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Coast horned lizard Phrynosoma douglasii: Pygmy short-horned lizard Phrynosoma mcallii: Flat-tail horned lizard Phrynosoma platyrhinos: Desert horned lizard Sceloporus graciosus: Common sagebrush lizard Sceloporus magister: Desert spiny lizard Sceloporus occidentalis: Western fence lizard Sceloporus orcutti: Granite spiny lizard Sceloporus ...
Aspidoscelis uniparens (Wright & Lowe, 1965) – desert grassland whiptail lizard; Aspidoscelis velox (Springer, 1928) – plateau striped whiptail; Aspidoscelis xanthonotus (Duellman & Lowe, 1953) – red-backed whiptail; Nota bene: A binomial authority in parentheses indicates that the species was originally described in a genus other than ...
Anniella stebbinsi, the Southern California or San Diegan legless lizard, [1] [2] is a small, slender lizard, and, as the name suggests, is legless. [3] Not much is known about the lizard as a unique species, with most observations conducted while it was not recognised as separate from Anniella pulchra, the Californian legless lizard.
Nearly 1,000 new species were discovered by scientists in 2023, including hundreds of wasps and a legless lizard. Nearly 1,000 new species were discovered by scientists in 2023, including hundreds ...
Western Mexico whiptail are striped lizards, which tend to be active foragers, constantly moving around than lizards with cryptic patterns. [13] It records very high moves per minute or percent time moving values. All whiptail lizards in the genera Aspidoscelis are active at body temperatures between 37 and 40 °C (99 and 104 °F).
The San Diego horned lizard is no longer present in many sections of Southern California due to urbanization, and other types of habitat loss. [10] The population of horned lizards are declining because of habitat loss or degradation, hunting or capturing by humans and an increase of invasive species of Argentine ants. [13]
Gambelia sila, also known as the blunt-nosed leopard lizard, is listed as a federal endangered species and is listed by the State of California as an endangered species and fully protected species. This species is thought to have declined as a result of habitat destruction and habitat fragmentation caused by development and habitat modification.
banded rock lizard: southern California, United States, and Baja California, Mexico Petrosaurus repens (Van Denburgh, 1895) Baja California and Baja California Sur, Mexico Petrosaurus slevini (Van Denburgh, 1922) banded rock lizard: Baja California, Mexico Petrosaurus thalassinus (Cope, 1863) Baja blue rock lizard [5] Baja California Sur, Mexico