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Sceloporus scalaris (Bunch Grass Lizard)

Wikipedia Abstract

The bunch grass lizard (Sceloporus scalaris) is a species of small, phrynosomatid lizard.
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Infraspecies

Sceloporus scalaris brownorum (Attributes)
Sceloporus scalaris scalaris
Sceloporus scalaris unicanthalis (Southwestern Bunchgrass Lizard) (Attributes)

Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  3.9 grams
Female Weight [2]  5 grams
Gestation [2]  49 days
Litter Size [2]  9
Litters / Year [2]  2
Reproductive Mode [3]  Ovoviviparous
Snout to Vent Length [2]  1.968 inches (5 cm)
Habitat Substrate [3]  Terrestrial

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

Falco sparverius (American Kestrel)[4]

Range Map

External References

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
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