Editing Spiny lizard (section)

==Taxonomy==
The 114 [[species]] in the genus ''Sceloporus'' are organized into 21 species groups. However, their relationships to each other are currently under review.{{clarify|date=January 2014}} Listed below are species of ''Sceloporus'':<ref>{{EMBL genus|genus=Sceloporus}}. www.reptile-database.org.</ref><ref>"''Sceloporus'' ". ITIS. www.itis.gov.</ref>

===Species===
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*''[[Sceloporus acanthinus]]'' {{small|[[Marie Firmin Bocourt|Bocourt]], 1873}}
*''[[Sceloporus adleri]]'' {{small|[[Hobart Muir Smith|H.M. Smith]] & [[species:Alan H. Savitzky|Savitzky]], 1974}}
*''[[Sceloporus aeneus]]'' {{small|[[Arend Friedrich August Wiegmann|Wiegmann]], 1828}}
*''[[Sceloporus albiventris]]'' {{small|H.M. Smith, 1939}}
*''[[Sceloporus anahuacus]]'' {{small|[[species:Guillermo Lara-Góngora|Lara-Góngora]], 1983}}
*''[[Sceloporus angustus]]'' {{small|([[Mary Cynthia Dickerson|Dickerson]], 1919)}} – Santa Cruz Island sator
*''[[Sceloporus arenicolus]]'' {{small|[[species:William G. Degenhardt|Degenhardt]] & [[species:Kirkland L. Jones|K.L. Jones]], 1972}} – dunes sagebrush lizard
*''[[Sceloporus asper]]'' {{small|[[George Albert Boulenger|Boulenger]], 1897}}
*''[[Sceloporus aurantius]]'' {{small|[[species:Jared A. Grummer|Grummer]] & [[species:Robert W. Bryson Jr.|Bryson]], 2014}}<ref>{{cite journal|last=Grummer|first=Jared A.|author-link=species:Jared A. Grummer|last2=Bryson|first2=Robert W. Jr|author2-link=species:Robert W. Bryson Jr.|year=2014|title=A new species of bunchgrass lizard (Squamata: Phrynosomatidae) from the southern sky islands of the Sierra Madre Occidental, Mexico|url=http://www.mapress.com/zootaxa/2014/f/z03790p450f.pdf|journal=Zootaxa|volume= 3790|issue=3|pages=439–450|doi=10.11646/zootaxa.3790.3.3|pmid=24869877}}</ref>
*''[[Sceloporus aureolus]]'' {{small|H.M. Smith, 1942}}
*''[[Sceloporus becki]]'' {{small|[[John Van Denburgh|Van Denburgh]], 1905}} – island fence lizard
*''[[Sceloporus bicanthalis]]'' {{small|H.M. Smith, 1937}}
*''[[Sceloporus bimaculosus]]'' {{small|[[species:Robert L. Phelan|Phelan]] & [[species:Bayard H. Brattstrom|Brattstrom]], 1955}} – two-spotted spiny lizard
*''[[Sceloporus binocularis]]'' {{small|Dunn, 1936}}
*''[[Sceloporus brownorum]]'' {{small|H.M. Smith et al., 1997}}
*''[[Sceloporus bulleri]]'' {{small|Boulenger, 1895}}
*''[[Sceloporus caeruleus]]'' {{small|H.M. Smith, 1936}}
*''[[Sceloporus carinatus]]'' {{small|H.M. Smith, 1936}}
*''[[Sceloporus cautus]]'' {{small|H.M. Smith, 1938}}
*''[[Sceloporus chaneyi]]'' {{small|[[species:Ernest Anthony Liner|Liner]] & [[James R. Dixon|Dixon]], 1992}}
*''[[Sceloporus chrysostictus]]'' {{small|[[Edward Drinker Cope|Cope]], 1866}} – yellow-spotted spiny lizard, Yucatán spiny lizard
