collared lizard

American  

noun

1. any of several species of long-tailed iguanid lizards of the genus Crotaphytus, of central and western U.S. and northern Mexico, usually having a collar of two black bands.

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Example Sentences

I logged every tiny delight: the collared lizard frozen in its tracks and the emerald lichen clinging to the granite and the sumac and the wildflowers and the water spilling over the dam.

From Washington Post • Dec. 9, 2021

Without a dissenting nay, the assembly decreed that the collared lizard, known as "the mountain boomer" amid the hills of Ouachita and Wichita, will henceforth be designated as the Sooner State's official reptile.

From Time Magazine Archive

The lizards are represented by the horned lizard, the western spotted or earless lizard, the collared lizard, the striped race runner, utas, rock swifts, and sagebrush swifts.

From Mesa Verde National Park, Colorado by United States. Dept. of the Interior

Only two reptiles, a horned lizard and a collared lizard, were seen.

From Comparative Ecology of Pinyon Mice and Deer Mice in Mesa Verde National Park, Colorado by Douglas, Charles L.

Observations on hibernation and nests of the collared lizard, Crotaphytus collaris.

From Natural History of the Ornate Box Turtle, Terrapene ornata ornata Agassiz by Legler, John M.