Sceloporus serrifer

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Blue Spiny Lizard
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Squamata
Suborder: Sauria
Family: Phrynosomatidae
Genus: Sceloporus
Species: S. serrifer
Binomial name
Sceloporus serrifer
Cope, 1866

The Blue Spiny Lizard (Sceloporus serrifer) is a species of lizard that ranges from the United States in southern Texas, through the eastern states of Mexico, to Central America in Guatemala and Belize.

[edit] Subspecies

There are four recognized subspecies of S. serrifer, but the subspecies are known to intergrade in areas where their geographic ranges overlap, so differentiating them can be difficult:

  • Blue Spiny Lizard, Sceloporus serrifer cyanogenys (Cope, 1885)
  • West Gulf Spiny Lizard, Sceloporus serrifer plioporus (Smith, 1939)
  • Sceloporus serrifer prezygus (Smith, 1942)
  • Yucatán Spiny Lizard, Sceloporus serrifer serrifer (Cope, 1866)

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