Texas Lizards

A Field Guide

by Troy D. Hibbitts and Toby J. Hibbitts

Foreword by Laurie J. Vitt

Published by: University of Texas Press

Series: Texas Natural History Guides

351 pages, 114.00 x 184.00 mm, 229 color photos, 53 maps

ISBN: 9780292759343
Published: May 2015

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Contents
Authors
Praise

Foreword (Laurie J. Vitt)
Acknowledgments
Introduction
- What Is a Lizard?
- Natural History
  - Activity and Seasonality
  - Reproduction
  - Behavior
- Conservation
  - Texas Biogeography and Landforms
  - Habitat Loss
  - Pollution
  - Climate Change
  - Introduced Species
  - Collecting and Trade as a Cause of Decline
- Observing and Collecting Lizards
  - Observing Lizards
  - Photographing Lizards
  - Collecting Lizards
  - Legal Aspects of Collecting Lizards
  - Permits and Collecting Lizards in Texas
  - Threatened, Endangered, or Protected Nongame Species
- Maintenance of Lizards
  - Maintaining Lizards in Captivity
  - Creating Lizard Habitat
  - Handling Lizards
- Museum and Preserved Lizard Specimens
- Scientific and Common Names
- Dichotomous Key to Texas Lizards
Dichotomous Keys
Key to Texas Lizards
Systematic Accounts
Order Squamata, Suborder Iguania
- Family Crotaphytidae
  - Eastern Collared Lizard (Crotaphytus collaris)
  - Reticulate Collared Lizard (Crotaphytus reticulatus)
  - Long-nosed Leopard Lizard (Gambelia wislizenii)
- Family Iguanidae
  - Mexican Spiny-tailed Iguana (Ctenosaura pectinata); introduced species
- Family Phrynosomatidae
  - Greater Earless Lizard (Cophosaurus texanus)
  - Spot-tailed Earless Lizard (Holbrookia lacerata)
  - Lesser Earless Lizard (Holbrookia maculata)
  - Keeled Earless Lizard (Holbrookia propinqua)
  - Texas Horned Lizard (Phrynosoma cornutum)
  - Greater Short-horned Lizard (Phrynosoma hernandesi)
  - Round-tailed Horned Lizard (Phrynosoma modestum)
  - Common Side-blotched Lizard (Uta stansburiana)
  - Ornate Tree Lizard (Urosaurus ornatus)
  - Rose-bellied Lizard (Sceloporus variabilis)
  - Canyon Lizard (Sceloporus merriami)
  - Mesquite Lizard (Sceloporus grammicus)
  - Dunes Sagebrush Lizard (Sceloporus arenicolus)
  - Eastern Fence Lizard Complex (Sceloporus undulatus complex)
  - Texas Spiny Lizard (Sceloporus olivaceus)
  - Desert Spiny Lizard (Sceloporus magister)
  - Blue Spiny Lizard (Sceloporus cyanogenys)
  - Crevice Spiny Lizard (Sceloporus poinsetti)
- Family Polychrotidae
  - Green Anole (Anolis carolinensis)
  - Brown Anole (Anolis sagrei); introduced species
Order Squamata, Suborder Scleroglossa
- Infraorder Gekkota
- Family Eublepharidae
  - Texas Banded Gecko (Coleonyx brevis)
  - Reticulated Gecko (Coleonyx reticulatus)
- Family Gekkonidae
  - Rough-tailed Gecko (Cyrtopodion scabrum); introduced species
  - Common House Gecko (Hemidactylus frenatus); introduced species
  - Indo-Pacific House Gecko (Hemidactylus garnoti); introduced, unisexual species
  - Mediterranean Gecko (Hemidactylus turcicus); introduced species
- Infraorder Scincomorpha
- Family Scincidae
  - Coal Skink (Plestiodon anthracinus)
  - Prairie Skink (Plestiodon septentrionalis)
  - Four-lined Skink (Plestiodon tetragrammus)
  - Five-lined Skink (Plestiodon fasciatus)
  - Broad-headed Skink (Plestiodon laticeps)
  - Many-lined Skink (Plestiodon multivirgatus)
  - Great Plains Skink (Plestiodon obsoletus)
  - Ground Skink (Scincella lateralis)
- Family Teiidae
  - Texas Spotted Whiptail (Aspidoscelis gularis)
  - Rusty-rumped Whiptail (Aspidoscelis septemvittata)
  - Little Striped Whiptail (Aspidoscelisinornata)
  - Marbled Whiptail (Aspidoscelis marmorata)
  - Six-lined Racerunner (Aspidoscelis sexlineata)
  - Gray Checkered Whiptail (Aspidoscelis dixoni); unisexual species
  - Common Checkered Whiptail (Aspidoscelis tesselata); unisexual species
  - Chihuahuan Spotted Whiptail (Aspidoscelis exsanguis); unisexual species
  - New Mexico Whiptail (Aspidoscelis neomexicana); unisexual species
  - Desert Grassland Whiptail (Aspidoscelis uniparens); unisexual species
  - Laredo Striped Whiptail (Aspidoscelis laredoensis); unisexual species
- Infraorder Diploglossa
- Family Anguidae
  - Texas Alligator Lizard (Gerrhonotus infernalis)
  - Slender Glass Lizard (Ophisaurus attenuatus)
Appendix A: Species with Texas Records of Questionable Origin
Appendix B: Nonestablished Exotic Species
Appendix C: Lizard Informational Resources
Appendix D: Map of Texas Counties
Glossary
Bibliography
Index of Common Names
Index of Scientific Names

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