Desert Spiny Lizard
Close-up of the male desert spiny lizard. While the females tend to be a more or less sandy color, the males have very dark markings on the neck, with turquoise to blue under the jaw and along the belly - often with orange to yellow markings on the side.
- Copyright
- © 2013
- Image Size
- 4288x2848 / 7.8MB
- Keywords
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America, American Southwest, Animalia, California, Chordata, Coachella, Coachella Valley, Coachella Valley Preserve, Lacertilia, Palm Springs, Phrynosomatidae, Riverside County, S. magister, San Andreas Fault, Sceloporus, Sceloporus magister, Squamata, USA, United States, Vertebrata, animal, animals, beautiful, beauty, camouflage, cold-blooded, color, colorful, creature, critter, desert, exotic, eye, green, iguana, lizard, native, natural, nature, oasis, reptilia, reptilian, saurian, scale, scaly, skin, southwest, spiny, spring, striped, summer, terrestrial, vertebrate, wild, wildlife, reptile, lizard
- Contained in galleries
- Spiny Desert Lizards and Their Allies (Phrynosomatidae)
