World Species : Sceloporus acanthinus (Bocourt's Spiny Lizard)

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Sceloporus acanthinus (Bocourt's Spiny Lizard)

Contents

Synonyms: Sceloporus guentheri

Attributes

Adult Weight ^[1]	13 grams
Birth Weight ^[1]	1 grams
Female Weight ^[1]	13 grams

Habitat Substrate ^[2]	Arboreal

Litter Size ^[1]	6
Litters / Year ^[1]	1
Reproductive Mode ^[2]	Viviparous
Snout to Vent Length ^[1]	2.756 inches (7 cm)

Ecoregions

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Name	Countries	Ecozone	Biome
Central American Atlantic moist forests	Panama, Costa Rica, Nicaragua	Neotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests
Central American dry forests	Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Costa Rica	Neotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Dry Broadleaf Forests
Central American montane forests	Mexico, Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua	Neotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests
Central American pine-oak forests	Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua	Neotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Coniferous Forests
Chiapas Depression dry forests	Mexico	Neotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Dry Broadleaf Forests
Chiapas montane forests	Mexico	Neotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests
Chimalapas montane forests	Mexico	Neotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests
Motagua Valley thornscrub	Guatemala	Neotropic	Deserts and Xeric Shrublands
Petén-Veracruz moist forests	Mexico, Guatemala, Belize	Neotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests
Sierra Madre de Chiapas moist forest	Mexico, Guatemala, El Salvador	Neotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests
Sinú Valley dry forests	Colombia	Neotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Dry Broadleaf Forests
Southern Pacific dry forests	Mexico	Neotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Dry Broadleaf Forests

Biodiversity Hotspots

Name	Location	Endemic	Species	Website
Mesoamerica	Belize, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama	No

Consumers

Parasitized by
Physaloptera retusa	^[3]

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
♦ ³Gibson, D. I., Bray, R. A., & Harris, E. A. (Compilers) (2005). Host-Parasite Database of the Natural History Museum, London

Ecoregions provided by World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF). WildFinder: Online database of species distributions, ver. 01.06 Wildfinder Database

Biodiversity Hotspots provided by Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund

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