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Subterranean biodiversity of North America and around the globe
AnimaliaChordataReptiliaSquamataPhrynosomatidaeSceloporus

Eastern Fence Lizard
Sceloporus undulatus (Bosc & Daudin, 1801)

Taxonomy

Kingdom Animalia
Phylum Chordata
Class Reptilia
Order Squamata
Family Phrynosomatidae
Genus Sceloporus
Species Sceloporus undulatus (Bosc & Daudin, 1801)

Description

Diagnostic characters

Ecological class
Accidental

Distribution

Range

Known from two counties across two states.

Continent

North America

Country

United States

States and provinces

Arkansas, Kentucky

Counties

Arkansas
Baxter
Kentucky
Edmonson

Conservation and management

IUCN Red List

LC Least Concern

EXEWCRENVUNTLC▲

Assessed in 2007.

NatureServe

G5 Secure

G1G2G3G4G5▲

National ranks

United States
N5 Secure

Subnational ranks

Maryland
S4 Apparently Secure
DE
S5 Secure
Tennessee
S5 Secure
Kentucky
S5 Secure
Florida
S4 Apparently Secure
District of Columbia
SH Possibly Extirpated
Illinois
S5 Secure
Indiana
S4 Apparently Secure
North Carolina
S5 Secure
New York
S1 Critically Imperiled
Pennsylvania
S3 Vulnerable
Alabama
S5 Secure
South Carolina
S5 Secure
Ohio
SNR Unranked
NJ
S5 Secure
West Virginia
S5 Secure
Virginia
S5 Secure
Mississippi
S5 Secure
Georgia
S5 Secure

State and federal status

Not listed under the U.S. Endangered Species Act

References

  • McDaniel, V.R. & Gardner, J.E. 1977. Cave fauna of Arkansas: vertebrate taxa. Journal of the Arkansas Academy of Science 31: 68–71. https://scholarworks.uark.edu/jaas/vol31/iss1/22.

How to cite this account

Sceloporus undulatus (Bosc & Daudin, 1801). Cave Biology Data Portal, account SP-2910. https://cavebiology.org/species/sceloporus-undulatus/ (accessed 7 September 2026).

Data sources and funding are listed in the Acknowledgments.

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