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Holbrookia maculata, commonly known as the lesser earless lizard, is a species of lizard in the family Phrynosomatidae. The species is native to the southwestern and central United States and northern Mexico.
Earless lizard. Earless lizards are two genera of small lizards native to the semiarid and grassland habitats of the Southwestern United States and Mexico. The genus Cophosaurus and the genus Holbrookia are both characterized by having no external ear openings, presumably to prevent sand from entering their bodies as they dig.
Date: 14 January 2017: Source: National Park Service, White Sands National Park - modifications: cropped, white balanced, cloned away spots, flipped horizontally: Author ...
Feb. 5—A lizard species once feared to be vanishingly scarce is now known to have several thriving populations across its historical range in the Edwards Plateau region of Central and West Texas ...
Holbrookia Scientific classification Domain: Eukaryota Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Reptilia Order: Squamata Suborder: Iguania Family: Phrynosomatidae Genus: Holbrookia Girard, 1851 Keeled earless lizard (Holbrookia propinqua) female, municipality of Soto La Marina, Tamaulipas, Mexico (20 May 2002). Holbrookia is a genus of earless lizards, known commonly as the lesser earless ...
The bleached earless lizard (Holbrookia maculata ruthveni) is capable of hearing though it has no external ear openings. More than 800 animal species inhabit the park, many of them nocturnal . Several species of animals have developed very specialized means of survival in this harsh environment, enabling them to thrive in a place with very ...
The greater earless lizard (Cophosaurus texanus) is the only species in the monotypic genus Cophosaurus. It is closely related to the smaller, lesser earless lizards and other species in the genus Holbrookia , and in fact was placed in that genus and referred to Holbrookia texana from 1852 into the 1970s.
The Phrynosomatidae are a diverse family of lizards, sometimes classified as a subfamily (Phrynosomatinae), 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 or sagebrush environments.