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Sonoran Horned Lizard
Phrynosoma goodei Stejneger, 1893

Current SSAR 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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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

Pertinent LIterature:
1893 Stejneger, Leonard. 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

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