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Desert horned lizards have horns that are wide at the base, which isn't true for their congener, the short-horned lizard. 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 Fort Worth Zoo just released a record-breaking number of Texas horned lizards into their native habitat, ... University. The zoo started its horned lizard conservation project in 2011 as a way ...
A University of Texas publication notes that horned lizard populations continue to disappear throughout their distribution despite protective legislation. Population declines are attributed to a number of factors, including the fragmentation and loss of habitat from real estate development and road construction, the planting of non-native ...
The first state reptile: Oklahoma's common collared lizard. Twenty-eight U.S. states have named an official state reptile. As with other state symbols, states compare admirable aspects of the reptile and of the state, within designating statutes. Schoolchildren often start campaigns promoting their favorite reptile to encourage state ...
Texas officially adopted the horny toad as the official state reptile in 1993. Texas horned lizards range from the south-central United States to northern Mexico, throughout much of Texas ...
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.
The Mexican Plateau horned lizard [4] (Phrynosoma orbiculare) is a species of horned lizard in the family Phrynosomatidae. [2] The species, also known commonly as the Chihuahua Desert horned lizard, [5] is endemic to Mexico. There are five recognized subspecies. The specific epithet, orbiculare, comes from the Latin adjective orbis, meaning ...
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 ...