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Phrynosoma cornutum (Texas Horned Lizard)

Synonyms: Agama cornuta; Phrynosoma brevicornis; Phrynosoma bufonium; Phrynosoma harlanii; Phrynosoma planiceps

Wikipedia Abstract

The Texas horned lizard (Phrynosoma cornutum) is one of about 14 North American species of spikey-bodied reptiles called horned lizards. P. cornutum ranges from Colorado and Kansas to northern Mexico (in the Sonoran desert), and from southeastern Arizona to Texas. Also, isolated, introduced populations are found in the Carolinas, Georgia, and northern Florida. Texas horned lizards may also be native to Louisiana and Arkansas.
View Wikipedia Record: Phrynosoma cornutum

Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  27 grams
Female Weight [1]  16 grams
Male Weight [1]  39 grams
Weight Dimorphism [1]  143.8 %
Gestation [1]  51 days
Litter Size [1]  21
Litters / Year [1]  2
Reproductive Mode [2]  Oviparous
Snout to Vent Length [1]  3.15 inches (8 cm)
Habitat Substrate [2]  Terrestrial

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

Habitat Vegetation Classification

Name Location  Website 
Chihuahuan Piedmont & Foothill Desert Scrub Mexico (Nuevo Leon, Coahuila, Chihuahua, San Luis Potosi, Durango, Sonora); United States (New Mexico, Arizona, Texas)

Emblem of

Texas

Predators

Arizona elegans (arenicola)[3]
Glaucidium brasilianum cactorum (cactus ferruginous pygmy-owl)[4]

Consumers

Parasitized by 
Atractis penneri <Unverified Name>[5]
Diochetos phrynosomatis <Unverified Name>[5]
Skrjabinoptera phrynosoma <Unverified Name>[5]

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
♦ 3Food 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
♦ 4The 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
♦ 5Gibson, 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