Uta stansburiana

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Overview

Interesting Facts

Common Names

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Description

Habitat

Typically found at an altitude of 0 to 2,765 meters (0 to 9,072 feet).[1]

Ecology: Habitats include a wide variety of arid and semi-arid situations with scattered bushes and/or scrubby trees ; soil may be sandy, gravelly, or rocky; the species is often found in sandy washes with scattered rocks and bushes (Stebbins 2003). Eggs are buried in sandy soil (Nussbaum et al. 1983).[2].

List of Habitats:

•     3     Shrubland   
  
•     3.4     Shrubland - Temperate   
  
•     3.5     Shrubland - Subtropical/Tropical Dry   
  
•     3.8     Shrubland - Mediterranean-type Shrubby Vegetation   
  
•     8     Desert   
  
•     8.1     Desert - Hot   
  
•     8.2     Desert - Temperate   
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Taxonomy

Synonyms

Uta antiqua BALLINGER & TINKLE 1968< /i> (Fide Grismer 1999) • Uta antiqua Liner 1994 • Uta concinna • Uta mannophora • Uta stansburiana ssp. stejnegeri • Uta stansburiana — Boulenger 1885: 211 • Uta stansburiana — Liner 1994 • Uta stansburiana — Stebbins 1985: 135 • Uta stellata Smith & Taylor 1950: 150 • Uta stellata VAN DENBURGH 1905< /i> (Fide Grismer 1999) • Uta stellata — Liner 1994

Notes

Name Status: Accepted Name .

Comment: Holotype: USNM 12666 (elegans) Holotype: UMMZ 127386 (antiqua) Holotype: CAS 4704 (stellata) GRISMER 1999 synonymized Uta stellata and Uta antiqua with stansburiana because he couldn’t find any characters that consistently differentiate these forms.

See Upton and Murphy (1997) for a phylogeny of Uta based on mtDNA sequences. These data suggest that U. stansburiana from the islands of Angel de la Guarda, Mejia, and Raza should be recognized as a distinct species. However, Grismer (2002) retained these populations in U. stansburiana.

Subspecies stejnegeri (southeastern Arizona to western Texas and southward into north-central Mexico) was proposed as a distinct species by Collins (1991), but Collins did not present supporting data. Stebbins (2003) did not recognize any subspecies.

We follow Grismer (2002) in considering animals on Isla Cedros, formerly considered to be an endemic species U. concinna, as belonging to U. stansburiana.

We follow Grismer (2002) by assigning populations of Uta from Carmen, Danzante, and Coronado Islands in the Gulf of California to the name Uta stansburiana, rather than to the name Uta mannophora Dickerson, 1919, which is presumably a synonym of Uta stansburiana.[2].

Similar Species

Members of the genus Uta

ZipcodeZoo has pages for 9 species and subspecies in this genus:

U. concinna (Dickerson's Side-Blotched Lizard) · U. palmeri (San Pedro Side-Blotched Lizard) · U. stansburiana (Common Side-Blotched Lizard) · U. stansburiana elegans (California Side-Blotched Lizard) · U. stansburiana nevadensis (Nevada Side-Blotched Lizard) · U. stansburiana stansburiana (Northern Side-Blotched Lizard) · U. stejnegeri (Desert Side-Blotched Lizard) · U. stansburiana uniformis (Colorado Side-Blotched Lizard) · U. stejnegeri (Eastern Side-Blotched Lizard)

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Notes

Contributors

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Data Sources

Accessed through GBIF Data Portal February 27, 2008:

• California Academy of Sciences: CAS Herpetology Collection Catalog
• Carnegie Museums: Amphibians and Reptiles
• Cornell University Museum of Vertebrates: Amphibians and Reptiles Collection
• Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History: Vertebrate specimens
• Marine Science Institute, UCSB: Paleobiology Database
• Museum of Southwestern Biology, Division of Amphibians and Reptiles: Museum of Southwestern Biology, Division of Amphibians and Reptiles database
• Museum of Vertebrate Zoology: Terrestrial vertebrate specimens
• Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History: Santa Barbara Musem of Natural History
• Sternberg Museum of Natural History: Herp Collection
• University of Colorado Museum: Zoological specimens
• Yale University Peabody Museum: Peabody Herp Collection DiGIR provider Service

Identifiers

• Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 2546343
• Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: Rep-7639
• Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) Taxonomic Serial Number (TSN): 586157
• IUCN ID: 248174
• Natural Heritage Network Species Identifier: ARACF17010
• Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 177708

Footnotes

1. Mean = 571.870 meters (1,876.214 feet), Standard Deviation = 702.510 based on 538 observations. Altitude information for each observation from British Oceanographic Data Centre. [back]
2. Hammerson, G.A., Frost, D.R. & Santos-Barrera, G. 2007. Uta stansburiana. In: IUCN 2011. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 05 February 2012. [back]

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