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This list of reptiles of Texas includes the snakes, lizards, crocodilians, and turtles native to the U.S. state of Texas.. Texas has a large range of habitats, from swamps, coastal marshes and pine forests in the east, rocky hills and limestone karst in the center, desert in the south and west, mountains in the far west, and grassland prairie in the north.
The Texas alligator lizard is a medium-sized lizard, attaining a maximum total length (including tail) of around 24 to 25 in (61 to 64 cm). It is the largest lizard species in Texas, and one of the largest alligator lizards in the world. This lizard has a flat, wedge-shaped head.
The Texas spiny lizard (Sceloporus olivaceus) is a species of phrynosomatid lizard native to the south central United States, in the states of Texas, Arizona and Oklahoma, and northeastern Mexico in the states of Coahuila, Nuevo León, Tamaulipas, and San Luis Potosí. They are quite common throughout their range, where they can be found in ...
The Texas greater earless lizard (C. t. texanus) occurs on the Edwards Plateau of Central Texas and northward to the state border with Oklahoma and southeastern areas of the Texas panhandle. [21] It ranges southward into the Tamaulipan mezquital ecoregion , and along the Rio Grande into northeast Coahuila and north-central Nuevo León, Mexico.
Pages in category "Lists of fauna of Texas" The following 9 pages are in this category, out of 9 total. ... List of reptiles of Texas; S. List of spiders of Texas
The Southeastern U.S. doesn’t just have coronavirus on its hands, the region is now contending with an invasion of massive Argentine black-and-white tegu lizards, which can grow as large as 4 ...
Similar to other lizards native to North Carolina, the tails of glass lizards are easily broken off — just as glass easily shatters. If a predator latches onto the tail, it will snap off and ...
Texas honored the Texas horned lizard in 1993, but private Texas Christian University has had the associated mascot the Horned Frog since 1896. According to legend, the football team identified with the lizards found on the practice field as the athletes and reptiles were similarly scrappy.