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==Species and subspecies== The following 21 species (listed alphabetically by scientific name) are recognized as being valid by the [[Reptile Database]], three species of which have recognized [[subspecies]]:<ref>{{EMBL genus|genus=Phrynosoma}} www.reptile-database.org.</ref> {| class="wikitable" |- ! Image !! Common Name !! Scientific Name !! Subspecies !!Distribution |- |[[File:Gfp-mexican-west-coast-giant-horned-lizard (crop 1).jpg|120px]] ||[[Giant horned lizard]] || ''Phrynosoma asio'' {{small|[[Edward Drinker Cope|Cope]], 1864}} || ||southern Mexico |- | ||[[Baur's short-horned lizard]] || ''Phrynosoma bauri'' {{small|[[species:Richard R. Montanucci|Montanucci]], 2015}} (disputed; may be conspecific with ''P. hernandesi'') || ||United States ( southern Wyoming and Nebraska south through eastern Colorado to northern New Mexico) |- |[[File:Phrynosoma blainvillii 131129535.jpg|120px]] ||[[San Diego horned lizard]] or Blainville's horned lizard ||''Phrynosoma blainvillii'' {{small|[[John Edward Gray|Gray]], 1839}} || ||United States (southern and central California), Mexico (northern Baja California). |- |[[File:Phrynosoma braconnieri.jpg|120px]] ||[[Short-tailed horned lizard]] ||''Phrynosoma braconnieri'' {{small|[[Auguste Duméril|A.H.A. Duméril]], 1870}} || || Mexico (Puebla and Oaxaca) |- |[[File:Phrynosoma hernandesi - Flickr - aspidoscelis (11).jpg|120px]] ||[[Great Plains short-horned lizard]] || ''Phrynosoma brevirostris'' {{small|([[Charles Frédéric Girard|Girard]], 1858)}} (disputed; may be conspecific with ''P. hernandesi'') || || Canada and the United States |- | ||[[Cedros Island horned lizard]] || ''Phrynosoma cerroense'' {{small|[[Leonhard Stejneger|Stejneger]], 1893}} || || Mexico (Cedros Island) |- |[[File:Phrynosoma cornutum - Flickr - aspidoscelis (4).jpg|120px]] ||[[Texas horned lizard]] ||''Phrynosoma cornutum'' {{small|([[Richard Harlan|Harlan]], 1825)}} || ||United States (southeast Colorado, central and southern areas of Kansas, central and western areas of Oklahoma and Texas, southeast New Mexico, and extreme southeast Arizona), Mexico (eastern Sonora, most of Chihuahua, northeast Durango, northern Zacatecas and San Luis Potosí, and throughout most of Coahuila, Nuevo León, and Tamaulipas.) |- |[[File:09-036 Horned Lizard (Phyrnosoma coronatum) (3481417849).jpg|120px]] ||[[Coast horned lizard]] || ''[[Coast horned lizard|Phrynosoma coronatum]]'' {{small|([[Henri Marie Ducrotay de Blainville|Blainville]], 1835)}} || *Cape horned lizard, ''P. c. coronatum'' {{small|(Blainville, 1835)}} *California horned lizard, ''P. c. frontale'' {{small|[[J. Van Denburgh|Van Denburgh]], 1894}} *Central peninsular horned lizard, ''P. c. jamesi'' {{small|[[Karl Patterson Schmidt|Schmidt]], 1922}} || Mexico (Baja California Sur ) |- | ||[[San Luis Valley short-horned lizard]] || ''Phrynosoma diminutum'' {{small|Montanucci, 2015}} (disputed; may be conspecific with ''P. hernandesi'') || ||United States (Colorado) |- | ||Ditmars' horned lizard or [[rock horned lizard]] || ''Phrynosoma ditmarsi'' {{small|Stejneger, 1906}} || || Mexico (Sonora), United States (Arizona) |- |[[File:Phrynosoma