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Uma scoparia (Mojave Fringe-toed Lizard)

Wikipedia Abstract

The Mojave fringe-toed lizard (Uma scoparia), is a species of medium-sized, white or grayish, black-spotted diurnal lizard in the family Phrynosomatidae. It is adapted to living in sand dunes in the Mojave Desert. It ranges from Los Angeles County, Riverside County, and San Bernardino County in California to extreme western Arizona in La Paz County. The Mojave fringe-toed lizard is omnivorous.
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Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  17.5 grams
Habitat Substrate [2]  Terrestrial
Litter Size [3]  3
Reproductive Mode [2]  Oviparous
Snout to Vent Length [3]  3.15 inches (8 cm)
Speed [4]  4.026 MPH (1.8 m/s)

Ecoregions

Name Countries Ecozone Biome Species Report Climate Land
Use
Mojave desert United States Nearctic Deserts and Xeric Shrublands

Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Death Valley National Park II 762125 California, Nevada, United States
Joshua Tree National Park II 305076 California, United States
Mojave and Colorado Deserts Biosphere Reserve 5901 California, United States  

Habitat Vegetation Classification

Name Location  Website 
Mojave-Sonoran Bajada & Valley Desert Scrub Mexico (Sonora); United States (New Mexico, Nevada, Arizona, California)

Consumers

Parasitized by 
Skrjabinoptera phrynosoma <Unverified Name>[5]

Range Map

External References

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Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Length–weight allometries in lizards, S. Meiri, Journal of Zoology 281 (2010) 218–226
♦ 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
♦ 3Nathan 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
♦ 4Environmental differences in substrate mechanics do not affect sprinting performance in sand lizards (Uma scoparia and Callisaurus draconoides), Wyatt L. Korff, and Matthew J. McHenry, The Journal of Experimental Biology 214, 122-130 (2011)
♦ 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
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