REPTILIA: SQUAMATA: IGUANIDAE: Sceloporus

Sceloporus jarrovii Author and date

Mountain spiny lizard

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Range: Extreme SE Arizona and SW New Mexico south well into central Mexico, on mountains in excess of 5,000 feet elevation.

Diagnosis: A spiny-scaled lizard with black-edged light colored scales, a single thick black collar, and a banded tail.

Description:  

Subadult male mountain spiny lizard.

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Literature:

Smith, Hobart. 1946. Handbook of Lizards: Lizards of the United States and of Canada. Comstock Publishing. ISBN: 0-8014-8236-4.