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Sonoran Horned Lizard
Phrynosoma goodei Stejneger, 1893

SSAR 9th Edition Comments:
 Farleigh et al. (2021, Molecular Ecology 30: 4481–4496) presented evidence from phylogeographic analyses of nuclear SNP data that P. goodei, previously recognized based on mtDNA phylogeny (Mulcahy et al., 2006, Molecular Ecology 15: 1807–1826), is part of one of three genetic clusters within P. platyrhinos, although they did not propose taxonomic unification. Following Mulcahy et al. (op. cit.) and Sherbrooke (2020, Phrynosomatics 25: 1, 3–12), we have changed the standard English name of this species from “Goode’s Horned Lizard” used in the previous version of this list.

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Province/State Distribution:
USA: Arizona

First instance(s) of published English names:
Sonoran Horned Toad (Phrynosoma goodei: Van Denburgh, John. 1922. The Reptiles of Western North America: An Account of the Species Known to Inhabit California and Oregon, Washinton, Idaho, Utah, Nevada, Arizona, British Columbia, Sonora, and Lower California. Volume I. Lizards. California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco. 556pp.);

Taxon Links:

  
Catalog of American Amphibians and Reptiles
  
The Reptile Database
  
NatureServe
  
iNaturalist
  
GenBank
  
USGS - Nonindigenous Aquatic Species Database

Selected References:
1893 Stejneger, Leonhard H. Annotated list of the reptiles and batrachians collected by the Death Valley Expedition in 1891, with descriptions of new species. North American Fauna 7:159–228
1935 Klauber, Laurence M. The status of the Sonoran horned toad, Phrynosoma goodei Stejneger. Copeia 1935(4):178-179
1963 Lynn, R. T. Comparative behavior of the horned lizards, genus Phrynosoma, of the United States. Dissertation. University of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma. 76pp.
1965 Lynn, R. T. A comparative study of the display behavior in Phrynosoma (Iguanidae). Southwestern Naturalist 10(1):25-30
1987 Montanucci, Richard R. A phylogenetic study of the horned lizards, genus Phrynosoma, based on skeletal and external morphology. Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, Contributions in Science (390):1-36
1993 Wiens, John J. Phylogenetic relationships of phrynosomatid lizards and monophyly of the Sceloporus group. Copeia 1993(2):287-299
1996 Montanucci, Richard R. Morphological variation in the gular fold in the horned lizard genus Phrynosoma (Iguania: Phrynosomatidae). Herpetologica 52(1):46-55
2001 Reeder, Tod W., and Richard R. Montanucci. Phylogenetic analysis of the horned lizards (Phrynosomatidae: Phrynosoma): Evidence from mitochondrial DNA and morphology. Copeia 2001(2):309-323
2004 Hodges, Wendy L. Evolution of viviparity in horned lizards (Phrynosoma): Testing the cold-climate hypothesis. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 17:1230–1237
2017 Bezy, Robert L., Philip C. Rosen, Thomas R. Van Devender, and Erik F. Enderson. Southern distributional limits of the Sonoran Desert herpetofauna along the mainland coast of northwestern Mexico Mesoamerican Herpetology 4(1):138-167

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