Eastern Collared Lizard
Crotaphytus collaris
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- C. collaris – Coconino Co, AZ -photo by Ivan Loncaric
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- C. collaris – Coconino Co, AZ – photo by Ivan Loncaric
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- C. collaris – Coconino Co, AZ – photo by Wills Wells
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- C. collaris – Grand Co, UT – photo by German Zapata
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- C. collaris – Northern Arizona – photo by Wills Wells
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- C. collaris – Petrified Forest Nat’l Park, AZ – photo by Bruce McCrea
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- C. collaris – Petrified Forest Nat’l Park, AZ – photo by Wills Wells
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- C. collaris – Rio Arriba Co, NM – photo by Chris Hepner
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- Map by Steve Bledsoe, SWCHR
DISTRIBUTION: In our region, Crotaphytus collaris occurs throughout central and northwestern Texas, then westward throughout much of New Mexico, Arizona, and into southeastern Utah.
LEGAL STATUS: No Listings
MEANING OF SCIENTIFIC NAME: Crotaphytus collaris (Say – 1823)
Genus: Crotaphytus , Greek – krotaphos = side or temple of the head – ref. presence of small polygonal plates on the whole surface of the head
Species: collaris, Latin = collared — Baird and Girard, 1853: “allusion to the very striking feature of bearing a double black sub-crescentic band on the sides of the neck.”
Ref. Ellen Beltz 2006
Ref. E. Jaeger 1962