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Sauromalus varius (Piebald Chuckwalla)

Wikipedia Abstract

The San Esteban chuckwalla (Sauromalus varius), also known as the piebald chuckwalla or pinto chuckwalla, is a species of chuckwalla belonging to the Iguanidae family endemic to San Esteban Island in the Gulf of California. It is the largest of the five species of chuckwallas and the most endangered.
View Wikipedia Record: Sauromalus varius

Endangered Species

Status: Vulnerable
View IUCN Record: Sauromalus varius

Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  3.135 lbs (1.422 kg)
Birth Weight [1]  16 grams
Female Weight [1]  2.474 lbs (1.122 kg)
Egg Length [1]  1.575 inches (40 mm)
Egg Width [1]  1.102 inches (28 mm)
Litter Size [1]  17
Litters / Year [1]  1
Maximum Longevity [3]  11 years
Reproductive Mode [2]  Oviparous
Snout to Vent Length [1]  12 inches (31 cm)
Habitat Substrate [2]  Saxicolous, Terrestrial

Ecoregions

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

External References

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
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