Talk:Spiny lizard

Species identification
Can anyone identify which species this is?

Sign at the Houston Zoo just says "Spiny Lizard (Sceloporus sp.) Cburnett 06:29, 11 February 2007 (UTC)

Looks like Sceloporus jarrovii to me. Lyttle-Wight (talk) 22:38, 29 October 2017 (UTC)

Phylogeny moved pending replacement.
I've removed the phylogeny section to the talk page (below) because it is pertains to only a few species (most formerly S. undulatus) and is not representative of the genus as a whole and its relation to other Phrynosomatids. More complete taxonomic discussion can be found in something like Wiens and Reeder 1997 or, which give more comprehensive coverage.--Animalparty-- (talk) 19:46, 13 January 2014 (UTC)

Phylogeny
The following cladogram is based on Leaché and Reeder, 2002, and shows the relationship of a handful of species of the genus Sceloporus: