Texas lizards: a field guide

Foreword (Laurie J. Vitt)     Acknowledgments     Introduction      What Is a Lizard?      Natural History       Activity and Seasonality       Reproduction       Behavior      Conservation       Texas Biogeography and Landforms       Habitat Loss       Pollution       Climate Change       Introduced Species       Collecting and Trade as a Cause of Decline      Observing and Collecting Lizards       Observing Lizards       Photographing Lizards       Collecting Lizards       Legal Aspects of Collecting Lizards       Permits and Collecting Lizards in Texas       Threatened, Endangered, or Protected Nongame Species      Maintenance of Lizards       Maintaining Lizards in Captivity       Creating Lizard Habitat       Handling Lizards      Museum and Preserved Lizard Specimens      Scientific and Common Names     Dichotomous Key to Texas Lizards      Dichotomous Keys      Key to Texas Lizards     Systematic Accounts      Order Squamata, Suborder Iguania       Family Crotaphytidae        Eastern Collared Lizard (Crotaphytus collaris)        Reticulate Collared Lizard (Crotaphytus reticulatus)        Long-nosed Leopard Lizard (Gambelia wislizenii)       Family Iguanidae        Mexican Spiny-tailed Iguana (Ctenosaura pectinata)
 introduced species       Family Phrynosomatidae        Greater Earless Lizard (Cophosaurus texanus)        Spot-tailed Earless Lizard (Holbrookia lacerata)        Lesser Earless Lizard (Holbrookia maculata)        Keeled Earless Lizard (Holbrookia propinqua)        Texas Horned Lizard (Phrynosoma cornutum)        Greater Short-horned Lizard (Phrynosoma hernandesi)        Round-tailed Horned Lizard (Phrynosoma modestum)        Common Side-blotched Lizard (Uta stansburiana)        Ornate Tree Lizard (Urosaurus ornatus)        Rose-bellied Lizard (Sceloporus variabilis)        Canyon Lizard (Sceloporus merriami)        Mesquite Lizard (Sceloporus grammicus)        Dunes Sagebrush Lizard (Sceloporus arenicolus)        Eastern Fence Lizard Complex (Sceloporus undulatus complex)        Texas Spiny Lizard (Sceloporus olivaceus)        Desert Spiny Lizard (Sceloporus magister)        Blue Spiny Lizard (Sceloporus cyanogenys)        Crevice Spiny Lizard (Sceloporus poinsetti)       Family Polychrotidae        Green Anole (Anolis carolinensis)        Brown Anole (Anolis sagrei)
 introduced species      Order Squamata, Suborder Scleroglossa       Infraorder Gekkota       Family Eublepharidae        Texas Banded Gecko (Coleonyx brevis)        Reticulated Gecko (Coleonyx reticulatus)       Family Gekkonidae        Rough-tailed Gecko (Cyrtopodion scabrum)
 introduced species        Common House Gecko (Hemidactylus frenatus)
 introduced species        Indo-Pacific House Gecko (Hemidactylus garnoti)
 introduced, unisexual species        Mediterranean Gecko (Hemidactylus turcicus)
 introduced species       Infraorder Scincomorpha       Family Scincidae        Coal Skink (Plestiodon anthracinus)        Prairie Skink (Plestiodon septentrionalis)        Four-lined Skink (Plestiodon tetragrammus)        Five-lined Skink (Plestiodon fasciatus)        Broad-headed Skink (Plestiodon laticeps)        Many-lined Skink (Plestiodon multivirgatus)        Great Plains Skink (Plestiodon obsoletus)        Ground Skink (Scincella lateralis)       Family Teiidae        Texas Spotted Whiptail (Aspidoscelis gularis)        Rusty-rumped Whiptail (Aspidoscelis septemvittata)        Little Striped Whiptail (Aspidoscelis     inornata)        Marbled Whiptail (Aspidoscelis marmorata)        Six-lined Racerunner (Aspidoscelis sexlineata)        Gray Checkered Whiptail (Aspidoscelis dixoni)
 unisexual species        Common Checkered Whiptail (Aspidoscelis tesselata)
 unisexual species        Chihuahuan Spotted Whiptail (Aspidoscelis exsanguis)
 unisexual species        New Mexico Whiptail (Aspidoscelis neomexicana)
 unisexual species        Desert Grassland Whiptail (Aspidoscelis uniparens)
 unisexual species        Laredo Striped Whiptail (Aspidoscelis laredoensis)
 unisexual species       Infraorder Diploglossa       Family Anguidae        Texas Alligator Lizard (Gerrhonotus infernalis)        Slender Glass Lizard (Ophisaurus attenuatus)     Appendix A: Species with Texas Records of Questionable Origin     Appendix B: Nonestablished Exotic Species     Appendix C: Lizard Informational Resources     Appendix D: Map of Texas Counties     Glossary     Bibliography     Index of Common Names     Index of Scientific Names