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Sceloporus graciosus (Sagebrush Lizard)

Synonyms: Sceloporus vandenburgianus

Wikipedia Abstract

The sagebrush lizard (Sceloporus graciosus) is a common species of phrynosomatid lizard found at mid to high altitudes in the western United States of America. It belongs to the genus Sceloporus (spiny lizards) in the Phrynosomatidae family of reptiles. Named after the sagebrush plants near which it is commonly found, the sagebrush lizard has keeled and spiny scales running along its dorsal surface.
View Wikipedia Record: Sceloporus graciosus

Infraspecies

Sceloporus graciosus gracilis (Western Sagebrush Lizard)
Sceloporus graciosus graciosus (Northern sagebrush lizard)
Sceloporus graciosus vandenburgianus (Southern Sagebrush Lizard)

Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  7 grams
Birth Weight [1]  1 grams
Gestation [1]  42 days
Litter Size [1]  4
Litters / Year [1]  2
Reproductive Mode [2]  Oviparous
Snout to Vent Length [1]  2.362 inches (6 cm)
Habitat Substrate [2]  Arboreal, Saxicolous, Terrestrial

Ecoregions

Protected Areas

Ecosystems

Biodiversity Hotspots

Name Location Endemic Species Website
California Floristic Province Mexico, United States No
Madrean Pine-Oak Woodlands Mexico, United States No

Prey / Diet

Pogonomyrmex occidentalis (western harvester ant)[3]

Prey / Diet Overlap

Competing SpeciesCommon Prey Count
Oreoscoptes montanus (Sage Thrasher)1

Predators

Consumers

Parasitized by 
Atractis penneri <Unverified Name>[7]
Physaloptera retusa[7]
Skrjabinoptera phrynosoma <Unverified Name>[7]
Spauligodon giganticus[7]

Range Map

External References

NatureServe Explorer

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
♦ 3The Sagebrush Sea by Cornell Lab of Ornithology
♦ 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.
♦ 5Feeding ecology of the Great Basin Rattlesnake (Crotalus lutosus, Viperidae), Xavier Glaudas, Tereza Jezkova, and Javier A. Rodríguez-Robles, Can. J. Zool. 86: 723–734 (2008)
♦ 6Feeding Ecology of the California Mountain Kingsnake, Lampropeltis zonata (Colubridae), Harry W. Greene and Javier A. Rodríguez-Robles, Copeia, 2003(2), pp. 308–314
♦ 7Gibson, 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
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