Clearcuts provide real benefits: abundant sunlight is required to re-establish shade-intolerant Douglas fir forests, and clearcuts mimic natural disturbance such as fire and provide habitat for species like the northern
alligator lizard that requires clearings for foraging and basking.
Sexual dimorphism in the
alligator lizard Gerrhonotus infernalis (Sauria: Anguidae): implications for sexual selection.
These analyses demonstrate dietary overlap with the native Western Fence Lizard, Sceloporus occidentalis, and Southern
Alligator Lizard, Elgaria multicarinata, which also occur in this neighborhood.
In Africa, the lizards commonly found are Geckos, Agama lizard, chameleons, monitor lizard,
Alligator lizard and typical lizard [3].
Infestation of the southern
alligator lizard (Squamata: Anguidae) by Ixodes pacificus (Acari: Ixodidae) and its susceptibility to Borrelia burgdorferi.
It's also home to many rare and endemic animals and plants such as bighorn sheep, the Panamint
alligator lizard, and the Panamint daisy.
Reproduction in the southern
alligator lizard Gerrhonotus multicarinatus.
Miguel has wrangled the foot-long, thrashing
alligator lizard, his hand protected by a wadded T-shirt.
The southern
alligator lizard Gerrhonotus multicarinatus Blainville 1935: its care and breeding in captivity.
The
alligator lizard below is crawling around on top of a flowering bromeliad.
Rosowski at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge and his colleagues recently reported that at frequencies below 800 hertz, sound is conducted across the throat walls of the
alligator lizard and on to its eardrums when the animal's head is raised.
Gerrhonotus infernalis is commonly known as falso escorpion or Texas
alligator lizard; it is distributed in North America from central to western Texas in the United States through Coahuila, entering into Nuevo Leon, Tamaulipas, and north of San Luis Potosi in Mexico (Smith, 1979; Good, 1994).