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    Species Accepted

    Sceloporus poinsettii Baird & Girard, 1852

    Crevice 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

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      Crevice Spiny Lizard English
      Lagartija de las Grietas Spanish
      Lagartija espinosa norteña de grieta Spanish
      Lagarto-espinhoso-das-fendas Portuguese
      Nordlig Spaltetornleguan Danish
      Northern Crevice Spiny Lizard
      Southern Crevice Lizard
      Stachelleguan German
      Western Crevice Lizard

      Bibliography

      Source: Catalogue of Life

      81 results
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      Stebbins, R. C. (1985). A Field Guide to Western Reptiles and Amphibians, 2nd ed. Houghton Mifflin, Boston.
      Van Denburgh, & John. (1922). The Reptiles of Western North America. Volume I. Lizards. Occ. Pap. Cal. Acad. Sci. (10): 1–612.
      Smith, H. M. (1939). The Mexican and Central American lizards of the genus Sceloporus. Field Mus. Nat. Hist., Zool. Ser. 26: 1-397.
      Woolrich-Piña, Guillermo A, Paulino Ponce-Campos, Jesús Loc-Barragán, Juan Pablo Ramírez-Silva, Vicente Mata-Silva, Jerry D. Johnson, Elí García-Padilla and Larry David Wilson. (2016). The herpetofauna of Nayarit, Mexico: composition, distribution, and conservation status. Mesoamerican Herpetology 3 (2): 376-448.
      Schmidt, K.P., and D. Owens. (1944). Amphibians and reptiles of northern Coahuila, Mexico. Field Museum of Natural History, Zoological Series. Chicago. 29: 97-115.
      McDiarmid, R.W., Copp, J.F., & Breedlove, D.E. (1976). Notes on the herpetofauna of western Mexico: new records from Sinaloa and the Tres Marias Islands. Contributions in Science, Los Angeles (275): 1-17.
      Giermakowski, J. T., & Christman, B. L. (2012). Geographic distribution: Sceloporus poinsettii (crevice spiny lizard). Herpetological Review 43: 619.
      Cooper Jr., W.E.; Vitt, L.J.; Caldwell, J.P. & Fox, S.F. (2005). Relationships among foraging variables, phylogeny, and foraging modes, with new data for nine North American lizard species. Herpetologica 61 (3): 250-259.
      Lemos-Espinal, J. A., & Smith, H. M. (2007). Amphibians and reptiles of the state of Chihuahua, Mexico. Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, 613 Pp.

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