Sceloporus serrifer

Taxobox


image_width = 240px
image_caption = Blue spiny lizard, "Sceloporus serrifer cyanogenys"
name = Blue Spiny Lizard
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Reptilia
ordo = Squamata
subordo = Iguania
familia = Phrynosomatidae
genus = "Sceloporus"
species = "S. serrifer"
binomial = "Sceloporus serrifer"
binomial_authority = 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.

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)

References

*EMBL species|genus=Sceloporus|species=serrifer