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Sonoran horned lizard

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Species of lizard

Sonoran horned lizard
Conservation status

Least Concern  (IUCN 3.1)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Squamata
Suborder: Iguania
Family: Phrynosomatidae
Genus: Phrynosoma
Species: P. goodei
Binomial name
Phrynosoma goodei
Stejneger, 1893
Synonyms
  • Phrynosoma goodei
    Stejneger, 1893
  • Anota goodei
    — Cope, 1896
  • Phrynosoma platyrhinos goodei
    — Pianka, 1991
  • Phrynosoma goodei
    — Mulcahy et al., 2006
  • Phrynosoma (Doliosaurus) goodei
    — Crother, 2012

The Sonoran horned lizard (Phrynosoma goodei), also known commonly as Goode's desert horned lizard and el camaleón de Sonora in Mexican Spanish, is a species of horned lizard in the family Phrynosomatidae. The species is native to Arizona in the United States and to Sonora in Mexico.

Etymology

The specific name, goodei, is in honor of American ichthyologist George Brown Goode.

Habitat

The preferred natural habitat of P. goodei is shrubland.

Reproduction

P. goodei is oviparous. The eggs are buried in the ground.

References

  1. ^ Hammerson GA (2019). "Phrynosoma goodei ". The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2019. https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/89974730/89974758
  2. ^ Phrynosoma goodei at the Reptarium.cz Reptile Database. Accessed 23 August 2021.
  3. Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. ISBN 978-1-4214-0135-5. (Phrynosoma goodei, p. 104).

Further reading

  • Klauber LM (1935). "The Status of the Sonoran Horned Toad, Phrynosoma goodei Stejneger". Copeia 1935 (4): 178–179.
  • Lara-Resendiz, Rafael Alejandro; Jezkova, Tereza; Rosen, Philip C.; Méndez-de La Cruz, Fausto Roberto (2014). "Thermoregulation during the summer season in the Goode's horned lizard Phrynosoma goodei (Iguania: Phrynosomatidae) in Sonoran Desert". Amphibia-Reptilia 35 (2): 161–172.
  • Smith HM (1939). "An annotated list of the Mexican amphibians and reptiles in the Carnegie Museum". Annals of the Carnegie Museum 27: 311–320. (Phrynosoma platyrhinos goodei, p. 315).
  • Stejneger L (1893). "Annotated List of the Reptiles and Batrachians Collected by the Death Valley Expedition in 1891, with Descriptions of New Species". North American Fauna (7): 159–228 + Plates I–IV. (Phrynosoma goodei, new species, pp. 191–192 + Plate II, figures 3a–3c).


Taxon identifiers
Phrynosoma goodei


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