Pygmy Short-horned Lizard (Phrynosoma douglasii)
Created: January 21st, 2015 - 03:06 PM
Last Modified: January 21st, 2015 - 03:41 PM Entered by: Alan St. John
Record 214146
Last Modified: January 21st, 2015 - 03:41 PM Entered by: Alan St. John
Record 214146
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Country: United States |
State: Oregon |
County: Lake County |
Time: 2009-08-11 14:00:00 |
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Qty: 1 |
Age: Adult |
Sex: Female |
Method: Visual encounter |
Habitat: High elevation stunted sagebrush/bunchgrass on sandy-gravelly soil |
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Body Temperature: ----- |
Air Temperature: 70.00F |
Ground Temperature: ----- |
Humidity: ----- |
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Sky Conditions: Partly Cloudy |
Moon Phase: ----- |
Elevation: 7000.00ft |
Barometric Pressure: ----- |
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Notes
This female from the Warner Peak area of Hart Mountain National Antelope Refuge was noticeably pregnant. And as I've observed in other populations of P. douglasii in the open sagebrush steppelands of the Northwest, it's relatively larger (nearly 4-inches snout-to-tail-tip) than the pygmy P. douglasii to the west in the pine-juniper wooded Cascade Mountains. Also, this sagelands form of P. douglasii is "beefier" and more prickly-spiny in form with a broader cranium---characteristics similar to P. hernandesi. Likewise, when captured, these steppeland P. douglasii inflate their body like a rotund balloon, and some squirt blood from their eyes like a P. hernandesi. The Cascade pygmies do not exhibit these defensive behaviors.
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