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Banded Rock Lizard - Petrosaurus mearnsi
Banded Rock Lizard - Petrosaurus mearnsi mearnsi
Lagarto de Roca Rayada
(Stejneger, 1894)(= Mearns' Rock Lizard)
| Species Description & More Pictures |
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| Adult, Cataviña, Baja California | ||
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| Adult, Puertecitos, Baja California © Stuart Young |
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| Habitat, Cataviña, Baja California | Habitat, Cataviña, Baja California | Habitat near Puertecitos, Baja California © Stuart Young |
| Short Videos of This Species | ||
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| An adult Banded Rock Lizard shows its rock climbing and jumping acrobatics, finally doing a defensive push-up display, then a juvenile lizard crawls around the face of a massive rock. | Banded Rock Lizards in the San Diego county, California desert. | Banded Rock Lizards on their rocks including one spotted at night. |
References:
Grismer, L. Lee. Amphibians and Reptiles of Baja California, Including Its Pacific Islands and the Islands in the Sea of Cortés. The University of California Press, 2002. McPeak, Ron H. Amphibians and Reptiles of Baja California. Sea Challengers, 2000. Samuel M. McGinnis and Robert C. Stebbins. Peterson Field Guide to Western Reptiles & Amphibians. 4th Edition. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company, 2018. Stebbins, Robert C. A Field Guide to Western Reptiles and Amphibians. 3rd Edition. Houghton Mifflin Company, 2003. The Reptile Database San Diego Natural History Museum |
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