fringe-toed lizard


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Noun1.fringe-toed lizard - with long pointed scales around toesfringe-toed lizard - with long pointed scales around toes; of deserts of United States and Mexico
iguanid, iguanid lizard - lizards of the New World and Madagascar and some Pacific islands; typically having a long tail and bright throat patch in males
genus Uma, Uma - fringe-toed lizard
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Schmidt's fringe-toed lizard and a Cheesman's gerbil -- they were captured, photographed and released into an appropriate environment.
Diet of the Mexican fringe-toed lizard (Uma exsul).
A population of Bosk's fringe-toed lizard Acanthodactylus boskianus (Daudin, 1802) in the Hajar Mountain foothills of the UAE.
Seasonal Dietary Patterns of the Mexican Fringe-toed Lizard (Cma paraphygas).
In the drier and hotter sand dunes in the northwest portion of the Sonoran Desert, another fringe-toed lizard, Uma inornata, was never observed with mite infestations (Barrows, pers.
In California's Coachella Valley east of San Bernardino, the endangered fringe-toed lizard, which "swims" through sand dunes, began in the 1980s to block the construction of housing, hotels and golf courses.
Maintaining the sand source is crucial to the Coachella Valley fringe-toed lizard (Uma inornata) and other endemic species.