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    Species Accepted

    Sceloporus pyrocephalus Cope, 1864

    Boulder Spiny Lizard

    Classification and descendants

    Source: Catalogue of Life

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      Vernacular names

      Source: Catalogue of Life

      8 results
      Boulder Spiny Lizard English
      Lagartija de Cabeza de Pira Spanish
      Lagartija espinosa de cabeza roja Spanish
      Lagartija espinosa de pedregal Spanish
      Lagartija-escamosa de pedregal Spanish
      Lagarto-espinhoso-dos-pedregulhos Portuguese
      Red-headed Spiny Lizard English
      Rødhovedet Tornleguan Danish

      Bibliography

      Source: Catalogue of Life

      23 results
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      Lemos-Espinal JA, Smith GR, Pierce LJS, & Painter CW. (2020). The amphibians and reptiles of Colima, Mexico, with a summary of their conservation status. ZooKeys 927: 99-125.
      García, A., & Ceballos, G. (1994). GUIA DE CAMPO DE LOS REPTILES Y ANFIBIOS DE LA COSTA DE JALISCO, MEXICO. Fundacion Ecologica de Cuixmala, a.c. Instituto de Biologia, Unam.
      Lemos-Espinal, Julio A.; Christopher B. Dayer, Christopher J. Dibble, Allison Headly, Kyle H. Sheetz, Wesley O. Smith, Andrew J. Terlecky, Christy M. McCain & Geoffrey R. Smith. (2025). Sexual Size Dimorphism of Two Species of the Sceloporus Pyrocephalus Species Group from Mexico. Current Herpetology Aug 2025 Vol. 44, No. 2: 210-218.
      Smith, H. M. (1939). The Mexican and Central American lizards of the genus Sceloporus. Field Mus. Nat. Hist., Zool. Ser. 26: 1-397.
      Smith, H. M., & Taylor, E. H. (1950). An annotated checklist and key to the reptiles of Mexico exclusive of the snakes. Bull. US Natl. Mus. 199: 1-253.
      Garduño-Montes de Oca EU, López-Caballero JD, & Mata-López R. (2017). New records of helminths of Sceloporus pyrocephalus Cope (Squamata, Phrynosomatidae) from Guerrero and Michoacán, Mexico, with the description of a new species of Thubunaea Seurat, 1914 (Nematoda, Physalopteridae). ZooKeys 716: 43-62.
      Fitch, H. S. (1978). Sexual size differences in the genus Sceloporus. Univ. Kansas Sci. Bull. 51 (13): 441-461.
      Lemos-Espinal JA, & Smith GR. (2020). A conservation checklist of the amphibians and reptiles of the State of Mexico, Mexico with comparisons with adjoining states. ZooKeys 953: 137-159.
      Bell, E.L.; Smith, H.M. & Chiszar, D. (2003). AN ANNOTATED LIST OF THE SPECIES-GROUP NAMES APPLIED TO THE LIZARD GENUS SCELOPORUS. Acta Zoologica Mexicana (N.S.) 90: 103-174.

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