Animalia > Chordata > Squamata > Phrynosomatidae > Sceloporus > Sceloporus serrifer

Sceloporus serrifer (Rough-scaled Lizard, Yucatecan Rough-scaled Lizard; Blue spiny lizard)

Synonyms: Sceloporus prezygus; Sceloporus torquatus cyanogenys

Wikipedia Abstract

The blue spiny lizard (Sceloporus serrifer) is a species of phrynosomatid lizard.
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Infraspecies

Sceloporus serrifer prezygus (Chiapan Rough-scaled Lizard)
Sceloporus serrifer serrifer (Blue spiny lizard)

Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  29 grams
Birth Weight [1]  1 grams
Female Weight [1]  29 grams
Habitat Substrate [2]  Arboreal, Saxicolous, Terrestrial
Litter Size [1]  10
Litters / Year [1]  1
Maximum Longevity [3]  7 years
Reproductive Mode [2]  Viviparous
Snout to Vent Length [1]  3.937 inches (10 cm)

Ecoregions

Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Dzilam de Bravo Wetland Reserve 149170 Yucatan, Mexico    
El Parque Estatal Lagunas de Yalahau Wetland Reserve   Yucatan, Mexico  
Maya Multiple Use Area 1156412 Guatemala  
Reserva de la Biosfera El Cielo Biosphere Reserve 353161 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

Consumers

Parasitized by 
Physaloptera retusa[4]
Spauligodon giganticus[4]
Strongyluris similis[4]

Range Map

External References

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
♦ 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