Phrynosoma ditmarsi

• Overview
• Interesting Facts
• Common Names
• Description
• Taxonomy
• Similar Species
• More Info
• Further Reading
• Notes

Overview

Interesting Facts

Common Names

Description

Habitat

Biome: Terrestrial [1].

Ecology: This species can be found in rocky habitats in evergreen oak and pine-oak woodland, short-tree Sinaloan decidous forest and thorn shrubland. However, its ecological requirements are very poorly known. [1].

List of Habitats:

•     1     Forest   
  
•     1.4     Forest - Temperate   
  
•     3     Shrubland   
  
•     3.4     Shrubland - Temperate   
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Taxonomy

Synonyms

Phrynosoma ditmarsi — Liner 1994 • Phrynosoma ditmarsi — Pianka & Vitt 2003: 161 • Phrynosoma ditmarsi — Smith & Taylor 1950: 104

Notes

Name Status: Accepted Name .

Comment: Holotype: USNM 36022 Reproduction : viviparous Habitat : montane Belongs to the Tapaja clade fide LEACHE and MCGUIRE 2006.

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.
• Annual report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution. Washington: Smithsonian Institution, -1965. url .
• Brigham Young University science bulletin. 9 1968 Provo, Utah: Brigham Young University, [1955-1976] url , p. 28, p. 29, p. 30, p. 31.
• Bulletin - United States National Museum. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, [etc.];1877-1971. url p. 104, p. 128, p. 227.
• Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College. 93 1943 Cambridge, Mass.: The Museum, 1863- url p. 93.
• Name that animal; a guide to the identification of the common land and fresh-water animals of the United States, with special reference to the area east of the Rockies. With drawings by Olive Driver. Northampton? Mass., 1950 url p. 364.
• Occasional papers of the California Academy of Sciences. San Francisco: California Academy of Sciences, url p. 32, p. 386.
• The Canadian field-naturalist. Ottawa, Ottawa Field-Naturalists' Club. url p. 780.
• The University of Kansas science bulletin. 33 1950 [Lawrence]: University of Kansas, 1902-1996. url p. 343, p. 375, p. 818, p. 835, p. 836, p. 839, p. 940.
• 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. 32, p. 386.
• University of California publications in zoology. Berkeley: University Press, 1906- url p. 5.

Notes

Contributors

• Brands, S.J. (comp.) 1989-present. The Taxonomicon. Universal Taxonomic Services, Zwaag, The Netherlands. Accessed February 5, 2012.
• Frost, D.R., Hammerson, G.A., Gadsden. H. & Sherbrooke, W. 2007. Phrynosoma ditmarsi. In: IUCN 2011. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloadedon 03February2012.
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Accessed February 27, 2008. http://www.gbif.org Mediated distribution data from 2 providers.
• IUCN 2012. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. . Downloaded on January 28, 2012.
• Ruggiero M., Gordon D., Bailly N., Kirk P., Nicolson D. (2011). The Catalogue of Life Taxonomic Classification, Edition 2, Part A. In: Species 2000 and ITIS Catalogue of Life: 2011 Annual Checklist (Bisby F.A., Roskov Y.R., Orrell T.M., Nicolson D., Paglinawan L.E., Bailly N., Kirk P.M., Bourgoin T., Baillargeon G., Ouvrard D., eds). DVD; Species 2000: Reading, UK.
• TIGR Reptile Database . Release date: October 2, 2007
• Uetz, Peter. The Reptile Database

Data Sources

Accessed through GBIF Data Portal February 27, 2008:

• Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History: Vertebrate specimens
• Museum of Vertebrate Zoology: Terrestrial vertebrate specimens

Identifiers

• Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 2543668
• Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: Rep-5649
• Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) Taxonomic Serial Number (TSN): 585964
• IUCN ID: 232265
• Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 134522

Footnotes

1. Frost, D.R., Hammerson, G.A., Gadsden. H. & Sherbrooke, W. 2007. Phrynosoma ditmarsi. In: IUCN 2011. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 03 February 2012. [back]

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