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Florida Scrub Lizard
Sceloporus woodi Stejneger, 1918

SSAR 9th Edition Comments:
 There are no current SSAR comments for this taxon.

Range maps are based on curated specimens and provided gratis by CNAH.
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Province/State Distribution:
USA: Florida

First instance(s) of published English names:
Florida Scrub Lizard (Sceloporus woodi: 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

Selected References:
1918 Stejneger, Leonhard H. Description of a new snapping turtle and a new lizard from Florida. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 31:89-92
1946 Smith, Hobart M. The status of Sceloporus floridanus Baird. University of Kansas Science Bulletin 31, Pt.1(4):103-106
1973 Jackson, J. F. Distribution and population phenetics of the Florida scrub lizard, Sceloporus woodi. Copeia 1973(4):746-761
1974 Jackson, Dale R. and Jr. S. R. Telford, Jr. Reproductive ecology of the Florida scrub lizard, Sceloporus woodi. Copeia 1974(3):689-694
1977 Lee, David S. and Funderburg, John B. Sceloporus woodi. Catalogue of American Amphibians and Reptiles (196):1-2
1992 Sites, Jack W., Jr., J. W. Archie, C. J. Cole, and O. Flores Villela. A review of phylogenetic hypotheses for lizards of the genus Sceloporus (Phrynosomatidae): Implications for ecological and evolutionary studies. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History (213):1-110
1993 Wiens, John J. Phylogenetic relationships of phrynosomatid lizards and monophyly of the Sceloporus group. Copeia 1993(2):287-299
2002 Miles, Donald B., Robert Noecker, Willem M. Roosenburg, and Matthew M. White. Genetic relationships among populations of Sceloporus undulatus fail to support present subspecific designations. Herpetologica 58(3):277-292
2010 Wiens, John J., Caitlin A. Kuczynski, Saad Arif, and Tod W. Reeder. Phylogenetic relationships of phrynosomatid lizards based on nuclear and mitochondrial data, and a revised phylogeny for Sceloporus. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 54:150-161
2010 Leaché, Adam D. and Jack W. Sites. Chromosome evolution and diversification in North American Spiny Lizards (genus Sceloporus). Cytogenetic and Genome Research 127(2-4):166-191
2010 Leaché, Adam D. Species trees for spiny lizards (Genus Sceloporus): Identifying points of concordance and conflict between nuclear and mitochondrial data. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 2010(54):162-171
2013 Lambert, Shea M. and John J. Wiens. Evolution of viviparity: A phylogenetic test of the cold-climate hypothesis in Phrynosomatid lizards. Evolution 67(9):2614–2630

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