The reptile book; a comprehensive popularised work on the structure and habits of the turtles, tortoises, crocodilians, lizards and snakes which inhabit the United States and northern Mexico . IGUANA, Cydura carin,it,i\ UVst Indian species, closely allied to the Iguanas that inhabit the extreme southwestern portion of the United State. hi — KHANA, DipstisaiirutTraces of a dor imw the relationship of this lizard to the larger Iguanas ni the tropics. It is mostly herbivorous CHAPTER XIV: THE GENERA SAUROMALUSAND CROTAPHYTUS Fine-scaled Representatives of the Iguanidce The Chuckawallas—Genus
The reptile book; a comprehensive popularised work on the structure and habits of the turtles, tortoises, crocodilians, lizards and snakes which inhabit the United States and northern Mexico . IGUANA, Cydura carin,it,i\ UVst Indian species, closely allied to the Iguanas that inhabit the extreme southwestern portion of the United State. hi — KHANA, DipstisaiirutTraces of a dor imw the relationship of this lizard to the larger Iguanas ni the tropics. It is mostly herbivorous CHAPTER XIV: THE GENERA SAUROMALUSAND CROTAPHYTUS Fine-scaled Representatives of the Iguanidce The Chuckawallas—Genus Sauromalus: Of the two species,one is little known; the other is a desert reptile and fairly com-mon in the southwestern portion of the United States. The Chuckawallas are very stout, with a fine, granularscalation, both above and beneath, and on the top of the head;the scales on the neck are spiny. One of these lizards attainsa considerable size—two feet or more; the tail is short and adult specimens are of a dull, uniform brown. Definition of the Species. Scales of the upper surface of neck much enlarged andspiny. Scales of the back terminating in a sharp a maximum length of about two feet. ISLAND CHUCKAWALLA, Sauromdlus Mspidus, (Stej.) Distribution.—Has been found on Angel Island, Gulf of C
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