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Biker Dave
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Lizard ID Help

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Uta or Common Sagebrush Lizard at Petrified Forest NP. Please state your ID and why.

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Jeff
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Lesser Earless Lizard, Holbrookia maculata (or approximans depending on taxonomic view). Why? Since it wasn't one of the options --
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ThamnElegans24
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Jeff is right. It's an Earless Lizard.
Bob McKeever
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Hey Dave,
I'm with Jeff. Everything about that critter says Lesser Earless Lizard. Body shape, head profile, tail length, pattern, and more. You can see just a hint of one of the dark ventro-lateral spots at the edge of a skin-fold just posterior to the right foreleg also. In this case, the Speckled Earless Lizard (Holbrookia maculate approximans or, as Jeff noted, Holbrookia approximans). Pretty sure.
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How did I miss that!?! Thanks guys!
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