Big Bend Canyon Lizard (Sceloporus merriami annulatus)

Created: January 31st, 2010 - 09:33 PM
Last Modified: October 15th, 2010 - 11:13 PM Entered by: Jason Folt
Record 37435

Country: United States		State: Texas	County: Brewster County	Time: 2009-06-23 13:32:00
Qty: 1	Age: --	Sex: --	Method: Visual encounter	Habitat: -----
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Comments

Posted by Chris Harrison on Oct 14, 2010 at 09:41 PM

That UT herps of TX website has the subspecies colors wrong. Yellow should be longipunctatus, blue is annulatus and green is merriami. I know this because I screwed mine up using the same site. C.m. longipunctatus is the "Presidio Canyon Lizard". Presidio county is the one in yellow. The Peterson guide has their ranges/ssp. correct.

Posted by Jason Folt on Oct 14, 2010 at 07:13 PM

Again, http://www.zo.utexas.edu/research/txherps/lizards/sceloporus.merriami.html, range maps show annulatus in Presidio Co and m. merriami in Brewster Co?

Posted by Chris Harrison on Oct 14, 2010 at 06:06 PM

This should be merriami annulatus in Brewster county.