Striped Plateau Lizard - Chiricahua Mountains, AZ
Date and precise location unknown.
Per the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species:
This is a montane species that is most abundant in mixed pine and oak woods (e.g., wooded canyons and ravines), but it ranges upward into pine forest and downward in oak woodland along streams (Degenhardt et al. 1996, Stebbins 2003); typically it is found on the ground among rocks, logs, leaf litter, and scattered grasses, or near sandy, rocky intermittent streams, but it readily climbs (Degenhardt et al. 1996, Stebbins 2003). In southeastern Arizona, individuals generally perch on rocks, rarely on trees (Smith 1996).
In the USA, occurs only in extreme se AZ and sw NM, including the Chiricahua, Peloncillo, Guadalupe, and Animas mountains
Striped Plateau Lizard - Chiricahua Mountains, AZ
Date and precise location unknown.
Per the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species:
This is a montane species that is most abundant in mixed pine and oak woods (e.g., wooded canyons and ravines), but it ranges upward into pine forest and downward in oak woodland along streams (Degenhardt et al. 1996, Stebbins 2003); typically it is found on the ground among rocks, logs, leaf litter, and scattered grasses, or near sandy, rocky intermittent streams, but it readily climbs (Degenhardt et al. 1996, Stebbins 2003). In southeastern Arizona, individuals generally perch on rocks, rarely on trees (Smith 1996).
In the USA, occurs only in extreme se AZ and sw NM, including the Chiricahua, Peloncillo, Guadalupe, and Animas mountains