Sceloporus cryptus

{{Short description|Species of lizard}}

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| status = LC

| status_system = IUCN3.1

| status_ref = {{cite journal |author1=Flores-Villela, O. |author2=Campbell, J.A. | title = Sceloporus cryptus | journal = IUCN Red List of Threatened Species | volume= 2007 | page = e.T64098A12737979 | year = 2007 | url = https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/64098/12737979 }}

| taxon = Sceloporus cryptus

| authority = H.M. Smith & Lynch, 1967

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Sceloporus cryptus, the Sierra Juarez spiny lizard, is a species of lizard in the family Phrynosomatidae.{{NRDB species|genus=Sceloporus |species=cryptus |accessdate=10 November 2021}} It is endemic to Mexico, where it inhabits drier portions of the Sierra Juárez of northeastern Oaxaca, between 1,800 and 2,500 meters elevation.