Southwestern fence lizard

Southwestern fence lizard
A male in New Mexico
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Family: Phrynosomatidae
Genus: Sceloporus
Species: S. cowlesi
Binomial name
Sceloporus cowlesi
Lowe & Norris, 1956
Synonyms

Sceloporus undulatus cowlesi

The southwestern fence lizard (Sceloporus cowlesi) also known as the White Sands prairie lizard or the White Sands swift is species of spiny lizard native to the Chihuahuan Desert of the southwest United States and north-central Mexico. Described in 1956 as Sceloporus undulatus cowlesi, subspecies of the eastern fence lizard,[1] DNA studies elevated the southwestern fence lizard to species status.[2]

The following cladogram is based on Leaché and Reeder, 2002,[2] and shows the relationship of a S. cowlesi to other species in the "Sceloporus undulatus group".



undulatus species group


S. cowlesi



S. cautus






S. tristichus




S. consobrinus



S. woodi





S. undulatus





S. virgatus




S. occidentalis



References

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Sceloporus cowlesi.
  1. Lowe, Charles H.; Norris, Kenneth S. (1956). "A subspecies of the lizard Sceloporus undulatus from the White Sands of New Mexico". Herpetologica 12: 125–127. JSTOR 3889937.
  2. 1 2 Leaché, Adam D.; Reeder, Tod W. (2002). "Molecular systematics of the eastern fence lizard (Sceloporus undulatus): A comparison of parsimony, likelihood, and Bayesian approaches". Systematic Biology 51 (1): 44–68. doi:10.1080/106351502753475871.
This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the Wednesday, August 26, 2015. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.