This awesome lizard is a male Sceloporus magister. From Wordnik.com. [My herps are cooler than your herps] Reference
All Sceloporus have blue patches on their belly; the males always have a more intense coloration. From Wordnik.com. [My herps are cooler than your herps] Reference
The genus clade Sceloporus is broadly distributed across the United States, and some species occur as far south as Panama. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-05-01] Reference
Among lizards, there are 50 species of the genus Sceloporus, six of which are endemic, and 14 species of Anolis, two of which are endemic. From Wordnik.com. [Biological diversity in the Madrean pine-oak woodlands] Reference
Last post, I put up a picture of the ventral side of S. magister and mentioned that all of the Sceloporus have blue belly patches, at least on the males. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-05-01] Reference
Clark's spiny (Sceloporus clarki), Yarrow's spiny (S. jarrovi), bunchgrass (S. scalaris), and striped plateau (S. virgatus) are just a few of the lizards in this ecoregion. From Wordnik.com. [Sierra Madre Occidental pine-oak forests] Reference
Brigham Young University, began surveying populations of Sceloporus (i.e. spiny) lizards. From Wordnik.com. [Rainforest Portal RSS Newsfeed] Reference
Sceloporus lizards, also known as the fence or the spiny lizard, are common and come in many colors and sizes. From Wordnik.com. [Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming RSS Newsfeed] Reference
Sceloporus lizards, like most others, are diurnal - active during the day - and cold-blooded, so they can't regulate their body temperature. From Wordnik.com. [Rainforest Portal RSS Newsfeed] Reference
Sceloporus lizard at 200 sites in Mexico - populations for which they already had data going back to 1975, when the sites were first surveyed. From Wordnik.com. [Rainforest Portal RSS Newsfeed] Reference
Several years ago, the research team visited 200 places in Mexico where in 1975 biologists had recorded the presence of basking lizards of the Sceloporus genus, 48 species in all. From Wordnik.com. [Rainforest Portal RSS Newsfeed] Reference
Painter DL, Moore MC (2005) Steroid hormone metabolism by the chorioallantoic placenta of the mountain spiny lizard Sceloporus jarrovi as a possible mechanism for buffering maternal-fetal hormone exchange. From Wordnik.com. [PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles] Reference
Lizards are numerous, including Bailey's collared lizard (Crotaphytus collaris baileyi), western earless lizard (Holbrookia maculata approximans), southern brownshouldered uta (Uta stansburiana elegans), striped swift (Sceloporus consobrinus), and horned toads (Phrynosoma sp.). From Wordnik.com. [Tseh So, a Small House Ruin, Chaco Canyon, New Mexico :] Reference
Some reptiles and amphibians restricted to sky island habitats include the ridge-nosed rattlesnake (Crotalus willardi), twin-spot rattlesnake (C. pricei), cat-eyed snake (Leptodeira septentrioalis), Yarrow’s spiny lizard (Sceloporus jarrovii), Chricahua elopard frog (Rana chircahuaensis), and canyon spotted whiptail (Cneidophorus burti). From Wordnik.com. [Chihuahuan desert] Reference
Sceloporus occidentalis. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-05-01] Reference
fl oated down 'k'iwo'-dahyiwilxa: l salmon-liver, fi sh-liver a limb falls from a tree; na: • k'iq'aylosch'e' the liver of an eel k'iwila: t a limb fell lizard: jime: l (or dzime: l) a type of lizard (Sceloporus, limit: no: - down to a position of rest, to a limit (verb scaly lizard) pre fi x): nong'awh put it (e.g., stone) down (in a resting • tse: - me: w-na: k'ixo: 'a: n. From Wordnik.com. [Recently Uploaded Slideshows] Reference
Lizard, Eastern Fence Sceloporus undulatus 154, 206, 292. From Wordnik.com. [The Field Guide to Wildlife Habitats of the Eastern United States] Reference
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