| Crotaphytus | |
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| Crotaphytus collaris | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Order: | Squamata |
| Suborder: | Iguania |
| Family: | Crotaphytidae |
| Genus: | Crotaphytus Holbrook, 1842 |
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.
Species
The following species and subspecies are recognized as being valid.[1]
| Image | Scientific name | Common name | Distribution |
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Crotaphytus antiquus Axtell & Webb, 1995 | venerable collared lizard | Sierra San Lorenzo, Sierra Texas, and Sierra Solis in extreme southwestern Coahuila state, Mexico |
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Crotaphytus bicinctores N.M. Smith & W.W. Tanner, 1972 | Great Basin collared lizard or desert collared lizard | Western United States |
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Crotaphytus collaris (Say, 1823) | common collared lizard | Mexico and the south-central United States (Arizona, Arkansas, Colorado, Kansas, Missouri, New Mexico, Oklahoma, and Texas) |
| Crotaphytus dickersonae K.P. Schmidt, 1922 | Sonoran collared lizard | Mexico | |
| Crotaphytus grismeri McGuire, 1994 | Grismer's collared lizard | Baja California, Mexico | |
| Crotaphytus insularis Van Denburgh & Slevin, 1921 | eastern collared lizard | Mexico | |
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Crotaphytus nebrius Axtell & Montanucci, 1977 | Sonoran collared lizard | U.S. state of Arizona and the Mexican state of Sonora |
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Crotaphytus reticulatus Baird, 1858 | reticulated collared lizard | US state of Texas, Mexico (Coahuila, Nuevo León, and Tamaulipas) |
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Crotaphytus vestigium N.M. Smith & W.W. Tanner, 1972 | Baja California collared lizard | California (United States) and Baja California (Mexico) |
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.
Symbol
In 1969, Oklahoma designated its first state reptile when it chose the collared lizard.[2]
References
- Citations
- ^ Genus Crotaphytus at The Reptile Database www.reptile-database.org.
- ^ 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.
External links
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This page was last edited on 28 December 2023, at 12:27