Texas Horned
Lizard TxHrndLzrd
THL
Phrynosoma
cornutum
One of 13 North
American
species
Aka ...
Horned toad
Horny toad
Horned frog
Horns ...
modified
spiney scales
Texas State Reptile
Texas State
License Plate
Texas Christian
University (TCU)
Mascot
About 70% of diet
is made up of
harvester ants
Texas
Status ...
Threatened
Can squirt a
stream of blood
from the corners
of the eyes up to 5
feet
Texas legislature
declared Kenedy
to be the Texas
Horned Lizard
Capital of the
World
pair of long
hornlike
spines on
the top of
the head
has two rows
of light
colored fringy
spines on the
side of its
body
colored in
shades of
brown,
yellowish,
reddish,
greyish tan,  
sometimes
mostly greys
back marked
with dark spots
Single pair of
occipital
spines
Two rows of
lateral
abdominal
fringe scales
Enlarged
modified
dorsal scales
with 4 distinct
keels
Single row
of
enlarged
gular
scales
Keeled
non-mucronate
ventral scales
Postrictal
scale absent
White
middorsal
stripe
Dark lines
radiate from
eye
dark spots
have light
rear
margins
         
         
Counter
Prototype ... Under Construction
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