Horned lizards are declining as a whole throughout Texas for a variety of reasons (fire ants, grassy lawns, urban sprawl, non-native predators, etc.) but we're fortunate to still have a holdout for Texas Horned Lizards in Marathon... and occasionally, if you're lucky, this little fellow: the Round-tailed Horned Lizard,
Phrynosoma modestum. I am starting to think that our neighbors, Klem and Tom, have an affinity for rocks - they sent us some lovely images of a
pebble-in-disguise toad lubber earlier this year - and now they've beautifully captured the essence of a remarkably lumpy skipping stone.
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| Round-tailed Horned Lizard (Phrynosoma modestum) photo by Tom Lehr, Marathon/Brewster Co., TX 25 May 2014 |
To learn more about these cryptic neighbors of ours (the lizards, not the humans!) the herps of Texas site covers the basics:
click here for their round-tailed horned lizard species account.
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| Round-tailed Horned Lizard (Phrynosoma modestum) photo by Tom Lehr, Marathon/Brewster Co., TX 25 May 2014 |
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