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Phrynosoma hernandesi (Mountain Short-horned Lizard; greater short-horned lizards)

Synonyms: Phrynosoma douglasii hernandesi; Phrynosoma ornatum; Tapaya hernandesi

Wikipedia Abstract

The greater short-horned lizard (Phrynosoma hernandesi ), also commonly known as the mountain short-horned lizard, is a species of lizard endemic to western North America. Like other horned lizards, it is often wrongly called a "horned toad" or "horny toad", but it is not a toad at all. It is a reptile, not an amphibian. It is one of seven native species of lizards in Canada.
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Infraspecies

Phrynosoma hernandesi hernandesi
Phrynosoma hernandesi ornatum

Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  23 grams
Birth Weight [1]  1 grams
Female Weight [1]  29 grams
Habitat Substrate [2]  Terrestrial
Litter Size [1]  15
Litters / Year [1]  1
Maximum Longevity [1]  1 year
Reproductive Mode [2]  Viviparous
Snout to Vent Length [1]  3.543 inches (9 cm)

Habitat Vegetation Classification

Name Location  Website 
Intermountain Basins Big Sagebrush Desert Shrubland United States (Oregon, Wyoming, Colorado, California, Idaho, Nevada, Arizona, New Mexico, Utah); Canada
Intermountain Basins Big Sagebrush Steppe Canada (British Columbia); United States (Washington, Idaho, Wyoming, Nevada, Montana, Oregon, Utah, Colorado)
Intermountain Montane Sagebrush Steppe Canada; United States (Colorado, Idaho, Utah, Arizona, Montana, Nevada, California, Oregon, Wyoming)
Madrean Pinyon - Juniper Woodland Mexico (Coahuila, Chihuahua, Nuevo Leon, Durango, Sonora, Tamaulipas); United States (Texas, New Mexico, Arizona)

Predators

Arizona elegans (arenicola)[3]
Buteo swainsoni (Swainson's Hawk)[4]

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
♦ 4Jorrit 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.
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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