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The trip I had planned for Arizona and New Mexico this year was reduced to a week in southeast AZ due to a new job and some other things. I had hoped to find and photo P. cornutum, P. modestum, P. solare and both montane and desert versions of P. hernandesi.

Here are the Phrynosoma that I was afforded the pleasure of finding and photographing this year:

P. blainvillii:

Adult female

Adult male

Another locality:

Adult male

Large adult male.

An adult female

Another adult female

Juvie

This copulating pair was the find of the year for me. I had wanted to see this in nature for a very long time. This species, along with P. asio and P. douglasii, are currently the only Phrynosoma reported to mate in the missionary position.

P. cornutum from Hidalgo Co, NM (only part of NM we made it to):

Adult male

Defensive display

Adult female found by my wife

Female (left) and male (right)

P. hernandesi:

Sage scrub habitat:

Juniper-sage habitat:

Adult male, White Pine Co., NV

Reddish juv female, Elko Co., NV

Juvie male from same locality as above

Juvie from White Pine Co.

Sub-adult male from same locality as above

Large adult female from another White Pine Co. locality

P. modestum:

Habitat, Cochise Co., AZ

Adult male

And lastly, some P. platyrhinos variation…

First some P. platyrhinos habitat in Nevada:

Great Basin habitat

Clark Co., NV:

Clark Co., NV

Clark Co., NV

These were hatchlings from fall 2008 found in March this year:

Pinkish individual, Great Basin locality

A juvie from the same locality a month or so later.

First adult of year (male), Clark Co.

Adult male from Great Basin

Large female from Great Basin (same locality)

Male and female pair

Dingy sub-adult male from same locality

Pink juvie female from same locality

Male from Clark Co.

Same male on cryptic substrate

Sub-adult male from central NV

Adult female from Great Basin

Adult male from Clark Co.

Adult male in situ

Up close

Dark adult male, Clark Co.

Adult female, Clark Co.

Adult male from Clark Co.

Adult male from Clark Co., freckled look

Another male from down the road, more pale

Very cool orange-gray patterned adult male from Clark Co.

Large adult male from Clark Co.

Adult male from reddish soil, Clark Co.

And a parting shot of Spring Valley, NV with the Snake Range in the distance where P. hernandesi occurs.

JS