiforaminatus
Sauromalus ater multiforminatus
Sauromalus ater shawi
Sauromalus ater townsendi (Chuckwalla) (Attributes)
Sauromalus ater tumidus

Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  230 grams
Birth Weight [1]  7 grams
Female Weight [1]  181 grams
Egg Length [1]  0.787 inches (20 mm)
Egg Width [1]  0.591 inches (15 mm)
Gestation [1]  70 days
Litter Size [1]  8
Litters / Year [1]  1
Maximum Longevity [3]  9 years
Reproductive Mode [2]  Oviparous
Snout to Vent Length [1]  7 inches (17 cm)
Female Maturity [1]  2 years 6 months
Male Maturity [1]  2 years
Habitat Substrate [2]  Saxicolous

Ecoregions

Name Countries Ecozone Biome Species Report Climate Land
Use
Gulf of California xeric scrub Mexico Nearctic Deserts and Xeric Shrublands
San Lucan xeric scrub Mexico Neotropic Deserts and Xeric Shrublands
Sierra de la Laguna dry forests Mexico Neotropic Tropical and Subtropical Dry Broadleaf Forests
Sonoran desert Mexico, United States Nearctic Deserts and Xeric Shrublands

Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Reserva de la Biosfera de la Amistad Biosphere Reserve II 493313 Costa Rica  

Predators

Buteogallus anthracinus (Common Black-Hawk)[4]

Range Map

External References

NatureServe Explorer

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Nathan P. Myhrvold, Elita Baldridge, Benjamin Chan, Dhileep Sivam, Daniel L. Freeman, and S. K. Morgan Ernest. 2015. An amniote life-history database to perform comparative analyses with birds, mammals, and reptiles. Ecology 96:3109
♦ 2Meiri, 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
♦ 3de Magalhaes, J. P., and Costa, J. (2009) A database of vertebrate longevity records and their relation to other life-history traits. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 22(8):1770-1774
♦ 4Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.
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