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Sceloporus grammicus (Graphic Spiny Lizard; mesquite lizard)

Synonyms: Sceloporus dispar; Sceloporus disparilis; Sceloporus heterurus; Sceloporus microlepidotus; Sceloporus pilsbryi

Wikipedia Abstract

The mesquite lizard (Sceloporus grammicus) is a species of lizard. It is sometimes referred to as the graphic spiny lizard.
View Wikipedia Record: Sceloporus grammicus

Infraspecies

Sceloporus grammicus disparilis (Mezquite Graphic Lizard)
Sceloporus grammicus grammicus (Mesquite lizard)
Sceloporus grammicus microlepidotus (Northern Plateau Graphic Lizard)
Sceloporus grammicus tamaulipensis (Tamaulipas Graphic Lizard)

Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  5.5 grams
Habitat Substrate [2]  Arboreal
Litter Size [1]  6
Litters / Year [1]  1
Reproductive Mode [2]  Viviparous
Snout to Vent Length [1]  1.968 inches (5 cm)

Ecoregions

Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Reserva de la Biosfera El Cielo Biosphere Reserve 353161 Mexico  
Reserva de la Biosfera Sierra Gorda Biosphere Reserve VI 955579 Queretaro, Mexico  
Reserva de la Michilia Biosphere Reserve VI 23405 Durango, Mexico  

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

Accipiter cooperii (Cooper's Hawk)[3]
Buteo albonotatus (Zone-tailed Hawk)[3]
Falco sparverius (American Kestrel)[3]

Consumers

Parasitized by 
Mesocestoides tetrathyridium <Unverified Name>[4]
Physaloptera retusa[4]
Skrjabinodon scelopori[4]
Spauligodon giganticus[4]
Strongyluris similis[4]

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
3Jorrit 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.
4Gibson, 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