#1665 · 🦎 reptiles
Texas Horned Lizard
🇳🇱 Texaanse padhagedis ·Phrynosoma cornutum
10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences
- 1. © Yinan Li · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 2. © Yinan Li · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 3. © Deb Whitecotton · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 4. © Yinan Li · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 5. © Yinpeng Zhang · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 6. © Ad Konings · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 7. © RJ Baltierra · CC BY 4.0
- 8. © Deb Whitecotton · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 9. © Yinan Li · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 10. © Andrew DuBois · CC BY-NC 4.0
what is it?
The Texas horned lizard ( Phrynosoma cornutum ) is one of about 14 North American species of spikey-bodied reptiles called horned lizards. P. cornutum ranges from Colorado and Kansas to northern Mexico (in the Sonoran desert), and from southeastern Arizona to Texas. Also, isolated, introduced populations are found in the Carolinas, Georgia, and northern Florida. Texas horned lizards may also be native to Louisiana and Arkansas.
base stats
Bars compare against all animals on log scales: up to 300,000 Dutch and 600,000 worldwide sightings (the most-seen species), 150 t (blue whale), 30 m and 400 years (Greenland shark).
fun facts
- No confirmed wild sightings in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: you'd have to travel for this one.
- 13,547 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Scientifically named by Richard Harlan in 1825 (201 years ago).
fact sheet
- English
- Texas Horned Lizard
- Nederlands
- Texaanse padhagedis
- scientific name
- Phrynosoma cornutum
- class
- Reptilia
- order
- Squamata
- family
- Phrynosomatidae
- IUCN Red List
- LC · least concern
- sightings in NL
- 0
- sightings worldwide
- 13,547
- GBIF records in NL
- 0
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1825 by Richard Harlan
IUCN in Dutch: niet bedreigd. Blank means the sources don't say.
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LC 🌍 41.9k seen
#1628 📷 8Eastern Fence Lizard
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#1640 📷 10Desert Spiny Lizard
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Sources: iNaturalist taxon 73905, Wikidata Q748410, GBIF 5222413, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.