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1 June 2005 REPRODUCTIVE CHARACTERISTICS OF TWO SYNTOPIC, WIDELY FORAGING LIZARDS, ASPIDOSCELIS DEPPII AND ASPIDOSCELIS GUTTATA FROM OAXACA, MÉXICO
Vicente Mata-Silva, Aurelio Ramírez-Bautista
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Abstract

We studied the reproductive characteristics, such as snout-vent length (SVL) at sexual maturity, clutch size, and egg volume, and morphological characteristics [head length (HL), head width (HW), femur length (FL), and tibia length (TL)] in Aspidoscelis deppii and A. guttata from Oaxaca, Mexico. In A. deppii, males were larger in SVL than females, whereas in A. guttata, females were larger than males. Males of A. deppii had larger morphological structures, such as HL, HW, FL, and TL, than females; in contrast, males and females of A. guttata were similar, except in TL, in which females were larger. Mean clutch size was 2.3 for A. deppii and 4.5 for A. guttata. Females of A. deppii had smaller egg volume than females of A. guttata. Both A. deppii and A. guttata respond to the environmental factors from this region, but in different ways.

Vicente Mata-Silva and Aurelio Ramírez-Bautista "REPRODUCTIVE CHARACTERISTICS OF TWO SYNTOPIC, WIDELY FORAGING LIZARDS, ASPIDOSCELIS DEPPII AND ASPIDOSCELIS GUTTATA FROM OAXACA, MÉXICO," The Southwestern Naturalist 50(2), 262-267, (1 June 2005). https://doi.org/10.1894/0038-4909(2005)050[0262:RCOTSW]2.0.CO;2
Accepted: 16 September 2004; Published: 1 June 2005
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