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Rock Horned Lizard (Phrynosoma ditmarsi)

[/vc_column_text][gap size=”12px” id=”” class=”” style=””][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_single_image image=”1284″ img_size=”large” alignment=”center” style=”vc_box_rounded”][vc_column_text]Adult female Rock Horned Lizard, Sierra de Murrieta (SW of Bacanora), Sonora. Photo by Robert Villa[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/2″][vc_single_image image=”1837″ img_size=”medium” alignment=”center” onclick=”img_link_large”][vc_column_text]Photo by Cecil Schwalbe[/vc_column_text][gap size=”12px” id=”” class=”” style=””][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/2″][vc_single_image image=”1836″ img_size=”medium” alignment=”center” style=”vc_box_rounded” onclick=”img_link_large”][vc_column_text]Hatchling Rock Horned Lizard, Sierra La Purica, Sonora, MX. Photo by Jim Rorabaugh[/vc_column_text][gap size=”12px” id=”” class=”” style=””][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/2″][vc_single_image image=”1843″ img_size=”medium” alignment=”center” style=”vc_box_rounded” onclick=”img_link_large”][vc_column_text]Adult female Rock Horned Lizard, Sierra de Murrieta (SW of Bacanora), Sonora. Photo by Robert Villa[/vc_column_text][gap size=”12px” id=”” class=”” style=””][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/2″][vc_single_image image=”1841″ img_size=”medium” alignment=”center” style=”vc_box_rounded” onclick=”img_link_large”][vc_column_text]Adult female Rock Horned Lizard, Sierra de Murrieta (SW of Bacanora), Sonora. Photo by Robert Villa[/vc_column_text][gap size=”12px” id=”” class=”” style=””][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/2″][vc_single_image image=”1840″ img_size=”medium” alignment=”center” style=”vc_box_rounded” onclick=”img_link_large”][vc_column_text]Adult female Rock Horned Lizard, Sierra de Murrieta (SW of Bacanora), Sonora. Photo by Robert Villa[/vc_column_text][gap size=”12px” id=”” class=”” style=””][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/2″][vc_single_image image=”1839″ img_size=”medium” alignment=”center” style=”vc_box_rounded” onclick=”img_link_large”][vc_column_text]Adult female Rock Horned Lizard, Sierra de Murrieta (SW of Bacanora), Sonora. Photo by Robert Villa[/vc_column_text][gap size=”12px” id=”” class=”” style=””][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/2″][vc_single_image image=”1842″ img_size=”medium” alignment=”center” style=”vc_box_rounded” onclick=”img_link_large”][vc_column_text]Venter of adult female Rock Horned Lizard, Sierra de Murrieta (SW of Bacanora), Sonora. Photo by Robert Villa[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/6″][/vc_column][vc_column width=”2/3″][vc_column_text]

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Editor’s Note: Follow the link below to access two articles about the Rock Horned Lizard from the January 1997 issue of the Sonoran Herptologist. Note that some of the names used in these articles have changed: Phrynosoma douglassi is now P. hernandesi, Gerrhonotus levicolis is now Barisia levicolis, and Gerrhonotus kingi is now Elgaria kingii. The Rock Horned Lizard is currently known from 10 localities, all in Sonora, from the Sierras Manzanal and Baviácora south to about 23 km SE of the Rio Yaqui bridge on Highway 16.  It has been documented in hilly and rocky examples of foothills thornscrub, tropical deciduous forest – oak woodland transition, and grassy oak woodland or oak and juniper slopes at elevations of about 1000-1425 m. 

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