*''[[Sceloporus clarkii]]'' {{small|[[Spencer Fullerton Baird|Baird]] & [[Charles Frédéric Girard|Girard]], 1852}} – Clark's spiny lizard
*''[[Sceloporus consobrinus]]'' {{small|Baird & Girard, 1854}} – southern prairie lizard
*''[[Sceloporus couchii]]'' {{small|Baird, 1859}}
*''[[Sceloporus cowlesi]]'' {{small|[[Charles Herbert Lowe|Lowe]] & [[Kenneth S. Norris|Norris]], 1956}} – southwestern fence lizard
*''[[Sceloporus cozumelae]]'' {{small|[[species:J. Paul Jones|J.P. Jones]], 1927}}
*''[[Sceloporus cryptus]]'' {{small|H.M. Smith & [[:fr:John Douglas Lynch|Lynch]], 1967}}
*''[[Sceloporus cupreus]]'' {{small|Bocourt, 1873}}
*''[[Sceloporus cyanogenys]]'' {{small|Cope, 1885}}
*''[[Sceloporus cyanostictus]]'' {{small|[[species:Ralph William Axtell|R.W. Axtell]] & [[species:Carol A. Axtell|C.A. Axtell]], 1971}}<ref name="Wiens">{{cite journal|last=Wiens|first=John J.|author-link=species:John Joseph Wiens|last2=Penkrot|first2=Tonya A.|author2-link=species:Tonya A. Penkrot|title=Delimiting Species Using DNA and Morphological Variation and Discordant Species Limits in Spiny Lizards (''Sceloporus'')|journal=Systematic Biology|date=2002|volume=51|issue=1|pages=69–91|doi=10.1080/106351502753475880|pmid=11943093|doi-access=free}}</ref>
*''[[Sceloporus dixoni]]'' {{small|Bryson & Grummer, 2021}}
*''[[Sceloporus druckercolini]]'' {{small|[[species:Edmundo Pérez-Ramos|Pérez-Ramos]] & [[species:Lucia Saldaña de la Riva|Saldaña-de La Riva]], 2008}}
*''[[Sceloporus dugesii]]'' {{small|Bocourt, 1874}}
*''[[Sceloporus edbelli]]'' {{small|H.M. Smith, [[species:David Chiszar|Chiszar]] & [[species:Julio A. Lemos-Espinal|Lemos-Espinal]], 2003}}
*''[[Sceloporus edwardtaylori]]'' {{small|H.M. Smith, 1936}}
*''[[Sceloporus esperanzae]]'' {{small|McCranie, 2018}}
*''[[Sceloporus exsul]]'' {{small|Dixon, [[species:Chesley Arthur Ketchersid|Ketchersid]] & [[species:Carl S. Lieb|Lieb]], 1972}}
*''[[Sceloporus formosus]]'' {{small|Wiegmann, 1834}}
*''[[Sceloporus gadoviae]]'' {{small|Boulenger, 1905}}
*''[[Sceloporus gadsdeni]]'' {{small|[[species:Gamaliel Castañeda-Gaytán|Castañeda-Gaytán]] & [[species:Brenda Díaz-Cárdenas|Díaz-Cárdenas]], 2017}}
*''[[Sceloporus goldmani]]'' {{small|H.M. Smith, 1937}}
*''[[Sceloporus graciosus]]'' {{small|Baird & Girard, 1852}} – sagebrush lizard
*''[[Sceloporus grammicus]]'' {{small|Wiegmann, 1828}} – mesquite lizard or graphic spiny lizard
*''[[Sceloporus grandaevus]]'' {{small|(Dickerson, 1919)}}
*''[[Sceloporus halli]]'' {{small|[[species:Marlene M. Dasmann|Dasmann]] & H.M. Smith, 1974}}
*''[[Sceloporus hesperus]]'' {{small|Bryson & Grummer, 2021}}
*''[[Sceloporus heterolepis]]'' {{small|Boulenger, 1895}}
*''[[Sceloporus hondurensis]]'' {{small|McCranie, 2018}}
*''[[Sceloporus horridus]]'' {{small|Wiegmann, 1834}}
*''[[Sceloporus huichol]]'' {{small|Flores-Villela, Smith, Campillo-Garcia, Martinez-Mendez, & Campbell, 2022}}
