World Species : Sceloporus carinatus (Keeled Spiny Lizard)

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Sceloporus carinatus (Keeled Spiny Lizard)

Contents

Attributes

Habitat Substrate ^[1]	Terrestrial

Reproductive Mode ^[1]	Oviparous

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 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
Chimalapas montane forests	Mexico	Neotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests
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

Biodiversity Hotspots

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

Range Map

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

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