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SCELOPORUS 



SCELOPORUS SQUAMOSUS Bocourt 



I874 Sceloporus squamosus Bocourt, Miss.Sci. Mex.. Rept.: 212, pi. 18 bis, figs, /-/c and pi. I5, 



fig. 3. Type-locality: Guatemala [? city]; Antigua, I5OO m; and embayment of R'o Nagualate; 

 Guatemala. 



18/4 Sceloporus fulvus Bocourt. Miss. Sc i . Mex., Rept.: 214, pi, 18 bis, figs. 8-8c. Type-locality: 

 La Union, Salvador. 



1939 Sceloporus squamosus — Smith, Zool. Ser. Field Mus. Nat. Hist., 26: 3I5, pi. 24. 



Distribution: Low and moderate elevations from eastern Chiapas, Mexico, along Pacific slope to 

 Costa Rica; dry valleys on Caribbean slope of Guatemala and Honduras, also on southeastern high- 

 lands of Guatemala. 



SCELOPORUS TEAPENSIS GUnther 



1830 Sceloporus teapensis Günther, Biol. Cent. Amer., Rept.: 75. Type-locality: Teapa, Tabasco, 



Mex ico. 

 1333 Sceloporus teapensis — Smith, Zool. Ser. Field Mus. Nat. Hist., 26: 256, pi. 21. 



Distribution: Low and moderate elevations along Caribbean slope; southern Veracruz, Mexico to 

 eastern Guatemala, excluding outer end of Yucatin Peninsula. 



SCELOPORUS VARIABILIS Wiegmann 



1834 Sc[eloporus ] var iab il is Wiegmann, Herpetologia Mexicana: 51- Type-locality: Mexico; restricted 

 to Veracruz, Mexico by Smith and Taylor, Bull. U.S. Nat. Mus., l??, I95O, I3O. 



Distribution: Mexico to Costa Rica. 



Content: Four subspecies, two of which ( marmoratus Hallowell and sm i th i Hartweg and Oliver) are 

 extral im i tal. 



Key to the subspecies Clave de subespecies 



1. Total femoral pores more than 20 1. Poros femorales en total más de 20 



var iab il is var i ab i 1 i s 



Femoral pores fewer than 20 olloporus Poros femorales menos de 20 olloporus 



Sceloporus var i ab il i s var iab 11 i s 



1334 Sceloporus variabilis variabilis — Smith, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, 4/: 128. 



Distribution: Low, moderate and intermediate elevations from Tamaulipas and Queretaro, 

 Mexico, south on plateau and on Caribbean slope to Isthmus of Tehuantepec, thence through 

 valley of R'o Grijalva, Chiapas, Mexico, through headwater valleys of same river in 

 Guatemala. 



Sceloporus var iab il i s olloporus Smith 



1937 Sceloporus var iab i 1 i s olloporus Smith, Occ. Pap. Mus. Zool. Univ. Mich., 35^' H» Type- 

 locality: San Juanillo, Costa Rica. 



Distribution: Low and moderate elevations from dry basins of central Guatemala into northern 

 and central Honduras and south along Pacific slope to Costa Rica. 



