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The North America
North America

North America is the northern continent of the Americas, situated in the Earth's northern hemisphere and almost totally in the western hemisphere....
n genus Urosaurus (the Tree and Brush Lizards) belongs to the New World
New World

The New World is one of the names used for the non-Eurasian/non-African parts of the Earth, specifically the Americas and Australasia. When the term originated in the late 15th century, the Americas were new to the Europeans, who previously thought of the world as consisting only of Europe, Asia, and Africa ....
 Iguanian family Phrynosomatidae
Phrynosomatidae

Phrynosomatidae is a diverse family of lizards, found from Panama to the extreme south of Canada. Many members of the group are adapted to life in hot, sandy deserts, although the spiny lizards prefer rocky deserts or even relatively moist forest edges, and the short-horned lizard lives in prairie or sagebrush environments....
. They can be distinguished from members of the genus Sceloporus by the presence of a gular (under neck) fold and granular lateral scales. They can be distinguished from members of the genus Uta
Side-blotched lizard

Side-blotched lizards are lizards of the genus Uta. They are some of the most abundant and commonly observed lizards in the deserts of western North America....
 by the presence of enlarged (sometimes only slightly) dorsal scales. It has been used as a model system in lizard life-history studies and populations produce two or more clutches of eggs per year (Michel 1976, Ballinger 1984).






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The North America
North America

North America is the northern continent of the Americas, situated in the Earth's northern hemisphere and almost totally in the western hemisphere....
n genus Urosaurus (the Tree and Brush Lizards) belongs to the New World
New World

The New World is one of the names used for the non-Eurasian/non-African parts of the Earth, specifically the Americas and Australasia. When the term originated in the late 15th century, the Americas were new to the Europeans, who previously thought of the world as consisting only of Europe, Asia, and Africa ....
 Iguanian family Phrynosomatidae
Phrynosomatidae

Phrynosomatidae is a diverse family of lizards, found from Panama to the extreme south of Canada. Many members of the group are adapted to life in hot, sandy deserts, although the spiny lizards prefer rocky deserts or even relatively moist forest edges, and the short-horned lizard lives in prairie or sagebrush environments....
. They can be distinguished from members of the genus Sceloporus by the presence of a gular (under neck) fold and granular lateral scales. They can be distinguished from members of the genus Uta
Side-blotched lizard

Side-blotched lizards are lizards of the genus Uta. They are some of the most abundant and commonly observed lizards in the deserts of western North America....
 by the presence of enlarged (sometimes only slightly) dorsal scales. It has been used as a model system in lizard life-history studies and populations produce two or more clutches of eggs per year (Michel 1976, Ballinger 1984). Field studies have also shown a cost of reproduction in a natural New Mexico population of the species Urosaurus ornatus
Urosaurus ornatus

The Tree lizard is a species of lizard native to the southwestern United States, and northern Mexico. The species has been used to research the physiological changes in the body during the fight-or-flight response as related to stress and aggressive competition PMID 9145930....
 (Landwer, 1994).

Species

  • Urosaurus auriculatus
  • Urosaurus bicarinatus
  • Urosaurus clarionensis
  • Urosaurus gadovi
  • Urosaurus graciosus
    Urosaurus graciosus

    The long-tailed brush lizard, Urosaurus graciosus, occurs in the Mojave Desert and northwestern Sonoran Desert Deserts in the states of California, Arizona, Nevada, Sonora, and Baja California....
  • Urosaurus irregularis
  • Urosaurus lahtelai
  • Urosaurus nigricaudus
  • Urosaurus ornatus
    Urosaurus ornatus

    The Tree lizard is a species of lizard native to the southwestern United States, and northern Mexico. The species has been used to research the physiological changes in the body during the fight-or-flight response as related to stress and aggressive competition PMID 9145930....