Spiny lizard

The 114 species in the genus Sceloporus are organized into 21 species groups. However, their relationships to each other are currently under review.{{clarify|date=January 2014}} Listed below are species of Sceloporus:{{EMBL genus|genus=Sceloporus}}. www.reptile-database.org."Sceloporus ". ITIS. www.itis.gov.

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• Sceloporus acanthinus {{small|Bocourt, 1873}}
• Sceloporus adleri {{small|H.M. Smith & Savitzky, 1974}}
• Sceloporus aeneus {{small|Wiegmann, 1828}}
• Sceloporus albiventris {{small|H.M. Smith, 1939}}
• Sceloporus anahuacus {{small|Lara-Góngora, 1983}}
• Sceloporus angustus {{small|(Dickerson, 1919)}} – Santa Cruz Island sator
• Sceloporus arenicolus {{small|Degenhardt & K.L. Jones, 1972}} – dunes sagebrush lizard
• Sceloporus asper {{small|Boulenger, 1897}}
• Sceloporus aurantius {{small|Grummer & Bryson, 2014}}{{cite journal|last=Grummer|first=Jared A.|author-link=species:Jared A. Grummer|last2=Bryson|first2=Robert W. Jr|author2-link=species:Robert W. Bryson Jr.|year=2014|title=A new species of bunchgrass lizard (Squamata: Phrynosomatidae) from the southern sky islands of the Sierra Madre Occidental, Mexico|url=http://www.mapress.com/zootaxa/2014/f/z03790p450f.pdf|journal=Zootaxa|volume= 3790|issue=3|pages=439–450|doi=10.11646/zootaxa.3790.3.3|pmid=24869877}}
• Sceloporus aureolus {{small|H.M. Smith, 1942}}
• Sceloporus becki {{small|Van Denburgh, 1905}} – island fence lizard
• Sceloporus bicanthalis {{small|H.M. Smith, 1937}}
• Sceloporus bimaculosus {{small|Phelan & Brattstrom, 1955}} – two-spotted spiny lizard
• Sceloporus binocularis {{small|Dunn, 1936}}
• Sceloporus brownorum {{small|H.M. Smith et al., 1997}}
• Sceloporus bulleri {{small|Boulenger, 1895}}
• Sceloporus caeruleus {{small|H.M. Smith, 1936}}
• Sceloporus carinatus {{small|H.M. Smith, 1936}}
• Sceloporus cautus {{small|H.M. Smith, 1938}}
• Sceloporus chaneyi {{small|Liner & Dixon, 1992}}
• Sceloporus chrysostictus {{small|Cope, 1866}} – yellow-spotted spiny lizard, Yucatán spiny lizard
• Sceloporus clarkii {{small|Baird & Girard, 1852}} – Clark's spiny lizard
• Sceloporus consobrinus {{small|Baird & Girard, 1854}} – southern prairie lizard
• Sceloporus couchii {{small|Baird, 1859}}
• Sceloporus cowlesi {{small|Lowe & Norris, 1956}} – southwestern fence lizard
• Sceloporus cozumelae {{small|J.P. Jones, 1927}}
• Sceloporus cryptus {{small|H.M. Smith & Lynch, 1967}}
• Sceloporus cupreus {{small|Bocourt, 1873}}
• Sceloporus cyanogenys {{small|Cope, 1885}}
• Sceloporus cyanostictus {{small|R.W. Axtell & C.A. Axtell, 1971}}{{cite journal|last=Wiens|first=John J.|author-link=species:John Joseph Wiens|last2=Penkrot|first2=Tonya A.|author2-link=species:Tonya A. Penkrot|title=Delimiting Species Using DNA and Morphological Variation and Discordant Species Limits in Spiny Lizards (Sceloporus)|journal=Systematic Biology|date=2002|volume=51|issue=1|pages=69–91|doi=10.1080/106351502753475880|pmid=11943093|doi-access=free}}
