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Greater Short-horned Lizard
Phrynosoma hernandesi Girard, 1858

Current SSAR Comments:
See note on P. ornatissimum for recognizing that taxon as a separate species from P. hernandesi. Leaché et al. (2021, Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution 9: 678110) inferred three main populations within P. hernandesi based on phylogenetic and demographic analyses of RADseq SNP data. Although they did not recognize those populations taxonomically, their analyses indicate that the three populations are incompletely separated lineages that experienced divergence with secondary contact. Those lineages largely correspond to the taxa Montanucci (2015, Zootaxa 4015: 1–177) recognized as P. brevirostris Girard, 1858 ≅ northern population, P. hernandesi ornatum Girard, 1858 ≅ western population, and P. hernandesi hernandesi Girard, 1858 plus P. bauri Montanucci, 2015 plus P. diminutum Montanucci, 2015 ≅ southern population. Hoza et al. (Ichthyology & Herpetology 111: 390–396) provided additional evidence that P. diminutum is not a separate species from P. hernandesi and is part of the southern population of that species.

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First instance(s) of published English names:
Hernandez's Horned Lizard (Phrynosoma hernandezi: Yarrow, Henry C. 1882. Check list of North American Reptilia and Batrachia with catalogue of specimens in U. S. National Museum. Bulletin of the United States National Museum (24):1-249); Hernandez Horned Lizard (Phrynosoma hernandezi: Brown, Arthur, E. 1902. Report of the Board of Directors. Pages 5-22 in Thirtieth Annual Report of the Board of Directors of the Zoological Society of Philadelphia. Allen, Lane, and Scott, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. pp.); Arizona Short-horned Horned Toad (Phrynosoma doublassii hernandesi: 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.); Eastern Short-horned Horned Toad (Phrynosoma doublassii ornatissimum: 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.); Eastern Short-horned Horned Toad (Phrynosoma douglassi brevirostre: Schmidt, Karl P. 1953. A Check List of North American Amphibians and Reptiles. 6th Edition. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, Illinois. 280pp.); Mountain Short-horned Horned Toad (Phrynosoma douglassi hernandesi: Schmidt, Karl P. 1953. A Check List of North American Amphibians and Reptiles. 6th Edition. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, Illinois. 280pp.);

Taxon Links:

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

Pertinent LIterature:
1858 Girard, Charles F. United States Exploring Expedition during the Years 1838, 1839, 1840, 1841, 1842, Under the command of Charles Wilkes, U.S.N. Vol. 20. Herpetology. C. Sherman & Son, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. 492pp.
2021 Leaché, Adam D., Hayden R. Davis, Sonal Singhal, Matthew K. Fujita, Megan E. Lahti and Kelly R. Zamudio Phylogenomic assessment of biodiversity using a reference-based taxonomy: An example with Horned Lizards (Phrynosoma). Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution 9(678110):1-15

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