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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]
Texas designated the Texas horned lizard (Phrynosoma cornutum) as the official state reptile in 1993. [12] Wyoming’s state reptile is the “Horn Toad”, the greater short-horned lizard (Phrynosoma hernandesi). [13] [14] The "TCU Horned Frog" is the mascot of Texas Christian University in Fort Worth, Texas. The "Horned Toad" is also the ...
Bayard H. Brattstrom of California State University, Fullerton's Department of Biology claims that there are no subspecies of the coast horned lizard. 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 ...
Also referred to as the horned toad, horny toad and horned frog, the Texas horned lizard has lineage that traces back to dinosaurs. The tiny three-inch-long species joined the threatened list in ...
San Diego horned lizard; San Luis Valley short-horned lizard; Short-tailed horned lizard; Sonoran horned lizard; T. Texas horned lizard This page was last edited ...
Zebra-tailed lizard Petrosaurus mearnsi: Banded rock lizard Phrynosoma blainvilli: 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
A 46-year-old ocean swimmer was attacked by a shark north of San Diego on Sunday morning. Water access will remain blocked until later in the week.
The attack in seasonably cool and cloudy "June gloom" weather came as coastal San Diego County prepares for an annual onslaught of tourists, many part of a traditional exodus from Arizona and its ...