Stenocercus aculeatus is a species of lizard in the family Tropiduridae. The species is native to northwestern South America. www.reptile-database.org.
Geographic range S. aculeatus is found in Bolivia, Ecuador, and Peru.
Habitat The preferred natural habitat of S. aculeatus is forest, at altitudes of .
Reproduction S. aculeatus is oviparous.
References
Further reading Etheridge R (1966). "The Systematic Relationships of West Indian and South American Lizards Referred to the Iguanid Genus Leiocephalus ". Copeia 1966 (1): 79–91. (Ophryoessoides aculeatus, new combination). O'Shaughnessy AWE (1879). "Descriptions of new Species of Lizards in the Collection of the British Museum". Annals and Magazine of Natural History, Fifth Series 4: 295–303. (Leiocephalus aculeatus, new species, p. 303). Torres-Carvajal O (2000). "Ecuadorian Lizards of the Genus Stenocercus (Squamata: Tropiduridae)". Scientific Papers, Natural History Museum, University of Kansas (15): 1–38. (Stenocercus aculeatus, new combination, pp. 5–9). (in English, with an abstract in Spanish).