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Urosaurus ornatus (Tree Lizard)

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Wikipedia Abstract

The ornate tree lizard (Urosaurus ornatus) is a species of lizard native to the southwestern United States and northwestern Mexico. The species, which formerly was simply called the "tree lizard", has been used to study physiological changes during the fight-or-flight response as related to stress and aggressive competition. Also, its life history and costs of reproduction have been documented in field populations in New Mexico and Arizona. Finally, it has been fairly well studied because it has interesting variation in throat color in males (within a population) that can correlate with different reproductive strategies,
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Infraspecies

Urosaurus ornatus caeruleus
Urosaurus ornatus chiricahuae
Urosaurus ornatus lateralis
Urosaurus ornatus levis (Canyon tree lizard)
Urosaurus ornatus linearis (Lined tree lizard)
Urosaurus ornatus ornatus (Eastern tree lizard)
Urosaurus ornatus schmidti (Big Bend tree lizard)
Urosaurus ornatus schottii (Schotts Tree Lizard)
Urosaurus ornatus symmetricus (Colorado River tree lizard)
Urosaurus ornatus wrighti (Northern tree lizard)

Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  3.5 grams
Diet [2]  Carnivore
Gestation [1]  41 days
Hibernates [2]  Yes
Litter Size [3]  7
Litters / Year [1]  3
Reproductive Mode [4]  Oviparous
Snout to Vent Length [1]  1.968 inches (5 cm)
Habitat Substrate [2]  Arboreal

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)[5]
Buteogallus anthracinus (Common Black-Hawk)[5]

Consumers

Parasitized by 
Parathelandros texanus[6]
Pharyngodon warneri[6]
Spauligodon giganticus[6]

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
♦ 2Myers, P., R. Espinosa, C. S. Parr, T. Jones, G. S. Hammond, and T. A. Dewey. 2006. The Animal Diversity Web (online). Accessed February 01, 2010 at animaldiversity.org
♦ 3Haenel, Gregory. "Effects of habitat on clutch size of ornate tree lizards, Urosaurus ornatus." Western North American Naturalist 71.2 (2011): 247+. Academic OneFile. Web. 15 July 2014.
♦ 4Meiri, 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
♦ 5Jorrit 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.
♦ 6Gibson, 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