Sagebrush lizard
Sceloporus graciosus Baird & Girard, 1852
Status not recordedlizards
The sagebrush lizard (Sceloporus graciosus) is a species in the family Phrynosomatidae, order Squamata. Recorded adults weigh 6.8 g to 7 g and reach 5.68 cm in length.
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Quick facts about the sagebrush lizard
- Weight
- 6.8 g – 7 gsrc for Weight
- Length
- 5.5 cm – 5.68 cmsrc for Length
- Lifespan
- Not recorded
- Diet
- Carnivoresrc for Diet
- Longest recorded lifespan
- 8 years
- Main food
- Not recorded
- Habitat
- desert, shrublandsrc for Habitat
- Egg incubation
- 42 dayssrc for Egg incubation
- Young per litter or clutch
- 2.4 – 10src for Young per litter or clutch
- Age at maturity
- 12 months – 2.08 yearssrc for Age at maturity
- Litters or clutches a year
- 1 – 2src for Litters or clutches a year
- Reproduction
- Eggssrc for Reproduction
- Active
- By day (diurnal)src for Active
- Conservation status
- Not recorded
- Countries on record
- Not recorded
How big is the sagebrush lizard?
What eats the sagebrush lizard?
Species recorded in published studies and collections.
Recorded predators of the sagebrush lizard
2 on record
- Racer Coluber constrictor3 sources
- Glossy snake Arizona elegans2 sources
Each pair is recorded by at least two independent datasets. A record shows the animal was seen or found to have eaten the other, including scavenged carcasses and young animals; it does not say how often. Compiled by Global Biotic Interactions (CC0 1.0).
References for these records
- https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/245781729
- https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/245783144
- COLUBER CONSTRICTOR MORMON ( Western Yellow-bellied Racer) and PITUOPHIS CATENIFER DESERTICOLA (Great Basin Gopher Snake). DIET. 2011. Herpetological Review 42(2): 285-286
- https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/95015702
- Eichenwald, A. J., Fefferman, N. H., & Reed, J. M. (2024). Potential extinction cascades in a desert ecosystem: Linking food web interactions to community viability. Ecology and Evolution, 14, e10930. https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.10930. Accessed at <https://github.com/aeiche01/MojaveFoodWeb/archive/
Where does the sagebrush lizard live?
Not recorded
Is the sagebrush lizard endangered?
No conservation assessment is recorded for this species in our sources. That is not the same as being safe: it has not been matched to an assessment.
How is the sagebrush lizard classified?
- kingdomAnimalia
- phylumChordata
- classReptilia
- orderSquamata
- familyPhrynosomatidae
- genusSceloporus
- SpeciesSceloporus graciosus Baird & Girard, 1852
Other names and names in other languages (14)
- Common sagebrush lizardEnglish
- Mountain swift [gracilis]English
- Northern sagebrush lizard [graciosus]English
- Southern sagebrush lizard [vandenburghianus]English
- Western sagebrush lizardEnglish
- Almindelig BynkeleguanDanish
- Beifuß-StachelleguanGerman
- Lagartija espinosa de pastizalSpanish
- lagartija espinosa de Baja California NorteSpanish
- Lagartija espinosa de las artemisasSpanish
- Lagartija-escamosa de ArtemisaSpanish
- Lézard du SagebrushFrench
- kolcogwan nadobnyPolish
- Lagarto-das-pastagens-meridionalPortuguese
Relatives of the sagebrush lizard
Other species in the same genus Sceloporus.
Blue belly
Sceloporus occidentalis
Fence lizard
Sceloporus undulatus
Emerald swift
Sceloporus malachiticus
Mesquite lizard
Sceloporus grammicus
Desert spiny lizard
Sceloporus magister
Blue spiny lizard
Sceloporus cyanogenys
CompareSagebrush lizard vs Blue bellySagebrush lizard vs Fence lizardSagebrush lizard vs Emerald swiftSagebrush lizard vs Mesquite lizard
Common questions
Answered only where our data holds the answer.
How big is the sagebrush lizard?
An adult sagebrush lizard weighs 6.8 g – 7 g and measures 5.5 cm – 5.68 cm long, according to values recorded on Wikidata.
What kind of animal is the sagebrush lizard?
The sagebrush lizard (Sceloporus graciosus) belongs to the family Phrynosomatidae in the order Squamata.
What eats the sagebrush lizard?
Animals recorded preying on the sagebrush lizard include racer and glossy snake. The records are compiled by Global Biotic Interactions from published studies; each pair is reported by at least two datasets.
Sources and how to cite this page
Data as of 2026-11-14. How this page is put together.
- An amniote life-history database to perform comparative analyses with birds, mammals, and reptiles · CC0 1.0 · E096-269
Myhrvold, N.P., Baldridge, E., Chan, B., Sivam, D., Freeman, D.L. & Ernest, S.K.M. (2015) An amniote life-history database to perform comparative analyses with birds, mammals, and reptiles. Ecology 96: 3109. https://doi.org/10.1890/15-0846R.1. Data: https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.3563457.v1 - Catalogue of Life eXtended Release · CC BY 4.0 · 2026-10-16 XR
Catalogue of Life (2026). Catalogue of Life eXtended Release, version 2026-10-16 XR. Catalogue of Life Foundation, Amsterdam, Netherlands. https://doi.org/10.48580/dgzlf - Global Biotic Interactions (GloBI): interpreted data products · CC0 1.0 · 0.11
Poelen, J.H., Simons, J.D. & Mungall, C.J. (2014) Global Biotic Interactions: an open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics 24: 148–159. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecoinf.2014.08.005. Data: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.22691479, with each record's original reference. - ReptTraits: a comprehensive dataset of ecological traits in reptiles · CC BY 4.0 · v1-2
Oskyrko, O., Mi, C., Meiri, S. et al. (2024) ReptTraits: a comprehensive dataset of ecological traits in reptiles. Scientific Data 11: 243. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-024-03079-5. Data: https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.24572683.v4 - SquamBase 1.0 - a dataset of squamate species traits · CC0 1.0 · 1.0-dryad-v5
Meiri, S. (2024) SquamBase - a database of squamate (Reptilia: Squamata) traits. Global Ecology and Biogeography 33(4): e13812. https://doi.org/10.1111/geb.13812. Data: https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.76hdr7t3b
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