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The San Diego Horned Lizard or the Blainville's Horned Lizard (Phrynosoma blainvillii) is a flat bodied lizard with long spiky horns located on the top and side of its head and has smaller spikes throughout its body and tail.
Studying specimens from the San Diego Natural History Museum, he could not match a given lizard to a particular claimed subspecies — for example, Phrynosoma coronatum blainvillii or Phrynosoma coronatum frontale — based on characteristics the subspecies were said to have, such as size of frontal scales. Instead, the classification of the ...
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.
Pictured to the left is Blainville's Horned Lizard (Phrynosoma blainvillii), note the colored horns and double row of fringed scales alongside the body. The desert horned lizards' horns also do not come into contact with one another at the base. [3]
Phrynosoma blainvillii Gray, 1839; Phrynosoma braconnieri Duméril & Bocourt, 1870; Phrynosoma cerroense Stejneger, 1893; Phrynosoma cornutum (Harlan, 1824) Phrynosoma coronatum (Blainville, 1835) Phrynosoma ditmarsi Stejneger, 1906; Phrynosoma douglasii (Bell, 1828) Phrynosoma goodei Stejneger, 1893; Phrynosoma hernandesi Girard, 1858 ...
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 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.
Phrynosoma blainvillii; Phrynosoma cerroense; Phrynosoma coronatum; Phrynosoma wigginsi; Phyllobates spp. Picrorhiza kurrooa (Excludes Picrorhiza scrophulariiflora) Pitta guajana; Pitta nympha; Platalea leucorodia; Platymiscium pleiostachyum; Pleurobema clava; Podarcis lilfordi; Podarcis pityusensis; Podocnemis spp. Podophyllum hexandrum ...