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Common Chuckwalla - Sauromalus ater
Cachorón de Roca
Duméril, 1856| Species Description and More Pictures |
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| Adult, Coyote Bay, Baja California Sur |
Adult, San Juan de la Costa, Baja California Sur © Mela Garcia | |
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| Adult, Cocos Corner, Baja California © Stuart Young | ||
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| Two adults, Loreto, Baja California Sur © Stuart Young | ||
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| Habitat, Coyote Bay, Baja California Sur |
Habitat, East of La Paz, Baja California Sur © Jackson Shedd | Habitat, San Juan de la Costa, Baja California Sur © Mela Garcia |
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| Habitat, Cocos Corner, Baja California © Stuart Young |
Habitat, Loreto, Baja California Sur © Stuart Young |
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| Short Videos | ||
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| A large old male chuckwalla gets some sun, does some pushups, eats some bushes, then poops. | A Chuckwalla emerges from its crevice and does a territorial push-up display. | From a wide view of its habtat, we zoom in on a Chuckwalla high on top of a rock. |
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| Chuckwallas in the San Diego County, California desert, including one that crawled up into a bush to eat some flowers. | A Riverside County, California chuckwalla runs across a sandy wash into thick vegetation next to a spring and a San Diego County, California chuckwalla displays on top of a large rock outcrop. | |
References:
Grismer, L. Lee. Amphibians and Reptiles of Baja California, Including Its Pacific Islands and the Islands in the Sea of Cortés. The University of California Press, 2002. McPeak, Ron H. Amphibians and Reptiles of Baja California. Sea Challengers, 2000. Samuel M. McGinnis and Robert C. Stebbins. Peterson Field Guide to Western Reptiles & Amphibians. 4th Edition. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company, 2018. Stebbins, Robert C. A Field Guide to Western Reptiles and Amphibians. 3rd Edition. Houghton Mifflin Company, 2003. The Reptile Database San Diego Natural History Museum |
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