*''[[Sceloporus hunsakeri]]'' {{small|[[species:William P. Hall|Hall]] & H.M. Smith, 1979}}
*''[[Sceloporus insignis]]'' {{small|[[Robert G. Webb|Webb]], 1967}}
*''[[Sceloporus internasalis]]'' {{small|H.M. Smith & [[species:Carlos Boyd Bumzahem|Bumzahem]], 1955}}
*''[[Sceloporus jalapae]]'' {{small|[[Albert Günther|Günther]], 1890}}
*''[[Sceloporus jarrovii]]'' {{small|Cope, 1875}} – [[H.C. Yarrow|Yarrow's]] spiny lizard<ref name="EDR">[[species:Bo Beolens|Beolens, Bo]]; [[species:Michael Watkins|Watkins, Michael]]; Grayson, Michael (2011). ''The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles''. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. {{ISBN|978-1-4214-0135-5}}. (''Sceloporus jarrovii'', p. 292; ''S. slevin'', p. 245; ''S. tanneri'', p. 260).</ref> 
*''[[Sceloporus lemosespinali]]'' {{small|Lara-Góngora, 2004}}
*''[[Sceloporus licki]]'' {{small|Van Denburgh, 1895}}
*''[[Sceloporus lineatulus]]'' {{small|Dickerson, 1919}}
*''[[Sceloporus lunae]]'' {{small|Bocourt, 1873}}
*''[[Sceloporus lundelli]]'' {{small|H.M. Smith, 1939}}
*''[[Sceloporus macdougalli]]'' {{small|H.M. Smith & Bumzahem, 1953}}
*''[[Sceloporus maculosus]]'' {{small|H.M. Smith, 1934}}
*''[[Sceloporus madrensis]]'' {{small|Olson, 1986}}
*''[[Sceloporus magister]]'' {{small|[[Edward Hallowell (herpetologist)|Hallowell]], 1854}} – desert spiny lizard, ''escorpión''
*''[[Sceloporus malachiticus]]'' {{small|Cope, 1864}}
*''[[Sceloporus marmoratus]]'' {{small|[[Edward Hallowell (herpetologist)|Hallowell]], 1852}} – northern rosebelly lizard
*''[[Sceloporus megalepidurus]]'' {{small|H.M. Smith, 1934}}
*''[[Sceloporus melanogaster]]'' {{small|Cope, 1885}}
*''[[Sceloporus melanorhinus]]'' {{small|Bocourt, 1876}}
*''[[Sceloporus merriami]]'' {{small|[[Leonhard Stejneger|Stejneger]], 1904}} – canyon lizard
*''[[Sceloporus mikeprestoni]]'' {{small|H.M. Smith & Alvarez, 1974}}
*''[[Sceloporus minor]]'' {{small|Cope, 1885}}<ref name="Wiens" />
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*''[[Sceloporus mucronatus]]'' {{small|Cope, 1885}}
*''[[Sceloporus nelsoni]]'' {{small|[[Doris Mable Cochran|Cochran]], 1923}}
*''[[Sceloporus oberon]]'' {{small|H.M. Smith & [[species:Bryce Cardigan Brown|B.C. Brown]], 1941}}<ref name="Wiens" />
*''[[Sceloporus occidentalis]]'' {{small|Baird & Girard, 1852}} – western fence lizard
*''[[Sceloporus ochoterenae]]'' {{small|H.M. Smith, 1934}}
*''[[Sceloporus olivaceus]]'' {{small|H.M. Smith, 1934}} – Texas spiny lizard
*''[[Sceloporus olloporus]]'' {{small|H.M. Smith, 1937}} – southern rosebelly lizard
*''[[Sceloporus omiltemanus]]'' {{small|Günther, 1890}}
*''[[Sceloporus orcutti]]'' {{small|Stejneger, 1893}} – granite spiny lizard
*''[[Sceloporus ornatus]]'' {{small|Baird, 1859}} – ornate spiny lizard
*''[[Sceloporus palaciosi]]'' {{small|Lara-Góngora, 1983}}
