The Santa Cruz Island sator (Sceloporus angustus) is a species

Species

In biology, a species is one of the basic units of biological classification and a taxonomic rank. A species is often defined as a group of organisms capable of interbreeding and producing fertile offspring. While in many cases this definition is adequate, more precise or differing measures are...

 of phrynosomatid

Phrynosomatidae

Phrynosomatidae is a diverse family of lizards, found from Panama to the extreme south of Canada. Many members of the group are adapted to life in hot, sandy deserts, although the spiny lizards prefer rocky deserts or even relatively moist forest edges, and the short-horned lizard lives in prairie...

 lizard.

Geographic range

It is found on Santa Cruz Island, in the Gulf of California

Gulf of California

The Gulf of California is a body of water that separates the Baja California Peninsula from the Mexican mainland...

, Baja California

Baja California

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, Mexico

Mexico

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Habitat

Sceloporus angustus seems to be found throughout both islands of Santa Cruz

Santa Cruz Island

Santa Cruz Island was the largest privately owned island off the continental United States, but is currently part-owned by the National Park service . The island, located off the coast of California, is long and from wide...

, exploiting a great variety of temperate

Temperate

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 habitat

Habitat

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s, such as rocky areas, cave

Cave

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s along beaches, areas of beach

Beach

A beach is a geological landform along the shoreline of an ocean, sea, lake or river. It usually consists of loose particles which are often composed of rock, such as sand, gravel, shingle, pebbles or cobblestones...

 cobble stones , and sandy substrates, with animals also seen on the branches of small bushes and the limbs of cardones (cacti

Cacti

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