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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. [11]
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 ...
San Diego horned lizard or Blainville's horned lizard: Phrynosoma blainvillii Gray, 1839: United States (southern and central California), Mexico (northern Baja California). Short-tailed horned lizard: Phrynosoma braconnieri A.H.A. Duméril, 1870: Mexico (Puebla and Oaxaca) Great Plains short-horned lizard
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: Western fence lizard Sceloporus orcutti: Granite spiny lizard Sceloporus uniformis: Yellow-backed spiny lizard Uma inornata
A large mature male iguana basks in the sun impressing a female with his dewlap at the Miami Beach Golf Club. Dave Barry warns South Florida that the lizards have become more brazen. And that’s ...
San Diego National Wildlife Refuge Complex. This is an inland refuge in San Diego's back country. Habitats include coastal sage scrub and chaparral to oak woodland and freshwater marsh. It is part of the Multiple Species Conservation Program and includes 44,000 acres.
SAN DIEGO — The tiny coastal city of Del Mar on Sunday shut down nearly its entire stretch of beaches after a shark attacked a man participating in a group swim, officials said.
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.