• Sceloporus dixoni {{small|Bryson & Grummer, 2021}}
• Sceloporus druckercolini {{small|Pérez-Ramos & Saldaña-de La Riva, 2008}}
• Sceloporus dugesii {{small|Bocourt, 1874}}
• Sceloporus edbelli {{small|H.M. Smith, Chiszar & Lemos-Espinal, 2003}}
• Sceloporus edwardtaylori {{small|H.M. Smith, 1936}}
• Sceloporus esperanzae {{small|McCranie, 2018}}
• Sceloporus exsul {{small|Dixon, Ketchersid & Lieb, 1972}}
• Sceloporus formosus {{small|Wiegmann, 1834}}
• Sceloporus gadoviae {{small|Boulenger, 1905}}
• Sceloporus gadsdeni {{small|Castañeda-Gaytán & Díaz-Cárdenas, 2017}}
• Sceloporus goldmani {{small|H.M. Smith, 1937}}
• Sceloporus graciosus {{small|Baird & Girard, 1852}} – sagebrush lizard
• Sceloporus grammicus {{small|Wiegmann, 1828}} – mesquite lizard or graphic spiny lizard
• Sceloporus grandaevus {{small|(Dickerson, 1919)}}
• Sceloporus halli {{small|Dasmann & H.M. Smith, 1974}}
• Sceloporus hesperus {{small|Bryson & Grummer, 2021}}
• Sceloporus heterolepis {{small|Boulenger, 1895}}
• Sceloporus hondurensis {{small|McCranie, 2018}}
• Sceloporus horridus {{small|Wiegmann, 1834}}
• Sceloporus huichol {{small|Flores-Villela, Smith, Campillo-Garcia, Martinez-Mendez, & Campbell, 2022}}
• Sceloporus hunsakeri {{small|Hall & H.M. Smith, 1979}}
• Sceloporus insignis {{small|Webb, 1967}}
• Sceloporus internasalis {{small|H.M. Smith & Bumzahem, 1955}}
• Sceloporus jalapae {{small|Günther, 1890}}
• Sceloporus jarrovii {{small|Cope, 1875}} – Yarrow's spiny lizardBeolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. {{ISBN|978-1-4214-0135-5}}. (Sceloporus jarrovii, p. 292; S. slevin, p. 245; S. tanneri, p. 260).
• Sceloporus lemosespinali {{small|Lara-Góngora, 2004}}
• Sceloporus licki {{small|Van Denburgh, 1895}}
• Sceloporus lineatulus {{small|Dickerson, 1919}}
• Sceloporus lunae {{small|Bocourt, 1873}}
• Sceloporus lundelli {{small|H.M. Smith, 1939}}
• Sceloporus macdougalli {{small|H.M. Smith & Bumzahem, 1953}}
• Sceloporus maculosus {{small|H.M. Smith, 1934}}
• Sceloporus madrensis {{small|Olson, 1986}}
• Sceloporus magister {{small|Hallowell, 1854}} – desert spiny lizard, escorpión
• Sceloporus malachiticus {{small|Cope, 1864}}
• Sceloporus marmoratus {{small|Hallowell, 1852}} – northern rosebelly lizard
• Sceloporus megalepidurus {{small|H.M. Smith, 1934}}
• Sceloporus melanogaster {{small|Cope, 1885}}
• Sceloporus melanorhinus {{small|Bocourt, 1876}}
• Sceloporus merriami {{small|Stejneger, 1904}} – canyon lizard
• Sceloporus mikeprestoni {{small|H.M. Smith & Alvarez, 1974}}
• Sceloporus minor {{small|Cope, 1885}}

