Crotaphytus

<i>Crotaphytus</i>

Crotaphytus

Genus of lizards

Crotaphytus is a genus of lizards, commonly known as collared lizards, in the family Crotaphytidae. Member species are small to medium-sized predators indigenous to the American southwest, Baja peninsula, and Mexico. Including the tail, they can be as small as 7 in (18 cm) or as long as 14 in (36 cm), and are characterized by distinct bands of black or brown around the neck, to which their common names refer.

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Species

A collared lizard posing on a rock in Colorado

The following species and subspecies are recognized as being valid.[1]

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Nota bene: A binomial authority in parentheses or a trinomial authority in parentheses indicates that the species or subspecies was originally described in a genus other than Crotaphytus.

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In 1969, Oklahoma designated its first state reptile when it chose the collared lizard.[2]

References

Citations
  1. [1]
    Genus Crotaphytus at The Reptile Database www.reptile-database.org.
  2. [2]
    Shearer 1994, p. 309
Bibliography
  • Holbrook JE (1842). North American Herpetology; or, A Description of the Reptiles Inhabiting the United States. Vol. II. (Second edition). Philadelphia: J. Dobson. 142 pp. (Crotaphytus, new genus, p. 79).
  • Shearer, Benjamin F.; Shearer, Barbara S. (1994). State Names, Seals, Flags, and Symbols (2nd ed.). Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Publishing Group. ISBN 0-313-28862-3.



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