Desert Spiny Lizard (Sceloporus magister)

Created: March 22nd, 2010 - 02:14 PM
Last Modified: January 8th, 2012 - 08:49 AM Entered by: Terrence Cox
Record 40586

Country: United States		State: Arizona	County: Pima County	Time: 2010-03-15 00:00:00
Qty: 1	Age: Sub-Adult	Sex: --	Method: Debris flipping	Habitat: river floodplain
Body Temperature: -----		Air Temperature: 48.00F	Ground Temperature: -----	Humidity: -----
Sky Conditions: Clear		Moon Phase: -----	Elevation: 3000.00ft	Barometric Pressure: -----

Notes

My first record of Clark's spiny from this type of habitat. I've found them in the river floodplain before, but this time I had lizardman and tantilla with me, and between the three of us got a positive i.d. on the species.

4-21-10. I got a positive i.d. on two mature S. magister's this week in the same habitat and now think the first lizard is an immature desert spiny and not a Clark's. I'll add the photo of this record which we thought was a Clark's at first, but I now consider this a questionable record. I'll assume it's a magister until I can get positive proof that there are Clark's in the river floodplain. TC.

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Comments

Posted by Terrence Cox on Jan 08, 2012 at 08:21 AM

Thanks, Jackson. I'm now thinking all the spinies in the Santa Cruz River floodplain are magister. It is out of the range of the Clark's spiny, which is mid-level elevation of the Santa Rita Mountains. We have no proven records of Clark's from the floodplain, yet.

Posted by Jackson Shedd on Nov 13, 2011 at 09:17 PM

Yes, this looks like S. magister.