• Sceloporus mucronatus {{small|Cope, 1885}}
• Sceloporus nelsoni {{small|Cochran, 1923}}
• Sceloporus oberon {{small|H.M. Smith & B.C. Brown, 1941}}
• Sceloporus occidentalis {{small|Baird & Girard, 1852}} – western fence lizard
• Sceloporus ochoterenae {{small|H.M. Smith, 1934}}
• Sceloporus olivaceus {{small|H.M. Smith, 1934}} – Texas spiny lizard
• Sceloporus olloporus {{small|H.M. Smith, 1937}} – southern rosebelly lizard
• Sceloporus omiltemanus {{small|Günther, 1890}}
• Sceloporus orcutti {{small|Stejneger, 1893}} – granite spiny lizard
• Sceloporus ornatus {{small|Baird, 1859}} – ornate spiny lizard
• Sceloporus palaciosi {{small|Lara-Góngora, 1983}}
• Sceloporus parvus {{small|H.M. Smith, 1934}}
• Sceloporus poinsettii {{small|Baird & Girard, 1852}} – crevice spiny lizard
• Sceloporus pyrocephalus {{small|Cope, 1864}}

• Sceloporus salvini {{small|Günther, 1890}}
• Sceloporus samcolemani {{small|H.M. Smith & Hall, 1974}}
• Sceloporus scalaris {{small|Wiegmann, 1828}} – light-bellied bunchgrass lizard
• Sceloporus schmidti {{small|Jones, 1927}}
• Sceloporus scitulus {{small|Smith, 1942}} – striated emerald lizard
• Sceloporus serrifer {{small|Cope, 1866}} – blue spiny lizard
• Sceloporus shannonorum {{small|Langebartel, 1959}}
• Sceloporus siniferus {{small|Cope, 1870}}
• Sceloporus slevini {{small|H.M. Smith, 1937}} – Slevin's bunchgrass lizard
• Sceloporus smaragdinus {{small|Bocourt, 1873}}
• Sceloporus smithi {{small|Hartweg & J.A. Oliver, 1937}}
• Sceloporus spinosus {{small|Wiegmann, 1828}}
• Sceloporus squamosus {{small|Bocourt, 1874}}
• Sceloporus stejnegeri {{small|H.M. Smith, 1942}}
• Sceloporus subniger {{small|Poglayen & Smith,H.M. 1958}}
• Sceloporus subpictus {{small|J.D. Lynch & H.M. Smith, 1965}}
• Sceloporus sugillatus {{small|H.M. Smith, 1942}}
• Sceloporus taeniocnemis {{small|Cope, 1885}}
• Sceloporus tanneri {{small|H.M. Smith & Larsen, 1975}} – Tanner's spiny lizard
• Sceloporus teapensis {{small|Günther, 1890}}
• Sceloporus torquatus {{small|Wiegmann, 1828}} - crevice swift
• Sceloporus tristichus {{small|Cope, 1875}} – plateau fence lizard
• Sceloporus undulatus {{small|(Bosc & Daudin, 1801)}} – eastern fence lizard
• Sceloporus unicanthalis {{small|H.M. Smith, 1937}}
• Sceloporus uniformis {{small|Phelan & Brattstrom, 1955}} – yellow-backed spiny lizard
• Sceloporus utiformis {{small|Cope, 1864}}
• Sceloporus vandenburgianus {{small|Cope, 1896}}
• Sceloporus variabilis {{small|Wiegmann, 1834}} – rosebelly lizard
• Sceloporus virgatus {{small|H.M. Smith, 1938}} – striped plateau lizard
• Sceloporus woodi {{small|Stejneger, 1918}} – Florida scrub lizard
• Sceloporus zosteromus {{small|Cope, 1863}}

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Nota bene: A binomial authority in parentheses indicates that the species was originally described in a genus other than Sceloporus.

File:Prairie Lizard (Sceloporus consobrinus) Hardin Co. Texas. photo W. L. Farr.jpg|Prairie lizard (S. consobrinus)

File:Cozumel Spiny Lizard - Flickr - treegrow (1).jpg|Cozumel spiny lizard (S. cozumelae)

File:Sagebrush lizard (Sceloporus graciosus) Ferguzon Canyon, Utah (6288331524).jpg|Sagebrush spiny lizard (S. graciosus)

File:Hare sagebrush-lizard.jpg|Sagebrush lizard (S. graciosus)

File:Desert Spiny Lizard. Grand Canyon, Arizona (25778637054).jpg|Desert spiny lizard (S. magister)

File:Grand Canyon Nat. Park Desert Spiny Lizard (Sceloporus magister) 3411.jpg|Desert spiny lizard (S. magister)

File:Sceloporus variabilis marmoratus, Northern Rose-bellied Lizard, Texas.jpg|Northern rose-bellied Lizard (S. marmoratus)

File:Big Bend Canyon Lizard - Flickr - GregTheBusker (3).jpg|Big Bend canyon lizard (S. merriami annulatus)

File:Sceloporus minor, Minor Spiny Lizard, Tamaulipas.jpg|Minor spiny lizard (S. minor) male

