Specific status of the North American fence lizards, Sceloporus undulatus and Sceloporus occidentalis, with comments on chromosome variation

Title Variants

Alternative: Fence lizards

Related Titles

Series: American Museum novitates, no. 2768

By

Cole, Charles J.

Type

Book

Material

Published material

Publication info

New York, N.Y, American Museum of Natural History, c1983

Notes

Title from caption.

"September 15, 1983."

"The eastern fence lizard (S. undulatus) and western fence lizard (S. occidentalis) are shown to be sympatric in a woodland community in the Pine Valley Mountains, Washington County, Utah. Observations on external morphology and chromosomes, involving 49 specimens from the area of sympatry, produced no evidence of interbreeding. These forms are properly regarded as different species. The 16 S. occidentalis karyotyped from the Pine Valley Mountains included a triploid female that was sterile but otherwise appeared normal. Specimens of S. occidentalis have been karyotyped from many localities throughout its range (Utah to California, Washington to Baja California Norte), and, normally, all individuals are alike in chromosome morphology. However, four specimens out of 12 from northwestern California (Del Norte, Trinity, and Shasta counties) had a heteromorphic pair of chromosomes that were not sex-correlated. Following a generally overlooked paper by Harper, the authorship of the name Stellio undulatus (= Sceloporus undulatus) should be credited to Bosc and Daudin (in Sonnini and Latreille, 1801)"--P. [1].

Subjects

Chromosomes , Classification , cytotaxonomy , Genetics , Lizards , North America , Reptiles , Sceloporus , Sceloporus occidentalis , Sceloporus undulatus , Utah , Washington County

Call Number

QL1 .A436 no.2768, 1983

Language

English

Identifiers

OCLC: 10631007