| Sunning Side-Blotched Lizard | [ Sizes: Orig | Med | Small | Thumb ] |
Male side-blotched lizard (?? see comments), Dinosaur National Monument.
Comments
[ Post a Comment ]| Deb | Cute | | 
Voted 10/10 | I'd like to have one of those in my yard. :) | | Posted Jan 25, 2007 9:05 pm |
 | | Arthur Digbee | Re: Cute | | 
Hasn't voted | Me too, mostly because I wish my yard were someplace else. :( | | Posted Jan 25, 2007 9:15 pm |
| Anya Jingle | Western fence lizard? | | 
Voted 10/10 | Nice photo. I love these little "dinos" ;) I think this might be a Side-blotched Lizard though. Side-blotched Lizards have a black spot on the side of the body just behind the front legs.
How big was he?
I assume it is a male based on the bulge at the base of his tail and his blue coloration.
| | Posted Feb 10, 2007 1:02 am |
| | Arthur Digbee | Re: Western fence lizard? | |
Hasn't voted | Thanks for the comment, and the second opinion on the species. This ID has been bugging me.
He does look more like this:
http://coloherp.org/geo/species/speutst.php
But not like any of these four:
http://www.wildherps.com/species/U.stansburiana.html
or this:
http://dwrcdc.nr.utah.gov/rsgis2/Search/Display.asp?FlNm=utaxstan
But maybe those are females.
| | Posted Feb 10, 2007 1:36 am |
| | Anya Jingle | Re: Western fence lizard? | |
Voted 10/10 | Side-blotched females look quite different from males. I know from experience that identification of small lizards can be tough. I have asked one of our local biologist to help me identify some of the lizards in my slideshow and a few I was not sure what they were turned out to be Side-blotched females. You can check out the slideshow here: Lizards around Las Vegas
| | Posted Feb 10, 2007 3:50 am |
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