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| Conservation status | |
 Least Concern (IUCN 3.1) | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Order: | Squamata |
| Suborder: | Iguania |
| Family: | Tropiduridae |
| Genus: | Stenocercus |
| Species: | S. aculeatus |
| Binomial name | |
| Stenocercus aculeatus (O'Shaughnessy, 1879) | |
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Stenocercus aculeatus is a species of lizard in the family Tropiduridae. The species is native to northwestern South America.
Geographic range
S. aculeatus is found in Bolivia, Ecuador, and Peru.
Habitat
The preferred natural habitat of S. aculeatus is forest, at altitudes of 723–1,311 m (2,372–4,301 ft).
Reproduction
S. aculeatus is oviparous.
References
- ^ Yánez-Muñoz, M.; Cisneros-Heredia, D.F.; Brito, J. (2017). "Stenocercus aculeatus ". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2017: e.T178414A48674303. Retrieved 16 December 2021.
- ^ Species Stenocercus aculeatus at The Reptile Database www.reptile-database.org.
Further reading
- Etheridge R (1966). "The Systematic Relationships of West Indian and South American Lizards Referred to the Iguanid Genus Leiocephalus ". Copeia 1966 (1): 79–91. (Ophryoessoides aculeatus, new combination).
- O'Shaughnessy AWE (1879). "Descriptions of new Species of Lizards in the Collection of the British Museum". Annals and Magazine of Natural History, Fifth Series 4: 295–303. (Leiocephalus aculeatus, new species, p. 303).
- Torres-Carvajal O (2000). "Ecuadorian Lizards of the Genus Stenocercus (Squamata: Tropiduridae)". Scientific Papers, Natural History Museum, University of Kansas (15): 1–38. (Stenocercus aculeatus, new combination, pp. 5–9). (in English, with an abstract in Spanish).
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