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The Crevice Spiny Lizard (Sceloporus poinsettii) is a large, heavily armored rock-dwelling reptile native to the sun-baked limestone canyons and desert mountain ranges of the Chihuahuan Desert. Named in honor of Joel Roberts Poinsett (the American statesman and...
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The Island Night Lizard (Xantusia riversiana) is a magnificent, ancient reptilian relict found nowhere on Earth except three windswept islands in the California Channel Islands archipelago. The largest member of the night lizard family, this heavy-bodied island...
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Clark’s Spiny Lizard (Sceloporus clarkii) is a large, rugged, heavily armored arboreal lizard native to the oak-dotted canyons, riparian gallery forests, and desert ranges of the American Southwest and Mexico. Named in honor of American naturalist John H. Clark,...
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The Granite Night Lizard (Xantusia henshawi) is a master of extreme architectural crypsis, exquisitely adapted to a life spent entirely inside narrow cracks of exfoliating granite boulders in the mountains of Southern California. With its remarkably flattened,...
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The Yuman Desert Fringe-toed Lizard (Uma rufopunctata) is a specialized sand-dwelling reptile endemic to the wind-swept dune systems of the Gran Desierto de Altar and coastal Sonora along the Sea of Cortez. Named for the reddish-orange or rust-colored spots dotting...
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The Blue Spiny Lizard (Sceloporus cyanogenys) is one of the most stunning, brilliantly colored reptiles in North America. Inhabiting the sun-scorched limestone canyons and thorn scrub of southern Texas and northeastern Mexico, adult males of this large, armored lizard...
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The Twin-spotted Spiny Lizard (Sceloporus bimaculosus) is a large, heavily armored reptile native to the sun-baked canyon cliffs and rocky slopes of the Chihuahuan Desert. Easily distinguished by its sharp, overlapping keeled scales and two prominent dark blotches or...
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The Mojave Fringe-toed Lizard (Uma scoparia) is a charismatic sand-dune specialist endemic to the isolated blowsand dune fields of the Mojave Desert. Renowned for the remarkable comb-like fringe of scales along its hind toes that allow it to sprint across scorching,...
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The Spot-tailed Earless Lizard (Holbrookia lacerata) is a rare, ground-dwelling reptile endemic to the rocky limestone plateaus and shortgrass savannas of Texas and northern Mexico. Easily distinguished from all other earless lizards by the distinct rows of round...
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The Coachella Valley Fringe-toed Lizard (Uma inornata) is an endangered, hyper-specialized reptile found nowhere else on Earth outside the windblown sand dune systems of the Coachella Valley in southern California. With specialized comblike scales on its toes that act...
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