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The regal horned lizard is a small, flat lizard about the size of the palm of a human's hand. It has spikes all around the lateral surface of its body. It is 3–4 in (117 mm) in length from nose to tail as a full adult, and pale grey to yellow-brown or reddish in color, topped with dark blotches alongside the body and back.
Southern desert horned lizard, P. p. calidiarum (Cope, 1896) Northern desert horned lizard, P. p. platyrhinos Girard, 1852; southern Idaho in the north to northern Mexico Guerreran horned lizard: Phrynosoma sherbrookei Nieto-Montes de Oca, Arenas-Moreno, Beltrán-Sánchez & Leaché, 2014: Mexico. Regal horned lizard: Phrynosoma solare Gray, 1845
The flat-tailed horned lizard occurs in areas of fine sand, while the short-horned lizard (P. douglasii) is found in shortgrass prairie all the way up into spruce-fir forest. The most common species in the Arizona Upland subdivision is the regal horned lizard ( P. solare ), which frequents rocky or gravelly habitats of arid to semiarid plains ...
The zoo started its horned lizard conservation project in 2011 as a way to fight against the extinction of the animal. The zoo’s techniques with breeding and husbandry have caught on with other ...
Horned lizards mostly hunt out in the open, licking up ants and other insects with their sticky tongues. However, this also makes the lizards easy targets for predators like roadrunners, coyotes ...
With more than 91,000 acres, this national park is home to jackrabbits, javelinas, kangaroo rats, and plenty of desert reptiles like tortoises, iguanas, regal horned lizards, Gila monsters, and ...
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.
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 ...