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Brigham Young University

Theses and Dissertations

1976

Lizards; Anatomy; Skeleton; Muscles

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The Osteology And Myology Of The Head And Neck Region Of Callisaurus, Cophosaurus, Holbrookia, And Uma, The "Sand Lizards", Douglas Charles Cox Dec 1976

The Osteology And Myology Of The Head And Neck Region Of Callisaurus, Cophosaurus, Holbrookia, And Uma, The "Sand Lizards", Douglas Charles Cox

Theses and Dissertations

Blainville (1835) wrote the first description of a sand lizard and named it Callisaurus draconoides. Since his time various authors have published articles concerning sand lizards. Girard (1851) described Holbrookia maculata, Trochel (1852) described Cophosaurus texanus, and that same year Baird and Girard synonymized Cophosaurus with Holbrookia providing the name Holbrookia texana, which has stood for over 100 years. Subsequently, Baird (1858) described Uma notata.