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Binomial name; Phrynosoma platyrhinos. Girard, 1852. The desert horned lizard (Phrynosoma platyrhinos) is a species of phrynosomatid lizard native to western North ...
Phrynosoma, whose members are known as the horned lizards, horny toads, or horntoads, is a genus of North American lizards and the type genus of the family Phrynosomatidae. Their common names refer directly to their horns or to their flattened, rounded bodies, and blunt snouts.
The thorny devil is only distantly related to the morphologically similar North American horned lizards of the genus Phrynosoma. This similarity is usually thought of as an example of convergent evolution. The names given to this lizard reflect its appearance: the two large horned scales on its head complete the illusion of a dragon or devil.
This is a checklist of American reptiles found in Northern America, based primarily on publications by the Society for the Study of Amphibians and Reptiles (SSAR). [1] [2] [3] It includes all species of Bermuda, Canada, Greenland, Saint Pierre and Miquelon, and the United States including recently introduced species such as chameleons, the Nile monitor, and the Burmese python.
The northern desert horned lizard (Phrynosoma platyrhinos platyrhinos) is a subspecies of the desert horned lizard, along with the southern desert horned lizard (P. p. calidiarum). It is often referred to as a "horny toad" due to its wide body and blunt snout, but it is not a toad.
Texas horned lizard (Phrynosoma cornutum) Greater short-horned lizard (Phrynosoma hernandesi) Flat-tail horned lizard (Phrynosoma mcallii) Desert horned lizard (Phrynosoma platyrhinos) Regal horned lizard (Phrynosoma solare) Twin-spotted spiny lizard (Sceloporus bimaculosus) Clark's spiny lizard (Sceloporus clarkii) Southwestern fence lizard ...
Like other horned lizards, it is often wrongly called the "horned toad", but it is not a toad at all. It is a reptile, not an amphibian. [34] In Idaho, the pygmy short-horned lizard can be found predominately in southern Idaho, with historic records in northwestern Idaho as well (Nussbaum et al. 1983). [35]
Coast horned lizard West of Sierra Nevada and deserts, north to the Bay Area, and inland as far north as Shasta Reservoir: Phrynosoma douglasii: Pygmy short-horned lizard Far northeast near Oregon Phrynosoma mcallii: Flat-tail horned lizard Most of Colorado Desert, excluding Algodones Dunes Phrynosoma platyrhinos: Desert horned lizard