#1675 · 🦎 reptiles

Greater Short-horned Lizard

Phrynosoma hernandesi

LCleast concern 🦎 Reptiles 📍 outside Europe

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what is it?

The greater short-horned lizard ( Phrynosoma hernandesi ), also commonly known as the mountain short-horned lizard , is a species of lizard endemic to western North America. Like other horned lizards, it is often wrongly called a "horned toad" or "horny toad", but it is not a toad at all. It is a reptile, not an amphibian. It is one of seven native species of lizards in Canada.

base stats

NL sightings 0iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 12,765iNaturalist observations
threat LCleast concern

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.
12,765 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
Scientifically named by Charles Frédéric Girard in 1858 (168 years ago).