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    Species Accepted

    Urosaurus lahtelai Rau & Loomis, 1977

    Baja California Brush Lizard
    EukaryotaAnimalia...Urosaurus
    IUCNLeast Concern

    Classification and descendants

    Source: Catalogue of Life

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      Vernacular names

      Source: Catalogue of Life

      5 results
      Baja California Brush Lizard English
      Cataviña Brush Lizard English
      Lagartija de árbol de Baja California Spanish
      Lagartija-arbolera de Baja California Spanish
      Roñito de Matorral Bajacaliforniano Spanish

      Bibliography

      Source: Catalogue of Life

      9 results
      A new species of Urosaurus (Reptilia, Lacertilia, Iguanidae) from Baja California, Mexico. (1977). Journal Herpet, 11(1), 25–29. https://doi.org/10.2307/1563287 10.2307/1563287Published in
      Stebbins, R. C. (1985). A Field Guide to Western Reptiles and Amphibians, 2nd ed. Houghton Mifflin, Boston.
      Jones, L. L., & Lovich, R. E. (2009). Lizards of the American Southwest. A photographic field guide. Rio Nuevo Publishers, Tucson, AZ, 568 Pp. [Review in Reptilia 86: 84].
      Liner, Ernest A. (2007). A CHECKLIST OF THE AMPHIBIANS AND REPTILES OF MEXICO. Louisiana State University Occasional Papers of the Museum of Natural Science 80: 1-60.
      Rau, C. S., & Loomis, R. B. (1977). A new species of Urosaurus (Reptilia, Lacertilia, Iguanidae) from Baja California, Mexico. Journal of Herpetology 11 (1): 25-29.
      Peralta-García A, Valdez-Villavicencio JH, Fucsko LA, Hollingsworth BD, Johnson JD, Mata-Silva V, Rocha A, DeSantis DL, Porras LW, and Wilson LD. (2023). The herpetofauna of the Baja California Peninsula and its adjacent islands, Mexico: composition, distribution, and conservation status. Amphibian & Reptile Conservation 17(1&2): 57–142.
      Feldman, Chris R.; Oscar Flores-Villela, Theodore J. Papenfuss. (2011). Phylogeny, biogeography, and display evolution in the tree and brush lizard genus Urosaurus (Squamata: Phrynosomatidae). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 61 (3): 714-725.
      Gottscho, Andrew D.; Bradford D. Hollingsworth, Julio Lemos Espinal, Adam D. Leaché, Tod W. Reeder, Kevin de Queiroz. (2025). Comparative Phylogeography of Phrynosomatid Lizards in Baja California: Asynchronous Divergences and Expansion of Callisaurus draconoides Across the North American Deserts,. J. Biogeogr. E70075.
      Heimes, P. (2022). LIZARDS OF MEXICO - Part 1 Iguanian lizards. Edition Chimaira, Frankfurt Am Main, 448 Pp.

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