Species: Uta stansburiana
Encyclopedia of Puget Sound
Side-blotched lizards are variable in color and pattern, being spotted, blotched, or unpatterned, depending on location. The scales along the middle of the back are of uniform size. Each side of chest has a dark blotch (a large blue-black streak is present in some males). The throat of adults is blue, with an orange rim in some regions (colors less intense in late summer). At least one scale on top of the head behind the eyes is obviously larger than the scales along the middle of the back. Maximum snout-vent length is about 2.5 inches (6.3 cm); average size of adults increases from north to south across the range. Mature males have two hemipenial swellings on the underside of the tail base and a pair of enlarged scales behind the vent on the underside of the tail. Source: Hammerson (1999).
Classification
Reptilia
Squamata
Phrynosomatidae
Uta
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Classification
Ecology and Life History
Side-blotched lizards are variable in color and pattern, being spotted, blotched, or unpatterned, depending on location. The scales along the middle of the back are of uniform size. Each side of chest has a dark blotch (a large blue-black streak is present in some males). The throat of adults is blue, with an orange rim in some regions (colors less intense in late summer). At least one scale on top of the head behind the eyes is obviously larger than the scales along the middle of the back. Maximum snout-vent length is about 2.5 inches (6.3 cm); average size of adults increases from north to south across the range. Mature males have two hemipenial swellings on the underside of the tail base and a pair of enlarged scales behind the vent on the underside of the tail. Source: Hammerson (1999).
Conservation Status
LC - Least concern