Sceloporus halli, also known commonly as Hall's spiny lizard and la espinosa de Hall in Mexican Spanish, is a species of lizard in the family Phrynosomatidae. The species is endemic to Mexico.
Etymology The specific name, halli, is in honor of biologist William Purington Hall III (born 1939).Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. . (Sceloporus megalepidurus halli, p. 114).
Geographic range S. halli is found in the Mexican state of Oaxaca.
Habitat The preferred natural habitat of S. halli is shrubland.
Reproduction S. halli is ovoviviparous.
References
Further reading Dasmann MM, Smith HM (1974). "A new sceloporine lizard from Oaxaca, Mexico". Great Basin Naturalist 34 (3): 231–237. (Sceloporus megalepidurus halli, new subspecies). Mata-Silva V, Johnson JD, Wilson LD, García-Padilla E (2015). "The herpetofauna of Oaxaca, Mexico: composition, physiographic distribution, and conservation status". Mesoamerican Herpetology 2 (1): 6–62. (in English, with an abstract in Spanish). Wiens JJ, Reeder TW (1997). "Phylogeny of the spiny lizards (Sceloporus) based on molecular and morphological evidence". Herpetological Monographs 11: 1–101. (Sceloporus halli, new taxonomic status, elevated to species).