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Graphic Spiny Lizard
Sceloporus grammicus Wiegmann, 1828

Current SSAR Comments:
There are no current SSAR comments for this taxon.

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First instance(s) of published English names:
Green Tropidolepis (Tropidolepis grammicus: Gray, John E. 1830. A synopsis of the species of the class reptilia. Pages 1-110 in The Animal Kingdom Arranged in Conformity with its Organization by the Baron Cuvier, member of teh Institute of France, with Additional Descriptions of all the Species Hitherto Named, and of many not before noticed. Ninth Volume. Whittaker, Treacher, and Company, London, England. pp.); Line-tailed Spermophile (Sceloporus grammurus grammurus: Brown, Arthur, E. 1902. Report of the Board of Directors. Pages 5-22 in Thirtieth Annual Report of the Board of Directors of the Zoological Society of Philadelphia. Allen, Lane, and Scott, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. pp.); Mesquite Lizard (Sceloporus grammicus: Schmidt, Karl P. 1953. A Check List of North American Amphibians and Reptiles. 6th Edition. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, Illinois. 280pp.); Mesquite Lizard (Sceloporus grammicus disparilis: Schmidt, Karl P. 1953. A Check List of North American Amphibians and Reptiles. 6th Edition. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, Illinois. 280pp.);

Taxon Links:

  
Catalog of American Amphibians and Reptiles
  
The Reptile Database
  
NatureServe
  
iNaturalist
  
GenBank
  
USGS - Nonindigenous Aquatic Species Database

Pertinent LIterature:
1828 Wiegmann, Arend Friedrich August. Beiträge zur Amphibienkunde. [Contributions to amphibian science.] Isis von Oken 21(4):364-383

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