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Reptilia
Squamata (part)
Phrynosomatidae
Round-tailed Horned Lizard
Phrynosoma modestum
Girard in Baird and Girard, 1852
Current SSAR Comments:
Author citation updated from Girard, 1852.
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First instance(s) of published English names:
Little Horned Lizard
(
Phrynosoma modestum
: 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);
Least Horned Lizard
(
Phrynosoma modestum
: 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.);
Round-tailed Horned Toad
(
Phrynosoma modestum
: 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.);
Bleached Horned Lizard
(
Phrynosoma modestum
: 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:
1852
Baird, Spencer F. and Charles Girard. Characteristics of some new reptiles in the Museum of the Smithsonian Institution. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia 6():68-70
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