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This could also be a juvenile or subadult. They lack blue markings of any kind, and wouldn't have the dark barring of the adult females.
Here's a demonstration of the difference between the belly scales of male and female Sceloporus lizards (though these are a TX species): http://www.sbs.utexas.edu/halldw/bio455l...
http://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/688...
This is the male i spottted. This is how it had blue on it's pattern. Maybe i should also try and look at their bellies.
The females lack the blue bellies, it's one of the easier ways to tell the males and females apart.
http://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/686...
This is how a female I found looked.
If these are blue bellied ,i never saw any blue on their bellies.
Spotted on Mar 13, 2012
Submitted on Mar 13, 2012
