Isla San Luis is an

island An island or isle is a piece of land, distinct from a continent, completely surrounded by water. There are continental islands, which were formed by being split from a continent by plate tectonics, and oceanic islands, which have never been ...

in the

Gulf of California The Gulf of California (), also known as the Sea of Cortés (''Mar de Cortés'') or Sea of Cortez, or less commonly as the Vermilion Sea (''Mar Vermejo''), is a marginal sea of the Pacific Ocean that separates the Baja California peninsula from ...

east of the Baja California Peninsula. The island is uninhabited and is part of the San Felipe Municipality.

Biology

Isla San Luis has three species of

reptile Reptiles, as commonly defined, are a group of tetrapods with an ectothermic metabolism and Amniotic egg, amniotic development. Living traditional reptiles comprise four Order (biology), orders: Testudines, Crocodilia, Squamata, and Rhynchocepha ...

s: ''

Callisaurus draconoides The zebra-tailed lizard (''Callisaurus draconoides'') is a species of lizard in the Family (biology), family Phrynosomatidae. The species is native to the Southwestern United States and adjacent northwestern Mexico. There are nine recognized sub ...

'' (zebra-tailed lizard), '' Dipsosaurus dorsalis'' (desert iguana), and '' Uta stansburiana'' (common side-blotched lizard).

References

* Islands of Baja California Islands of the Gulf of California Uninhabited islands of Mexico {{BajaCalifornia-geo-stub