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Sceloporus occidentalis (Pacific blue-bellied lizard)

Synonyms: Sceloporus biseriatus nigro-ventris; Sceloporus longipes; Sceloporus smaragdinus (heterotypic)

Wikipedia Abstract

The western fence lizard (Sceloporus occidentalis) is a common lizard of Arizona, California, Idaho, Nevada, Oregon, Utah, Washington, Northern Mexico, and the surrounding area. As the ventral abdomen of an adult is characteristically blue, it is also known as the blue-belly. It is a member of the genus Sceloporus (the spiny lizards).
View Wikipedia Record: Sceloporus occidentalis

Infraspecies

Sceloporus occidentalis biseriatus (San Joaquin fence lizard)
Sceloporus occidentalis bocourtii (Coast Range Fence Lizard)
Sceloporus occidentalis longipes (Great Basin fence lizard)
Sceloporus occidentalis occidentalis (Northwestern fence lizard)
Sceloporus occidentalis taylori (Sierra fence lizard)

Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  8.5 grams
Birth Weight [1]  1 grams
Gestation [1]  44 days
Litter Size [1]  8
Litters / Year [1]  3
Reproductive Mode [2]  Oviparous
Snout to Vent Length [1]  2.756 inches (7 cm)
Habitat Substrate [2]  Arboreal, Saxicolous, Terrestrial

Predators

External References

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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
♦ 3Jorrit 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.
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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