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The Texas horned lizard is the largest-bodied and most widely distributed of the roughly 21 species of horned lizards in the western United States and Mexico. The Texas horned lizard exhibits sexual dimorphism, with the females being larger with a snout-vent length of around 5 in (13 cm), whereas the males reach around 3.7 in (9.4 cm).
Linnaeus, 1758. 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 generic name Phrynosoma means "toad-bodied".
Description. The regal horned lizard is a small, flat lizard about the size of the palm of a human's hand. It has spikes all around the lateral surface of its body. It is 3–4 in (117 mm) in length from nose to tail as a full adult, and pale grey to yellow-brown or reddish in color, topped with dark blotches alongside the body and back.
Desert horned lizard Ring-necked snake Long-nosed leopard lizard Desert tortoise Many-lined skink Speckled rattlesnake. Blackneck garter snake (Thamnophis cyrtopsis) [236] Coachwhip (Masticophis flagellum) [237] Common chuckwalla (Sauromalus ater) [238] Common kingsnake (Lampropeltis getula) [239] Common side-blotched lizard (Uta stansburiana ...
Sonoran horned lizard. The Sonoran horned lizard ( Phrynosoma goodei), also known commonly as Goode's desert horned lizard and el camaleón de Sonora in Mexican Spanish, is a species of horned lizard in the family Phrynosomatidae. The species is native to Arizona in the United States and to Sonora in Mexico. [2]
In Southern California, the San Diego horned lizard's reproductive period ranges from early March to June. [ 10] Each year the female Blainville's horned lizard can lay about 6-21 eggs in a year. A few months after they are laid in August-September they begin to hatch. The females will lay their eggs in the Santa Monica and Simi Hills area.
Cerastes cerastes, commonly known as the Saharan horned viper [4] or the desert horned viper, [5] is a venomous species of viper native to the deserts of Northern Africa and parts of the Arabian Peninsula and Levant. It is often easily recognized by the presence of a pair of supraocular "horns", although hornless individuals do occur. [4]
Phrynosomatidae. Genus: Phrynosoma. Species: P. ornatissimum. Binomial name. Phrynosoma ornatissimum. Girard, 1858 [1] The desert short-horned lizard (Phrynosoma ornatissimum) is a horned lizard species native to Canada and the United States.