# Dead side-blotched lizard

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Species of lizard

Dead side-blotched lizard Conservation status Vulnerable (IUCN 3.1)[1] Scientific classification Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Reptilia Order: Squamata Suborder: Iguania Family: Phrynosomatidae Genus: Uta Species: U. lowei Binomial name Uta lowei L. Grismer, 1994

The **dead side-blotched lizard** (***Uta lowei**)*, also known [commonly](/source/Common_name) as the **El Muerto side-blotched lizard** and ***la mancha lateral muerta*** in Mexican Spanish, is a [species](/source/Species) of [lizard](/source/Lizard) in the [subfamily](/source/Subfamily) [Sceloporinae](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Sceloporinae&action=edit&redlink=1) of the [family](/source/Family_(taxonomy)) [Phrynosomatidae](/source/Phrynosomatidae). The species is [endemic](/source/Endemism) to [Isla El Muerto](/source/Isla_El_Muerto), an island in the [Gulf of California](/source/Gulf_of_California), Mexico.[1][2]

## Etymology

The [specific name](/source/Specific_name_(zoology)), *lowei*, is in honor of American herpetologist [Charles Herbert Lowe](/source/Charles_Herbert_Lowe).[3]

## Description

*Uta lowei* has strongly keeled [dorsal scales](/source/Dorsal_scales), and is light gray to off-white [ventrally](/source/Anatomical_terms_of_location). Adult males have a [dorsal](/source/Dorsum_(anatomy)) pattern of offset paravertebral dark blotches, with a dense network of turquoise spots.[2]

## Habitat

The preferred natural [habitat](/source/Habitat) of *Uta lowei* is rocky areas of the marine [intertidal zone](/source/Intertidal_zone), but it has also been found in rocky areas of inland [desert](/source/Desert).[1]

## Diet

*Uta lowei* [preys](/source/Predation) predominately upon [isopods](/source/Isopoda).[2]

## Reproduction

*Uta lowei* is [oviparous](/source/Oviparity).[2]

## References

1. ^ [***a***](#cite_ref-iucn_1-0) [***b***](#cite_ref-iucn_1-1) [***c***](#cite_ref-iucn_1-2) [Frost, D.R.](/source/Darrel_Frost) (2007). ["*Uta lowei*"](https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/64176/12743615). *[IUCN Red List of Threatened Species](/source/IUCN_Red_List)*. **2007** e.T64176A12743615. [doi](/source/Doi_(identifier)):[10.2305/IUCN.UK.2007.RLTS.T64176A12743615.en](https://doi.org/10.2305%2FIUCN.UK.2007.RLTS.T64176A12743615.en). Retrieved 17 May 2014.

1. ^ [***a***](#cite_ref-RDB_2-0) [***b***](#cite_ref-RDB_2-1) [***c***](#cite_ref-RDB_2-2) [***d***](#cite_ref-RDB_2-3) [*Uta lowei*](http://reptile-database.reptarium.cz/species.php?genus=Uta&species=lowei) at the [Reptarium.cz Reptile Database](http://reptile-database.reptarium.cz/). Accessed 28 January 2015.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-3)** [Beolens, Bo](/source/Bo_Beolens); [Watkins, Michael](/source/Michael_Watkins_(zoologist)); [Grayson, Michael](/source/Michael_Grayson) (2011). *The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles*. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [978-1-4214-0135-5](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-1-4214-0135-5). (*Uta lowei*, p. 161).

## Further reading

- [Grismer, L.L.](/source/Larry_Lee_Grismer) (1994). "Three New Species of Intertidal Side-Blotched Lizards (Genus *Uta*) from the Gulf of California, México". *Herpetologica*. **50** (4): 451–474. (*Uta lowei*, new species, p. 464).

- Grismer, L.L. (1999). "An Evolutionary Classification of Reptiles on Islands in the Gulf of California, México". *Herpetologica*. **55** (4): 446–469.

- Grismer, L.L. (2002). *Amphibians and Reptiles of Baja California, Including Its Pacific Islands and the Islands in the Sea of Cortés*. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press. [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [978-0-520-92520-5](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-520-92520-5). 413 pp.

- [Heimes, P.](https://species.wikimedia.org/wiki/Peter_Heimes) (2022). *Lizards of Mexico, Herpetofauna Mexicana Vol. 2, Part I. Iguanian Lizards*. Frankfurt am Main, Germany: Edition Chimaira. [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [978-3-89973-101-9](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-3-89973-101-9). 448 pp.

Taxon identifiers Uta lowei Wikidata: Q5314204 Wikispecies: Uta lowei CoL: 7F45T GBIF: 2451045 iNaturalist: 36103 IRMNG: 10363290 ITIS: 1056586 IUCN: 64176 Observation.org: 104349 Open Tree of Life: 4125455 RD: lowei

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