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Sceloporus chrysostictus (Yellow-spotted Spiny Lizard)

Wikipedia Abstract

The yellow-spotted spiny lizard or Yucatán spiny lizard (Sceloporus chrysostictus) is a species of phrynosomatid lizard.
View Wikipedia Record: Sceloporus chrysostictus

Attributes

Habitat Substrate [1]  Terrestrial
Reproductive Mode [1]  Oviparous

Ecoregions

Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Cockscomb Basin Wildlife Sanctuary IV 122962 Belize
Dzilam de Bravo Wetland Reserve 149170 Yucatan, Mexico    
El Parque Estatal Lagunas de Yalahau Wetland Reserve   Yucatan, Mexico  
Maya Multiple Use Area 1156412 Guatemala  
Shipstern Nature Reserve IV 20453 Belize

Biodiversity Hotspots

Name Location Endemic Species Website
Mesoamerica Belize, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama Yes

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
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