douglasii 4244.JPG|120px]] ||[[Pygmy short-horned lizard]] || ''Phrynosoma douglasii'' {{small|([[Thomas Bell (zoologist)|Bell]], 1828)}} || ||northwestern United States and adjacent southwestern Canada |- | ||[[Sonoran horned lizard]], Goode's desert horned lizard || ''Phrynosoma goodei'' {{small|Stejneger, 1893}} || ||United States (Arizona) and Mexico ([[Sonora]]) |- |[[File:Phrynosoma hernandesi - Flickr - aspidoscelis (11).jpg|120px]] ||[[Greater short-horned lizard]] || ''Phrynosoma hernandesi'' {{small|Girard, 1858}} || || southwestern United States and northwestern Mexico |- |[[File:Flat-Tailed Horned Lizard (5162160076).jpg|120px]] ||[[Flat-tail horned lizard]] || ''Phrynosoma mcallii'' {{small|([[Edward Hallowell (herpetologist)|Hallowell]], 1852)}} || ||United States and Mexico |- |[[File:Phrynosoma modestum - Flickr - aspidoscelis (18).jpg|120px]] ||[[Roundtail horned lizard]] || ''Phrynosoma modestum'' {{small|Girard, 1852}} || || United States( Texas, New Mexico eastern Arizona, southeastern Colorado), northcentral Mexico |- |[[File:Lagarto Cornudo Camaleón Cornudo Iv (233411137).jpeg|120px]] ||[[Mexican Plateau horned lizard]] or Chihuahua Desert horned lizard || ''Phrynosoma orbiculare'' {{small|([[Carl Linnaeus|Linnaeus]], 1758)}} || *''P. o. bradti'' {{small|[[species:Samuel B. Horowitz|Horowitz]], 1955}} *''P. o. cortezii'' {{small|(A.H.A. Duméril & [[Marie Firmin Bocourt|Bocourt]], 1870)}} *''P. o. dugesii'' {{small|(A.H.A. Duméril & Bocourt, 1870)}} *''P. o. orbiculare'' {{small|(Linnaeus, 1758)}} *''P. o. orientale'' {{small|Horowitz, 1955}} ||Mexico (Chihuahua, Durango, Morelos, Nuevo León, Puebla, and Veracruz.) |- | ||[[Desert short-horned lizard]] || ''Phrynosoma ornatissimum'' {{small|(Girard, 1858)}} (disputed; may be conspecific with ''P. hernandesi'') || || Canada and the United States |- |[[File:Desert Horned Lizard.jpg|120px]] ||[[Desert horned lizard]] || ''Phrynosoma platyrhinos'' {{small|Girard, 1852}} || *Southern desert horned lizard, ''P. p. calidiarum'' {{small|(Cope, 1896)}} *[[Northern desert horned lizard]], ''P. p. platyrhinos'' {{small|Girard, 1852}} || southern Idaho in the north to northern Mexico |- | ||[[Guerreran horned lizard]] ||''Phrynosoma sherbrookei'' [[species:Adrián Nieto-Montes de Oca|Nieto-Montes de Oca]], [[species:Diego Miguel Arenas-Moreno|Arenas-Moreno]], [[species:Elizabeth Beltrán-Sánchez|Beltrán-Sánchez]] & [[species:Adam D. Leaché|Leaché]], 2014 || ||Mexico. |- |[[File:Horned lizard 032507 kdh.jpg|120px]] ||[[Regal horned lizard]] || ''Phrynosoma solare'' {{small|Gray, 1845}} || ||Arizona and Mexico |- |[[File:Mexican horned lizard, Phrynosoma taurus.jpg|120px]] ||[[Mexican horned lizard]] || ''Phrynosoma taurus'' {{small|[[Alfredo Dugès|Dugès]], 1873}} || ||Mexico (Guerrero and Puebla) |- |} ''Note'': In the above list, a [[Binomial nomenclature|binomial authority]] or [[Trinomen|trinomial authority]] in parentheses indicates that the species or subspecies was originally described in a genus other than ''Phrynosoma''. [[File:Horned lizards.jpg|240px|thumb|Comparison of ''P. modestum'' and ''P. platyrhinos'']]
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