Short-tailed Horned Lizard
- Short-tailed Horned Lizard
Taxobox
name = Short-tailed horned lizard
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Sauropsida
ordo = Squamata
subordo = Iguania
familia = Phrynosomatidae
genus = "Phrynosoma"
species = "P. braconnieri"
binomial = "Phrynosoma braconnieri"
binomial_authority = (Duméril & Bocourt, 1870)
The short-tailed horned lizard ("Phrynosoma braconnieri") is a very rare lizard. It has a very distinct shortened tail, which is sometimes non-apparent. They specific epithet braconnieri is in honor of the French naturalist Saraphin Braconnier.
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