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Phrynosoma, whose members are known as the horned lizards, horny toads, or horntoads, is a genus of North American lizards and the type genus of the family Phrynosomatidae. Their common names refer directly to their horns or to their flattened, rounded bodies, and blunt snouts.
Horned lizards also do not survive well in captivity and are not good pets. This article originally appeared on Austin American-Statesman: Dallas Zoo and Caldwell Zoo hatch 90 threatened horned ...
The greater short-horned lizard (Phrynosoma hernandesi), also commonly known as the mountain short-horned lizard or Hernández's short-horned lizard, is a species of lizard in the family Phrynosomatidae. The species is endemic to western North America. Like other horned lizards, it is often called a "horned toad" or "horny toad", but it is not ...
[1] [2] [3] Perhaps because of its wide distribution, Boulenophrys parva is known under many common names, including concave-crowned horned toad, lesser stream horned frog, mountain horned frog, brown horn frog, Burmese spadefoot toad, and small spadefoot toad. [2] It inhabits evergreen broadleaf forests alongside streams. [1]
The pygmy short-horned lizard (Phrynosoma douglasii) is a species of small horned lizard in the family Phrynosomatidae. The species is native to the northwestern United States and adjacent southwestern Canada. Like other horned lizards, it is often called a "horned toad" or "horny toad," but it is not a toad at all.
Xenophrys pachyproctus (Huang, 1981) — convex-vented horned toad; Xenophrys periosa (Mahony, Kamei, Teeling, and Biju, 2018) — giant Himalayan horned frog; Xenophrys robusta (Boulenger, 1908) — robust horned toad; Xenophrys serchhipii Mathew and Sen, 2007 — Serchhip horned toad; Xenophrys takensis (Mahony, 2011) — Tak horned toad
Boulenophrys brachykolos, the short-legged horned toad or Peak spadefoot toad, is a frog native to southern China and Vietnam. [2] It was first discovered in the Victoria Peak (locally known as The Peak), Hong Kong. [3] Many populations of Hong Kong are in the country parks, such as Lung Fu Shan Country Park. [4]
Rhinella ceratophrys, formerly Bufo ceratophrys, is a species of toad in the family Bufonidae. It is sometimes known as the horned toad in English and sapo cornudo in Spanish. It has a wide distribution in the upper Amazon. Its natural habitats are in old and second-growth lowland tropical rainforests.