Animalia > Chordata > Squamata > Phrynosomatidae > Sceloporus > Sceloporus bimaculosus

Sceloporus bimaculosus (Desert Spiny Lizard)

Synonyms: Sceloporus magister bimaculosus

Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  43.6 grams
Birth Weight [2]  2 grams
Female Weight [2]  27 grams
Egg Length [2]  0.709 inches (18 mm)
Egg Width [2]  0.394 inches (10 mm)
Gestation [2]  67 days
Litter Size [2]  9
Litters / Year [2]  2
Maximum Longevity [4]  6 years
Reproductive Mode [3]  Oviparous
Snout to Vent Length [2]  3.543 inches (9 cm)
Habitat Substrate [3]  Terrestrial
Male Maturity [2]  2 years

Ecoregions

Protected Areas

Biodiversity Hotspots

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

Predators

Arizona elegans (arenicola)[5]
Glaucidium brasilianum cactorum (cactus ferruginous pygmy-owl)[6]

Consumers

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

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
♦ 4de Magalhaes, J. P., and Costa, J. (2009) A database of vertebrate longevity records and their relation to other life-history traits. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 22(8):1770-1774
♦ 5Food Habit of the Glossy Snake, Arizona elegans, with Comparisons to the Diet of Sympatric Long-nosed Snakes, Rhinocheilus lecontei, Javier A. Rodríguez-Robles, Christopher J. Bell, Harry W. Greene, Journal of Herpetology, Vol. 33, No. 1, pp. 87-92, 1999
♦ 6The Cactus Ferruginous Pygmy-Owl: Taxonomy, Distribution, and Natural History, Jean-Luc E. Cartron, W. Scott Richardson, Glenn A. Proudfoot, USDA Forest Service Gen. Tech. Rep. RMRS-GTR-43. 2000
♦ 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
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