File:Lagarto (Sceloporus mucronatus), Zona arqueológica de Cantona, Puebla, México, 2013-10-11, DD 01.JPG|Cleft spiny lizard (S. mucronatus)

File:Western Fence Lizard (9098617590).jpg|Western fence lizard (S. occidentalis)

File:Texas spiny lizard (Sceloporus olivaceus) basking on a fencepost, Highway 102, Colorado County, Texas, USA (26 March 2017).jpg|Texas spiny lizard (S. olivaceus)

File:Crevice spiny lizard (Sceloporus poinsettii), Mason County, Texas, USA (9 May 2014).jpg|Crevice spiny lizard (S. poinsettii)

File:Sceloporus smithi.jpeg|Spiny lizard (S. smithi)

File:Sceloporus torquatus mikeprestoni, Torquate Lizard, Tamaulipas.jpg|Torquate lizard (S. mikeprestoni)

File:Sceloporus tristichus (29241274333).jpg|Plateau fence lizard (S. tristichus)

File:Lizard on sandstone (Dinosaur National Monument, Utah, USA) 1 (48872735101).jpg|Plateau fence lizard (S. tristichus)

File:Sceloporus variabilis variabilis, Rose-bellied Lizard, Tamaulipas.jpg|Rose-bellied Lizard (S. variabilis)

File:Florida Scrub Lizard (Sceloporus woodi) (6558409167).jpg|Florida scrub lizard (S. woodi)

File:Green Spiny Lizard (49703879952).jpg|Green spiny lizard (S. malachiticus)

File:Green Spiny Lizard (49703563491).jpg|Green spiny lizard (S. malachiticus)

File:Green Spiny Lizard (49703879612).jpg|Green spiny lizard (S. malachiticus)

File:Sceloporus spinosus, Eastern spiny lizard, Tamaulipas.jpg|Eastern spiny lizard (S. spinosus)

• Moloch horridus, an unrelated Australian lizard that is sometimes also referred to as "spiny lizard"

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• Boulenger GA (1885). Catalogue of the Lizards in the British Museum (Natural History). Second Edition. Volume II. Iguanidæ ... London: Trustees of the British Museum (Natural History). (Taylor and Francis, printers). xiii + 497 pp. + Plates I-XXIV. (Genus Sceloporus, p. 216).
• Goin CJ, Goin OB, Zug GR (1978). Introduction to Herpetology, Third Edition. San Francisco: W.H. Freeman. xi + 378 pp. {{ISBN|0-7167-0020-4}}. (Genus Sceloporus, pp. 130, 291).
• Köhler G, Heimes P (2002). Stachelleguane: Lebensweise, Pflege, Zucht [Spiny Lizards: Way of Life, Care, Breeding]. Offenbach, Germany: Herpeton, Verlag Elke Köhler. 174 pp. {{ISBN|3-9806214-9-9}}. (in German).
• Powell R, Conant R, Collins JT (2016). Peterson Field Guide to Reptiles and Amphibians of Eastern and Central North America, Fourth Edition. Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. xiv + 494 pp., 47 Plates, 207 Figures. {{ISBN|978-0-544-12997-9}}. (Genus Sceloporus, p. 292).
• Smith HM (1939). "The Mexican and Central American Lizards of the Genus Sceloporus ". Field Museum of Natural History, Zoological Series 26: 1–429.
• Smith HM, Brodie ED Jr (1982). Reptiles of North America: A Guide to Field Identification. New York: Golden Press. 240 pp. {{ISBN|0-307-13666-3}} (paperback), {{ISBN|0-307-47009-1}} (hardcover). (Genus Sceloporus, p. 114-115).
• Stebbins RC (2003). A Field Guide to Western Reptiles and Amphibians, Third Edition. The Peterson Field Guide Series ®. Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company. xi + 533 pp. 56 plates, 39 figures. {{ISBN|978-0-395-98272-3}}. (Genus Sceloporus, p. 283; Sceloporus species accounts, pp. 283–294).
• Wiegmann AF (1828). "Beyträge zur Amphibienkunde ". Isis von Oken 21 (4): 364–383. (Sceloporus, new genus, p. 369). (in German and Latin).

• [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=agBol7EhHq0 Video of Sceloporus jarrovii in Arizona]
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