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    Species Accepted

    Sceloporus chrysostictus Cope, 1866

    Yellow-spotted Spiny Lizard
    EukaryotaAnimalia...Sceloporus
    IUCNLeast Concern

    Classification and descendants

    Source: Catalogue of Life

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      Synonyms and combinations

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      Vernacular names

      Source: Catalogue of Life

      6 results
      Gulplettet Tornleguan Danish
      Lagartija Escamosa Spanish
      Lagartija escamosa pintas amarillas Spanish
      Lagartija espinosa de puntos amarillos Spanish
      Lagartija-escamosa pintas amarillas Spanish
      Yellow-spotted Spiny Lizard English

      Bibliography

      Source: Catalogue of Life

      31 results
      ORTIZ-MEDINA, JAVIER A.; RICARDO M. PASOS-ENRÍQUEZ & JUAN CHABLÉ-SANTOS. (2022). SCELOPORUS CHRYSOSTICTUS (Yellow spotted Spiny Lizard). ESCAPE BEHAVIOR. Herpetological Review 53 (1): 137–138.
      Aguilar-López JL, Luría-Manzano R, Pineda E, & Canseco-Márquez L. (2021). Selva Zoque, Mexico: an important Mesoamerican tropical region for reptile species diversity and conservation. ZooKeys 1054: 127-153.
      Smith, H. M. (1939). The Mexican and Central American lizards of the genus Sceloporus. Field Mus. Nat. Hist., Zool. Ser. 26: 1-397.
      Köhler, G. (2000). Reptilien und Amphibien Mittelamerikas, Bd 1: Krokodile, Schildkröten, Echsen. Herpeton Verlag, Offenbach, 158 Pp.
      Köhler, G. (2008). Reptiles of Central America. 2nd Ed. Herpeton-Verlag, 400 Pp.
      Colston, Timothy J.; José António L. Barão-Nóbrega, Ryan Manders, Alice Lett, Jamie Wilmott, Gavin Cameron, Sidony Hunter, Adam Radage, Etienne Littlefair, Robert J. Williams, Antonio Lopez Cen, Kathy Slater. (2015). Amphibians and reptiles of the Calakmul Biosphere Reserve, México, with new records. Check List 11 (5): 1759.
      Griffin, R.K., Lewis, T.R., Tzanopoulos, J. et al. (2025). Natural history traits influence winners and losers for herpetological communities in disturbed tropical habitats. Oecologia 207, 52 (2025).
      Campbell, J. A. (1998). Amphibians and reptiles of northern Guatemala, the Yucatán, and Belize. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, Xiii + 380 Pp.
      Penner, J. (1973). Habitat Preference of Sceloporus chrysostictus and Sceloporus cozumelae in the Vicinity of Progreso, Yucatan, Mexico. Bull. Maryland Herpetol. Soc., 9(1): 6-7.
      Lee, J. C. (2000). A field guide to the amphibians and reptiles of the Maya world. Cornell University Press, Ithaca,.

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