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SCELOPORUS 



Sceloporus lundell i lundell i Smith 



iq^q Sceloporus lundelli lundelli Smith. Zool. Ser. Field Mus. Nat. Hist., 26: 66, pi. 4. 



Distribution: Southern parts of Yucatán Peninsula to British Honduras and El Peten, 

 Guatemala. 



SCELOPORUS MALACHITICUS Cope 



1864 Sceloporus malach i t icus Cope, Proc. Acad. Nat, Sc i . Phila., 1864: I78. Type-locality: Near 

 Arriba, Costa Rica. 



Distribution: Veracruz and Chiapas, Mexico, to Panama. 



Content: Five subspecies, of which two ( i nternasal is Smith and Bumzahen and salv i n i Günther) are 

 extra limital. 



Key to the subspecies Clave de siibespecies 



1. Dorsal scales usually more than 37 2 1. Normalmente más de 37 dorsales 2 



Dorsal scales usually less than 38 Normalmente menos de J8 dorsales 



malach it icus malach i t icus 



2. Two canthal scales taen i ocnem i s 2. Dos escamas cantales taen i ocnem i s 



Single canthal scale smaraqdi ñus Una sola escama cantal smaraqdinus 



Sceloporus malach i t icus malach it i cus Cope 



I89O Sceloporus i razuens i s Günther, Biol. Cent. Amer., Rept.: 67. Type-locality: Irazu, Costa 



Rica. 

 1542 [ Sceloporus ] malachit icus malachit icus — SmitK, Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus., 92: 356. 



Distribution: Guatemala to Panama. 



Sceloporus malach i t icus smaraqd i ñus Bocourt 



I873 Sceloporus smaraqd i ñus Bocourt, Ann. Sc i . Nat. Paris, (5) 17> ^rt. 10; 1. Type-locality: 



Solóla, Totonicapan, and Quezaltenango, Guatemala, 2000 m. 

 1927 Sceloporus schm i dt i Jones, Occ. Pap. Mus. Zool. Univ. Mich., 186: 4. Type-locality: 



Mountain camp west of San Pedro, Honduras, 45OO ft. 

 1939 Sceloporus f ormosus smaraqd i nus — Smith, Zool. Ser. Field Mus. Nat. Hist., 26: 41. 

 1942 Sceloporus malach it icus smaraqdi nus — Smith, Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus., 92: 356- 



Distribution: Intermediate and high elevations of plateaus of Guatemala, excluding Alta 

 Verapaz and Caribbean slope of Sierra de los Cuchumatanes. 



Sceloporus malach i t icus taen i ocnem is Cope 



I885 Sceloporus taen i ocnem i s Cope, Proc. Amer. Phil. Soc, 22: 399' Type-locality: Guatemala; 



restricted to Coban, Guatemala, by Smith and Taylor, Bull. U.S. Nat Mus., 199, 195°» 



108. 

 1949 Sceloporus malachiticus taeniocnemis — Smith, Jour. Washington Acad. Sc i . , 39- 39- 



Distribution: Moderate and high elevations of Alta Verapaz and Caribbean slope of Sierra de 

 los Cuchumatanes in Guatemala; Mesa Central and Sierra Madre in Chiapas, Mexico; 

 encircling Sceloporus malach i t icus smaraqd i nus on east, north, and northwest. 



