Banded rock lizard

Banded rock lizard

Taxobox | name = Banded rock lizard


image_width = 240px
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Sauropsida
ordo = Squamata
familia = Phrynosomatidae
genus = "Petrosaurus"
species = "P. mearnsi"
binomial = "Petrosaurus mearnsi"

The Banded rock lizard ("Petrosaurus mearnsi") is an extremely flat bodied lizard with an olive, brown or grey dorsum and white or bluish spots on dorsum. It has a single black collar, a banded tail, and granular scales on its body with keeled tail and limb scales. It is 6.2 to 8.7 cm long. Males have more pronounced throat patterns and brighter blue coloring than females.

These lizards are associated with boulder hillsides.

References

* This article is based on a description from "A Field Guide to the Reptiles and Amphibians of Coastal Southern California", Robert N. Fisher and Ted J. Case, USGS, http://www.werc.usgs.gov/fieldguide/index.htm.


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