*''[[Sceloporus parvus]]'' {{small|H.M. Smith, 1934}}
*''[[Sceloporus poinsettii]]'' {{small|Baird & Girard, 1852}} – crevice spiny lizard
*''[[Sceloporus pyrocephalus]]'' {{small|Cope, 1864}}
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*''[[Sceloporus salvini]]'' {{small|Günther, 1890}}
*''[[Sceloporus samcolemani]]'' {{small|H.M. Smith & Hall, 1974}}
*''[[Sceloporus scalaris]]'' {{small|Wiegmann, 1828}} – light-bellied bunchgrass lizard
*''[[Sceloporus schmidti]]'' {{small|Jones, 1927}}
*''[[Sceloporus scitulus]]'' {{small|Smith, 1942}} – striated emerald lizard
*''[[Sceloporus serrifer]]'' {{small|Cope, 1866}} – blue spiny lizard 
*''[[Sceloporus shannonorum]]'' {{small|[[species:David A. Langebartel|Langebartel]], 1959}}
*''[[Sceloporus siniferus]]'' {{small|Cope, 1870}}
*''[[Sceloporus slevini]]'' {{small|H.M. Smith, 1937}} – [[Joseph Richard Slevin|Slevin's]] bunchgrass lizard<ref name="EDR"/>
*''[[Sceloporus smaragdinus]]'' {{small|Bocourt, 1873}}
*''[[Sceloporus smithi]]'' {{small|[[Norman Edouard Hartweg|Hartweg]] & [[James Arthur Oliver|J.A. Oliver]], 1937}}
*''[[Sceloporus spinosus]]'' {{small|Wiegmann, 1828}}
*''[[Sceloporus squamosus]]'' {{small|Bocourt, 1874}}
*''[[Sceloporus stejnegeri]]'' {{small|H.M. Smith, 1942}}
*''[[Sceloporus subniger]]'' {{small|Poglayen & Smith,H.M. 1958}}
*''[[Sceloporus subpictus]]'' {{small|[[:fr:John Douglas Lynch|J.D. Lynch]] & H.M. Smith, 1965}}
*''[[Sceloporus sugillatus]]'' {{small|H.M. Smith, 1942}}<ref name="Wiens" />
*''[[Sceloporus taeniocnemis]]'' {{small|Cope, 1885}}<!-- BiodiversConserv17:2037. -->
*''[[Sceloporus tanneri]]'' {{small|H.M. Smith & [[species:Kenneth R. Larsen|Larsen]], 1975}} – [[Wilmer W. Tanner|Tanner's]] spiny lizard<ref name="EDR"/>
*''[[Sceloporus teapensis]]'' {{small|Günther, 1890}}
*''[[Sceloporus torquatus]]'' {{small|Wiegmann, 1828}} - crevice swift
*''[[Sceloporus tristichus]]'' {{small|Cope, 1875}} – plateau fence lizard
*''[[Sceloporus undulatus]]'' {{small|([[Louis Augustin Guillaume Bosc|Bosc]] & [[François Marie Daudin|Daudin]], 1801)}} – eastern fence lizard
*''[[Sceloporus unicanthalis]]'' {{small|H.M. Smith, 1937}}
*''[[Sceloporus uniformis]]'' {{small|Phelan & Brattstrom, 1955}} – yellow-backed spiny lizard
*''[[Sceloporus utiformis]]'' {{small|Cope, 1864}}
*''[[Sceloporus vandenburgianus]]'' {{small|Cope, 1896}}
*''[[Sceloporus variabilis]]'' {{small|Wiegmann, 1834}} – rosebelly lizard
*''[[Sceloporus virgatus]]'' {{small|H.M. Smith, 1938}} – striped plateau lizard
*''[[Sceloporus woodi]]'' {{small|Stejneger, 1918}} – Florida scrub lizard
*''[[Sceloporus zosteromus]]'' {{small|Cope, 1863}}
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''[[Nota bene]]'': A [[Binomial nomenclature|binomial authority]] in parentheses indicates that the species was originally described in a genus other than ''Sceloporus''.