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Callisaurus draconoides (Zebra-tailed Lizard)

Synonyms:

Wikipedia Abstract

Zebra-tailed lizards (Callisaurus) are a genus of phrynosomatid lizards endemic to the southwestern United States and northwestern Mexico.
View Wikipedia Record: Callisaurus draconoides

Infraspecies

Callisaurus draconoides bogerti
Callisaurus draconoides brevipes
Callisaurus draconoides carmenensis
Callisaurus draconoides crinitus
Callisaurus draconoides draconoides (Zebratail lizard)
Callisaurus draconoides inusitatus
Callisaurus draconoides myurus (Nevada zebratail lizard)
Callisaurus draconoides rhodostictus (Mojave zebratail lizard)
Callisaurus draconoides ventralis (Arizona zebratail lizard)

Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  10.3 grams
Birth Weight [2]  1 grams
Female Weight [2]  14 grams
Habitat Substrate [3]  Terrestrial
Litter Size [2]  4
Litters / Year [2]  3
Reproductive Mode [3]  Oviparous
Snout to Vent Length [2]  2.756 inches (7 cm)
Speed [4]  4.921 MPH (2.2 m/s)

Ecoregions

Protected Areas

Biodiversity Hotspots

Name Location Endemic Species Website
California Floristic Province Mexico, United States No
Madrean Pine-Oak Woodlands Mexico, United States No
Mesoamerica Belize, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama No

Predators

Arizona elegans (arenicola)[5]
Buteo albonotatus (Zone-tailed Hawk)[6]
Buteo jamaicensis (Red-tailed Hawk)[6]
Glaucidium brasilianum cactorum (cactus ferruginous pygmy-owl)[7]

Consumers

Parasitized by 
Atractis penneri <Unverified Name>[8]
Physaloptera retusa[8]
Spauligodon giganticus[8]

Range Map

External References

NatureServe Explorer

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Length–weight allometries in lizards, S. Meiri, Journal of Zoology 281 (2010) 218–226
♦ 2Nathan P. Myhrvold, Elita Baldridge, Benjamin Chan, Dhileep Sivam, Daniel L. Freeman, and S. K. Morgan Ernest. 2015. An amniote life-history database to perform comparative analyses with birds, mammals, and reptiles. Ecology 96:3109
♦ 3Meiri, Shai (2019), Data from: Traits of lizards of the world: variation around a successful evolutionary design, Dryad, Dataset, https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.f6t39kj
♦ 4Environmental differences in substrate mechanics do not affect sprinting performance in sand lizards (Uma scoparia and Callisaurus draconoides), Wyatt L. Korff, and Matthew J. McHenry, The Journal of Experimental Biology 214, 122-130 (2011)
♦ 5Food Habit of the Glossy Snake, Arizona elegans, with Comparisons to the Diet of Sympatric Long-nosed Snakes, Rhinocheilus lecontei, Javier A. Rodríguez-Robles, Christopher J. Bell, Harry W. Greene, Journal of Herpetology, Vol. 33, No. 1, pp. 87-92, 1999
♦ 6Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.
♦ 7The Cactus Ferruginous Pygmy-Owl: Taxonomy, Distribution, and Natural History, Jean-Luc E. Cartron, W. Scott Richardson, Glenn A. Proudfoot, USDA Forest Service Gen. Tech. Rep. RMRS-GTR-43. 2000
♦ 8Gibson, D. I., Bray, R. A., & Harris, E. A. (Compilers) (2005). Host-Parasite Database of the Natural History Museum, London
Ecoregions provided by World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF). WildFinder: Online database of species distributions, ver. 01.06 Wildfinder Database
Biodiversity Hotspots provided by Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund
Abstract provided by DBpedia licensed under a Creative Commons License
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0