Bosque del Apache NWR
Southwest Region
"Conserving the Nature of America"
 
gray spiny lizard
Desert Spiny Lizard. Photo credit:: Gary Froelich

References

Information in these interpretive pages was assembled from:

Degenhardt, W.G, Painter, C.W., and Price, A.H., 1996, The Amphibians and Reptiles of New Mexico; University of New Mexico Press, Albuquerque, NM, 431p.

McMahon, J.A., 1988, Deserts; The National Audubon Society Nature Guides, Knopf, Inc., New York, NY, 640p.

Stebbins, R.C., 1985, A Field Guide to Western Reptiles and Amphibians; Peterson Field Guide Series, Houghton Mifflin Co., New York, NY, 278p.

Acknowledgements

Many thanks to Charlie Painter, herpetologist with the New Mexico Department of Game and Fish, for proofing the identification of lizards in these photos.

 

 

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