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Sceloporus torquatus (Crevice Swift, Torquate Lizard, Wiegmann's Torquate Lizard)

Synonyms: Agama torquata; Sceloporus binocularis; Sceloporus ferrariperezi; Sceloporus melanogaster

Infraspecies

Sceloporus torquatus binocularis (Nuevo Leon Crevice Swift)
Sceloporus torquatus madrensis (Lesser Torquate Lizard)
Sceloporus torquatus melanogaster (Central Plateau Torquate Lizard)
Sceloporus torquatus mikeprestoni (Preston's Torquate Lizard)
Sceloporus torquatus torquatus

Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  26 grams
Birth Weight [1]  1 grams
Female Weight [1]  26 grams
Habitat Substrate [2]  Saxicolous
Litter Size [1]  9
Litters / Year [1]  1
Reproductive Mode [2]  Viviparous
Snout to Vent Length [1]  3.543 inches (9 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  

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

Range Map

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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
♦ 3Gibson, 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