Global conservation status: vulnerable (Source: IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2)

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  • English
    • Dunes Sagebrush Lizard
    • Sand Dune Lizard
  • Scientific names
    • Sceloporus arenicolus
    • Sceloporus graciosus arenicolous
    • Sceloporus graciosus arenicolus

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Recent Observations

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What

Dunes Sagebrush Lizard Sceloporus arenicolus

Observer

danjleavitt

Date

Aug 10, 2009

Description

Males generally have more elongate frontal physique, like this dude here.

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Dunes Sagebrush Lizard Sceloporus arenicolus

Observer

danjleavitt

Date

May 22, 2011

Description

Female just turned orange to deter males from mating with her.

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Dunes Sagebrush Lizard Sceloporus arenicolus

Observer

danjleavitt

Date

May 4, 2011

Description

Saw hundreds in the dunes. Looks like they are disappearing from the oil field though...

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Description from Wikipedia

The Dunes Sagebrush Lizard, Sceloporus arenicolus, (formerly known as Sand Dune Lizard and the Dunes-Sagebrush Lizard, Sceloporus graciosus arenicolus, a subspecies of sagebrush lizard), is an insectivorous spiny lizard species which only occurs in the Shinnery oak Sand Dune systems of extreme South-east New Mexico and only four counties in adjacent Texas. Sceloporus arenicolus has the second smallest range of all lizards in the United States.

Source: IUCN 2010. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2010.4. http://www.iucnredlist.org/technical-documents/spatial-data. Downloaded March 2011.