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Sceloporus poinsettii (Crevice Spiny Lizard)

Wikipedia Abstract

The crevice spiny lizard (Sceloporus poinsettii ) is a species of small, phrynosomatid lizard.
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Infraspecies

Sceloporus poinsettii amydrus
Sceloporus poinsettii axtelli
Sceloporus poinsettii macrolepis (Western Crevice Lizard)
Sceloporus poinsettii poinsettii (northern crevice spiny lizard)
Sceloporus poinsettii polylepis (Southern Crevice Lizard)

Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  31 grams
Birth Weight [1]  1 grams
Female Weight [1]  31 grams
Habitat Substrate [2]  Saxicolous, Terrestrial
Litter Size [1]  11
Litters / Year [1]  1
Maximum Longevity [3]  8 years
Reproductive Mode [2]  Viviparous
Snout to Vent Length [1]  4.331 inches (11 cm)

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

Accipiter cooperii (Cooper's Hawk)[4]
Buteo albonotatus (Zone-tailed Hawk)[4]
Falco sparverius (American Kestrel)[4]

Consumers

Parasitized by 
Atractis penneri <Unverified Name>[5]
Physaloptera retusa[5]
Skrjabinoptera phrynosoma <Unverified Name>[5]
Spauligodon giganticus[5]

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
♦ 3de 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
♦ 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.
♦ 5Gibson, 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