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Reptilia    Squamata (part)    Phrynosomatidae  

Small-scaled Lizard
Urosaurus microscutatus (Van Denburgh, 1894)

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

Range maps are based on curated specimens and provided gratis by CNAH.
(Created by Travis W. Taggart; Version: 2024.04.15.07.47.09)
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First instance(s) of published English names:
No historic English names have been assigned to this taxon yet.

Taxon Links:

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

Pertinent LIterature:
1894 Van Denburgh, John. Descriptions of three new lizards from California and lower California, with a note on Phrynonsoma blainvillii. Proceedings of the California Academy of Science, Series 2 4():296-301
1999 Aguirre-Lean, Gustavo, David J. Morafka, and Robert W. Murphy. The peninsular archipelago of Baja California: A thousand kilometers of tree lizard genetics. Herpetologica 55(3):369-381
2015 Gottscho, Andrew D. Lineage diversification of lizards (Phrynosomatidae) in southwestern North America: Integrating genomics and geology. Dissertation. University of California Riverside and San Diego State University, San Diego, California. 242pp.

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