Interesting Facts
Common Names
Common Names in English:
Mountain Short-Horned Lizard
Taxonomy
- Kingdom:
Animalia
(
)
- animals
- Genus:
Phrynosoma
()
- Specific name:
douglassii
- Subspecies:
hernandesi
- Scientific name: - Phrynosoma douglassii hernandesi Girard, 1858
- Subspecies:
hernandesi
- Specific name:
douglassii
- Genus:
Phrynosoma
(
Similar Species
Members of the genus Phrynosoma
ZipcodeZoo has pages for 27 species and subspecies in this genus:
P. asio (Giant Horned Lizard) · P. blainvillii (San Diego Horned Lizard) · P. braconnieri (Short-Tail Horned Lizard) · P. cerroense (Cedros Island Horned Lizard) · P. cornutum (Texas Horned Lizard) · P. coronatum (Blainville Horned Lizard) · P. coronatum blainvilli (Coast Horned Lizard) · P. coronatum blainvillii (Coast Horned Lizard) · P. coronatum frontale (California Horned Lizard) · P. ditmarsi (Rock Horned Lizard) · P. douglasii (Pygmy Horned Lizard) · P. douglasii douglasii (Pigmy Short-Horned Lizard) · P. douglassii (Eastern Short-Horned Lizard) · P. douglassii douglassii (Pigmy Short-Horned Lizard) · P. douglassii hernandesi (Mountain Short-Horned Lizard) · P. douglassii ornatissimum (Desert Short-Horned Lizard) · P. douglassii ornatum (Salt Lake Short-Horned Lizard) · P. hernandesi (Greater Short-Horned Lizards) · P. mcallii (Flat-Tailed Horned Lizard) · P. modestum (Round-Tailed Horned Lizard) · P. orbiculare (Mexican Horned Toad) · P. platyrhinos (Desert Horned Lizard) · P. platyrhinos calidiarum (Desert Horned Lizard) · P. platyrhinos platyrhinos (Desert Horned Lizard) · P. solare (Regal Horned Lizard) · P. taurus (Mexican Horned Lizard) · P. wigginsi (Gulf Coast Horned Lizard)
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Further Reading
- A check list of North American amphibians and reptiles / by Leonhard Stejneger and Thomas Barbour. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1933. url p. 67, p. 61.
- Bulletin - United States National Museum. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, [etc.];1877-1971. url p. 100, p. 110, p. 150, p. 219, p. 227.
- Bulletin / Chicago Natural History Museum. [Chicago, Ill.]: The Museum, [1944-1966] url p. 5.
- Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College. 93 1943 Cambridge, Mass.: The Museum, 1863- url p. 94.
- Ethnozoology of the Tewa Indians, by Junius Henderson and John Peabody Harrington. Washington, Govt. Print. Off., 1914. url p. 48.
- Mammals of the Mexican boundary of the United States: a descriptive catalogue of the species of mammals occurring in that region; with a general summary of the natural history, and a list of trees / Washington: Govt. Print. Off., 1907. url .
- Occasional papers of the Boston Society of Natural History. Boston, Boston Society of Natural History, 1869-1941. url p. 20, p. 21.
- Occasional papers of the California Academy of Sciences. San Francisco: California Academy of Sciences, url p. 29, p. 369, p. 374, p. 378, p. 382, p. 383.
- Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington. Washington, Biological Society of Washington url p. 126.
- Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences, 4th series. San Francisco, California Academy of Sciences. url p. 191, p. 209, p. 709.
- Proceedings of the United States National Museum. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, [etc.] url p. 405, p. 405.
- The University of Colorado studies. Boulder, University of Colorado. url p. 72.
- The University of Kansas science bulletin. 34 1952 [Lawrence]: University of Kansas, 1902-1996. url p. 818, p. 919, p. 924, p. 927, p. 930.
- The amphibia and reptilia of Colorado / Max M. Ellis and Junius Henderson. Boulder: University of Colorado, 1913. url p. 72.
- The reptile book; a comprehensive, popularised work on the structure and habits of the turtles, tortoises, crocodilians, lizards and snakes which inhabit the United States and northern Mexico, by Raymond Lee Ditmars. .. eight plates in colour and more than four hundred photographs from life. New York: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1908 [c1907] url .
- The reptiles of western North America, an account of the species known to inhabit California and Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Utah, Nevada, Arizona, British Columbia, Sonora and Lower California, by John Van Denburgh, with one hundred and twenty-eight plates. San Francisco, California Academy of Sciences, 1922. url p. 29, p. 32, p. 369, p. 372, p. 374, p. 378, p. 382, p. 383.
Notes
Contributors
- Brands, S.J. (comp.) 1989-present. The Taxonomicon. Universal Taxonomic Services, Zwaag, The Netherlands. Accessed February 5, 2012.
Identifiers
- Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 2549813
- Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 2268326
