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SCELOPORUS 



SCELOPORUS MELANORH I NUS Bocourt 



18/6 SceloDorus melanorh i nus Bocourt, Ann. Sc i . Nat. Zool., Paris, (6) 3, art. 12: 2. Type-locality: 

 Isthmus of Tehuantepec, restricted to Cuidad de Tehuantepec, Mexico, by Smith and Taylor, Bull. 

 U.S. Nat. Mus., 155, 1950j 112. 



Distribution: Nayarit to Oaxaca, Mexico; apparently discontinuous in Chiapas; in R'o Grijalva 

 drainage of Guatemala. 



Content: Three subspecies, two of which ( melanorh i nus Bocourt and call iqaster Smith) are extra- 

 limital. 



Sceloporus melanorh inus stuart i Smith 



1548 Sceloporus melanorh i nus stuart i Smith, Nat. Hist. Misc., Chicago Acad. Sc i . , 20; 1. 

 Type-locality: Finca Canibal, Huehuetenango, Guatemala, about 3OOO ft. 



Distribution: Moderate elevations of valley of Rio Grijalva in Chiapas, Mexico, and head- 

 water valleys in adjacent Guatemala. 



SCELOPORUS PREZYGUS Smith 



1542 Sceloporus prezygus Smith, Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus., 52: 35*' Type-locality: Con jab (between San 

 Bartolomé and Comitan), Chiapas, Mexico; 53OO ft. 



Distribution: Moderate and intermediate elevations on Mesa Central of Chiapas, Mexico, through 

 drier parts of headwater valleys of R'o Grijalva and upper Río Negro of Guatemala. 



SCELOPORUS SERRIFER Cope 



1866 Sceloporus serrifer Cope. Proc. Acad. Nat. Sc i . Phila., 1866: 124. Type-locality: Yucatán, 

 Mexico; restricted by Smith and Taylor, Bull. U.S. Nat. Mus., I55, I55O, 124, to Me'rida, 

 Yucatán, Mex ico. 



Distribution: Tamaulipas, Mexico, to £1. Peten, Guatemala. 



Content: Three subspecies, two ( pi ioporus Smith and car i n iceps Martin) ex tral im i tal . 



Comment: Specimens from Guatemala called Sceloporus serrifer pi ioporus Smith are all Sceloporus 

 prezygus , according to Stuart, Misc. Publ. Mus. Zool. Univ. Mich., 122, I563, 72- 



Sceloporus serr iter serr i f er Cope 



1535 Sceloporus serrifer serrifer — Smith, Zool. Ser. Field Mus. Nat. Hist., 26: 212. 

 Distribution: Yucatán Peninsula south to central El Peten, Guatemala. 



SCELOPORUS SINIFERUS Cope 



I865 Sceloporus s i n if erus Cope, Proc. Amer. Phil. Soc, 11; 159' Type-locality: Pacific side of the 



Isthmus of Tehuantepec, Mexico. 

 1535 Sceloporus sin if erus — Smith, Zool. Ser. Field Mus. Nat. Hist., 26: 313, pi. 25. 



Distribution: Guerrero to western Guatemala; highlands of Oaxaca, Mexico. 



Content: Two subspecies, one ( cupreus Bocourt) extral im i tal. 



Sceloporus s i n if erus s in if erus Cope 



I873 Sceloporus humeral i s Bocourt, Ann. Sc i . Nat. Zool. Paris, (5) 17> art. 10: 2. Type- 

 locality: Oaxaca, Mexico. 

 15'iO Sceloporus siniferus siniferus — Smith and Taylor, Bull. U.S. Nat. Mus., I53: 134. 



Distribution: Low and moderate elevations of Pacific slope; Guerrero, Mexico to Pacific 

 coastal plain of western Guatemala. 



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