Animalia > Chordata > Squamata > Phrynosomatidae > Callisaurus > Callisaurus draconoidesCallisaurus draconoides (Zebra-tailed Lizard)Synonyms: Callisaurus carmenensis; Callisaurus crinitus; Callisaurus draconoides gabbii; Callisaurus inusitatus; Callisaurus plasticus; Callisaurus rhodostictus; Callisaurus splendidus; Homalosaurus ventralis; Homolosaurus ventralis Zebra-tailed lizards (Callisaurus) are a genus of phrynosomatid lizards endemic to the southwestern United States and northwestern Mexico. |
| 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) |
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IUCN Category |
Area acres |
Location |
Species |
Website |
Climate |
Land Use |
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Alto Golfo de California y Delta del Rio Colorado Biosphere Reserve |
VI |
2320468 |
Sonora, Mexico |
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Anza-Borrego Desert State Park, CA |
III |
184543 |
California, United States |
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Coachella Valley Preserve Nature Conservancy - Preserve |
Ia |
8106 |
California, United States |
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Death Valley National Park |
II |
762125 |
California, Nevada, United States |
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Grand Canyon National Park |
II |
1210128 |
Arizona, United States |
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Great Basin National Park |
II |
77367 |
Nevada, United States |
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Hamilton Preserve Nature Conservancy - Preserve |
Ia |
52 |
California, United States |
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Joshua Tree National Park |
II |
305076 |
California, United States |
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Lake Mead National Recreation Area |
V |
670229 |
Arizona, Nevada, United States |
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Mojave and Colorado Deserts Biosphere Reserve |
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5901 |
California, United States |
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Organ Pipe Cactus Biosphere Reserve |
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327376 |
Arizona, United States |
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Parque Nacional de Sierra San Pedro Martir National Park |
II |
180607 |
Baja California, Mexico |
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Philip L. Boyd Deep Canyon Desert Research Center |
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6101 |
California, United States |
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Reserva de la Biosfera de la Amistad Biosphere Reserve |
II |
493313 |
Costa Rica |
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Reserva de la Biosfera El Vizcaino Biosphere Reserve |
VI |
6176727 |
Mexico |
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Habitat Vegetation Classification |
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Location |
Website |
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Colorado Plateau Pinyon - Juniper Woodland |
United States (New Mexico, Colorado, Arizona, California, Utah, Nevada) |
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Mojave Mid-Elevation Mixed Desert Scrub |
Mexico (Baja California); United States (New Mexico, Utah, Arizona, Nevada, California) |
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Mojave-Sonoran Bajada & Valley Desert Scrub |
Mexico (Sonora); United States (New Mexico, Nevada, Arizona, California) |
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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 |
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
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