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Holbrookia maculata (Lesser Earless Lizard; common lesser earless lizard)

Synonyms: Holbrookia bunkeri; Holbrookia dickersonae; Holbrookia maculata approximans; Holbrookia pulchra

Wikipedia Abstract

The speckled earless lizard (Holbrookia maculata approximans) is a subspecies of the lesser earless lizard (Holbrookia maculata), which is found in the Southwestern United States and northern Mexico. It is sometimes referred to as the western earless lizard.
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Infraspecies

Holbrookia maculata bunkeri (Bunkers Earless Lizard)
Holbrookia maculata campi
Holbrookia maculata dickersonae
Holbrookia maculata flavilenta
Holbrookia maculata maculata (Northern earless lizard)
Holbrookia maculata perspicua (Eastern earless lizard)
Holbrookia maculata pulchra (Huachuca earless lizard)
Holbrookia maculata ruthveni (Bleached earless lizard)

Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  4.9 grams
Female Weight [2]  6 grams
Habitat Substrate [3]  Terrestrial
Litter Size [2]  5
Litters / Year [2]  2
Reproductive Mode [3]  Oviparous
Snout to Vent Length [2]  1.968 inches (5 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

Predators

Sistrurus tergeminus (Desert massasauga)[4]
Xerospermophilus spilosoma (spotted ground squirrel)[5]

Consumers

Parasitized by 
Atractis penneri <Unverified Name>[6]

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
♦ 4Variation in the Diet of Sistrurus catenatus (Massasauga), with Emphasis on Sistrurus catenatus edwardsii (Desert Massasauga); Andrew T. Holycross and Stephen P. Mackessy; Journal of Herpetology, Vol. 36, No. 3, pp. 454–464, 2002
♦ 5Spermophilus spilosoma, Donald P. Streubel and James P. Fitzgerald, MAMMALIAN SPECIES No. 101, pp. 1-4 (1978)
♦ 6Gibson, 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