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The thorny devil was first described by the biologist John Edward Gray in 1841. While it is the only species contained in the genus Moloch, many taxonomists suspect another species might remain to be found in the wild. [2] The thorny devil is only distantly related to the morphologically similar North American horned lizards of the genus ...
Mexican Plateau horned lizard (Phrynosoma orbiculare) near Xalapa de Enríquez, Veracruz, Mexico, showing blood squirted from the eye as defensive behavior (20 April 2011) Horned lizards use a variety of means to avoid predation. Their coloration generally serves as camouflage. When threatened, their first defense is to remain motionless to ...
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]
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 horned frog is a Texas lizard. It’s not a frog. Don’t ask. (The “Horned Frog” hand sign used since 1980 shows the horned lizard’s “horns.” That is not a claw. Or a bunny rabbit.)
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.
For Wyoming's horned lizard state reptile, the rating reflects that of the pictured short-horned lizard, which occurs over much of the central United States and almost all of Wyoming. [58] [135] Within that genus, there are ten species at Least Concern and one at Near Threatened and one at Data Deficient. [136]
Nearly 1,000 new species were discovered by scientists in 2023, including hundreds of wasps and a legless lizard. Nearly 1,000 new species were discovered by scientists in 2023, including hundreds ...