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Texas lizards : a field guide /
<P>"Texas offers the opportunity to observe lizard diversity like no other part of the country," writes Laurie J. Vitt in the foreword to <i>Texas Lizards</i>. From the moist eastern Piney Woods to the western deserts, lizards can be found in every part of Texas. The stat...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Austin :
University of Texas Press,
2015.
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| Edición: | First edition. |
| Colección: | Texas natural history guides.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Foreword
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- What Is a Lizard?
- Natural History
- Activity and Seasonality
- Reproduction
- Behavior
- Conservation
- Texas Biogeography and Landforms
- Habitat Loss
- Pollution
- Climate Change
- Introduced Species
- Observing and Collecting Lizards
- Observing Lizards
- Photographing Lizards
- Collecting Lizards
- Legal Aspects of Collecting Lizards
- Permits and Collecting Lizards in Texas
- Threatened, Endangered, or Protected Nongame Species
- Maintenance of Lizards
- Maintaining Lizards in CaptivityCreating Lizard Habitat
- Handling Lizards
- Museum and Preserved Lizard Specimens
- Scientific and Common Names
- Dichotomous Key to Texas Lizards
- Dichotomous Keys
- Key to Texas Lizards
- Systematic Accounts
- Order Squamata, Suborder Iguania
- Family Crotaphytidae
- Eastern Collared Lizard (Crotaphytus collaris)
- Reticulate Collared Lizard (Crotaphytus reticulatus)
- Long-nosed Leopard Lizard (Gambelia wislizenii)
- Family Iguanidae
- Mexican Spiny-tailed Iguana (Ctenosaura pectinata)
- Family PhrynosomatidaeGreater Earless Lizard (Cophosaurus texanus)
- Spot-tailed Earless Lizard (Holbrookia lacerata)
- Lesser Earless Lizard (Holbrookia maculata)
- Keeled Earless Lizard (Holbrookia propinqua)
- Texas Horned LizardPhrynosoma cornutum
- Greater Short-horned Lizard (Phrynosoma hernandesi)
- Round-tailed Horned Lizard (Phrynosoma modestum)
- Common Side-blotched Lizard (Uta stansburiana)
- Ornate Tree Lizard (Urosaurus ornatus)
- Rose-bellied Lizard (Sceloporus variabilis)
- Canyon Lizard (Sceloporus merriami)
- Mesquite Lizard (Sceloporus grammicus)Dunes Sagebrush Lizard (Sceloporus arenicolus)
- Eastern Fence Lizard complex (Sceloporus undulatus complex)
- Texas Spiny Lizard (Sceloporus olivaceus)
- Desert Spiny Lizard (Sceloporus magister)
- Blue Spiny Lizard (Sceloporus cyanogenys)
- Crevice Spiny LizardSceloporus poinsetti
- Family Polychrotidae
- Green Anole (Anolis carolinensis)
- Brown Anole (Anolis sagrei)
- Order Squamata, Suborder Scleroglossa
- Infraorder Gekkota
- Family Eublepharidae
- Texas Banded Gecko (Coleonyx brevis)
- Reticulated Gecko (Coleonyx reticulatus)Family Gekkonidae
- Rough-tailed Gecko (Cyrtopodion scabrum)
- Common House Gecko (Hemidactylus frenatus)
- Indo-Pacifi c House Gecko (Hemidactylus garnoti)
- Mediterranean Gecko (Hemidactylus turcicus)
- Infraorder Scincomorpha
- Family Scincidae
- Coal Skink (Plestiodon anthracinus)
- Prairie Skink (Plestiodon septentrionalis)
- Four-lined Skink (Plestiodon tetragrammus)
- Five-lined Skink (Plestiodon fasciatus)
- Broad-headed Skink (Plestiodon laticeps)
- Many-lined Skink (Plestiodon multivirgatus)