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Sceloporus gadoviae
Conservation status
	; Least Concern (IUCN 3.1)
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Reptilia
Order:	Squamata
Suborder:	Iguania
Family:	Phrynosomatidae
Genus:	Sceloporus
Species:	S. gadoviae
Binomial name
	Sceloporus gadoviae; Boulenger, 1905
Synonyms
	Sceloporus gadoviae ; Boulenger, 1905; Lysoptychus gadoviae ; — Larsen & W. Tanner, 1975; Sceloporus gadoviae ; — Liner, 1994;

Sceloporus gadoviae, also known commonly as Gadow's spiny lizard and la espinosa de Gadow in Mexican Spanish, is a species of lizard in the family Phrynosomatidae.^[2] The species is endemic to Mexico.^[1]^[2]

Etymology

The specific name, gadoviae, is in honor of Clara Maud Gadow (née Paget), who was the wife of German-British ornithologist Hans Friedrich Gadow.^[3]

S. gadoviae is found in the Mexican states of Guerrero, Michoacán, Morelos, Oaxaca, and Puebla.^[1]^[2]

The preferred natural habitat of S. gadoviae is rocky areas in forest and shrubland, at altitudes of 1,000–1,800 m (3,300–5,900 ft).^[1]

S. gadoviae is moderate-sized for its genus. Maximum snout-to-vent length (SVL) is 6.8 cm (2.7 in). Dorsally, it is olive-brown.^[4]

S. gadoviae is oviparous.^[2] Clutch size as about four eggs.^[4] Each egg measures about 14 mm × 7.5 mm (0.55 in × 0.30 in).^[4]

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d Canseco-Márquez, L.; Campbell, J.A.; Ponce-Campos, P.; Muñoz-Alonso, A.; García Aguayo, A. (2007). "Sceloporus gadoviae". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2007: e.T64104A12743550.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e Sceloporus gadoviae at the Reptarium.cz Reptile Database. Accessed 10 November 2021.
^ Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. ISBN 978-1-4214-0135-5. (Sceloporus gadoviae, p. 96).
^ ^a ^b ^c Smith HM (1939). "The Mexican and Central American Lizards of the Genus Sceloporus ". Field Museum of Natural History, Zoological Series 26: 1–397. (Sceloporus gadoviae, pp. 373–377).

Boulenger GA (1905). "Descriptions of new Reptiles discovered in Mexico by Dr. H. Gadow, F.R.S." Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1905 (2): 245–247 + Plates VI–VII. (Sceloporus gadoviae, new species, pp. 246–247 + Plate VII, figure 1, four views).
Larsen KR, Tanner WW (1975). "Evolution of the sceloporine lizards (Iguanidae)". Great Basin Naturalist 35 (1): 1–20. (Lysoptychus gadoviae, new combination).
Liner EA (1994). Scientific and Common Names for the Amphibians and Reptiles of Mexico in English and Spanish: Nombres Científicos y Comunes en Ingles y Español de los Anfibios y los Reptiles de México. Herpetological Circular No. 23. Society for the Study of Amphibians and Reptiles (SSAR). iii + 113 pp. (Sceloporus gadoviae) (in English and Spanish).

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