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Sceloporus clarkii (Clark's Spiny Lizard)

Synonyms: Sceloporus boulengeri; Sceloporus clarki

Infraspecies

Sceloporus clarkii boulengeri (Southern Clarks Lizard)
Sceloporus clarkii clarkii (Sonoran Spiny Lizard)
Sceloporus clarkii uriquensis (El Fuerte Basin Spiny Lizard)
Sceloporus clarkii vallaris (Plateau spiny lizard)

Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  33.3 grams
Birth Weight [2]  1 grams
Female Weight [2]  30 grams
Gestation [2]  53 days
Litter Size [2]  13
Litters / Year [2]  1
Reproductive Mode [3]  Oviparous
Snout to Vent Length [2]  3.543 inches (9 cm)
Habitat Substrate [3]  Arboreal, Saxicolous

Ecoregions

Protected Areas

Biodiversity Hotspots

Name Location Endemic Species Website
Madrean Pine-Oak Woodlands Mexico, United States No
Mesoamerica Belize, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama No

Predators

Buteogallus anthracinus (Common Black-Hawk)[4]

Range Map

External References

NatureServe Explorer

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Length–weight allometries in lizards, S. Meiri, Journal of Zoology 281 (2010) 218–226
♦ 2Nathan 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
♦ 3Meiri, 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
♦ 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
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