Crotaphytus
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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 Template:Cvt or as long as Template:Cvt, and are characterized by distinct bands of black or brown around the neck, to which their common names refer.
SpeciesEdit
The following species and subspecies are recognized as being valid.<ref>Template:EMBL genus www.reptile-database.org.</ref>
| Image | Scientific name | Common name | Distribution |
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| File:Crotaphytus antiquus male.jpg | Crotaphytus antiquus Template:Small | venerable collared lizard | Sierra San Lorenzo, Sierra Texas, and Sierra Solis in extreme southwestern Coahuila state, Mexico |
| File:Great Basin Collared Lizard - Crotaphytus bicinctores.jpg | Crotaphytus bicinctores Template:Small | Great Basin collared lizard or desert collared lizard | Western United States |
| File:Collared Lizard near Hatch Point.jpg | Crotaphytus collaris Template:Small | common collared lizard | Mexico and the south-central United States (Arizona, Arkansas, Colorado, Kansas, Missouri, New Mexico, Oklahoma, and Texas) |
| Crotaphytus dickersonae Template:Small | Sonoran collared lizard | Mexico | |
| Crotaphytus grismeri Template:Small | Grismer's collared lizard | Baja California, Mexico | |
| Crotaphytus insularis Template:Small | eastern collared lizard | Mexico | |
| File:Crotaphytus nebrius 71083611.jpg | Crotaphytus nebrius Template:Small | Sonoran collared lizard | U.S. state of Arizona and the Mexican state of Sonora |
| File:Crotaphytus reticulatus.jpg | Crotaphytus reticulatus Template:Small | reticulated collared lizard | US state of Texas, Mexico (Coahuila, Nuevo León, and Tamaulipas) |
| File:Crotaphytus vestigium 154842062.jpg | Crotaphytus vestigium Template:Small | 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.
SymbolEdit
In 1969, Oklahoma designated its first state reptile when it chose the collared lizard.<ref name="Shearer309">Template:Harvnb</ref>
ReferencesEdit
- Citations
- 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).
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