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Bunch Grass Lizard
Sceloporus scalaris
Sceloporus scalaris, the light-bellied bunch grass lizard, is a species of small, phrynosomatid lizard.
From the article Sceloporus scalaris on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA), quoted section by section
Description
Bunch grass lizards are typically grey in color, often with orange and yellow coloration around the neck and behind the forelimbs. Males will have more of this vibrant coloration on their underside while female undersides tend to be white. Adults range from 52–62 mm snout-to-vent length (Ortega and Barbault, 1986).
Range & habitat
S. scalaris is widely distributed in Mexico, expanding northward from the Trans-Mexican Volcanic Belt to the southern United States of Arizona and New Mexico. The species is typically found in high elevation grasslands (1500 – 3000 m).
Wikipedia: “Distribution”
What it does
Many species of Sceloporus are ovoviviparous including the scalaris species. Juveniles are seen for the first time in late August (Ortega and Barbault, 1986).
== References ==
Wikipedia: “Reproduction”
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 73954.