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Cophosaurus texanus (Greater Earless Lizard)

Synonyms: Holbrookia affinis; Holbrookia texana; Holbrookia texana reticulata; Holbrookia texana scitula

Wikipedia Abstract

The greater earless lizard (Cophosaurus texanus) is a species of earless lizard endemic to the southwestern United States. It is called "greater" because it grows larger than the earless lizards of the genus Holbrookia, to which it is closely related. While C. texanus is the only species within its genus, it does have two subspecies.
View Wikipedia Record: Cophosaurus texanus

Infraspecies

Cophosaurus texanus reticulatus
Cophosaurus texanus scitulus (Southwestern earless lizard)
Cophosaurus texanus texanus (Texas earless lizard)

Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  8.5 grams
Birth Weight [1]  1 grams
Habitat Substrate [2]  Saxicolous, Terrestrial
Litter Size [1]  6
Litters / Year [1]  3
Reproductive Mode [2]  Oviparous
Snout to Vent Length [1]  2.362 inches (6 cm)

Ecoregions

Protected Areas

Biodiversity Hotspots

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

Consumers

Parasitized by 
Atractis penneri <Unverified Name>[3]
Mesocestoides tetrathyridium <Unverified Name>[3]
Parathelandros texanus[3]

Range Map

External References

NatureServe Explorer

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Nathan 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
♦ 2Meiri, 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
♦ 3Gibson, 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