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Taxonomy of the genus Cophosaurus Biodiversity of the family Phrynosomatidae

Bibliography of the genus Cophosaurus (Greater Earless Lizard)

(Reptilia: Sauria: Phrynosomatidae)

Note: In order to limit redundancy, relevant literature indexed in the related bibliographies in the left column may not have been included in this page. For a comprehensive search of literature, these bibliographies should therefore also be consulted.


Cophosaurus texanus

Ballinger, R.E.; Tyler, E.D.; Tinkle, D.W. 1972. Reproductive ecology of a west Texas population of the greater earless lizard, Cophosaurus texanus. American Midland Naturalist 88(2): 419-428.

Barbault, R. 1977. Étude comparative des cycles journaliers d'activité des lézards Cophosaurus texanus, Cnemidophorus scalaris, Cnemidophorus tigris dans le désert de Mapimi (Mexique). Bulletin de la Société Zoologique de France 102(2): 159-168.

Barbault, R. 1980. L'analyse de l'organisation des peuplements, etape capitale dans l'etude des ecosystemes. Acta Oecologica Oecologia Generalis 1(3): 237-247.

Bashey, F.; Dunham, A.E. 1997. Elevational variation in the thermal constraints on and microhabitat preferences of the greater earless lizard Cophosaurus texanus. Copeia 1997(4): 725-737.

Bezy, R.L. 2011. Greater Earless Lizard, Cophosaurus texanus Troschel, 1852. Sonoran Herpetologist 24(5): 42-46.

Bulova, S.J. 1994. Ecological correlates of population and individual variation in antipredator behavior of two species of desert lizards. Copeia 1994(4): 980-992.

Cagle, F.R. 1950. Notes on Holbrookia texana in Texas. Copeia 1950: 230.

Castaneda, G.; Garcia-de la Pena, C.; Lazcano, D.; Banda-Leal, J. 2005. Natural history notes: Cophosaurus texanus (Greater Earless Lizard). Saurophagy. Herpetological Review 36(2): 174.

Chávez-Cisneros, J.A.; Lazcano, D.; Salinas Camarena, M.A. 2010. Natural history notes: Cophosaurus texanus (Greater Earless Lizard). Mortality. Herpetological Review 41(1): 75.

Chrapliwy, P.S.; Fugler, C.M. 1955. Amphibians and reptiles collected in Mexico in the summer of 1953. Herpetologica 11: 121-128.

Clarke, R.F. 1965. An ethological study of the iguanid lizard genera Callisaurus, Cophosaurus and Holbrookia. Emporia State Research Studies 13: 7-66.

Conant, R. 1983. Commentary on a frog and lizard newly recorded from central Durango, Mexico. pp. 399-405. In: Rhodin, A.G.J. & Miyata, K. (eds.). Advances in herpetology and evolutionary biology. Essays in honor of Ernest E. Williams. Museum of Comparative Zoology, Cambridge, Massachusetts. 725 pp.

Cooper, W.E.; Vitt, L.J.; Caldwell, J.P. 1994. Movement and substrate tongue flicks in phrynosomatid lizards. Copeia 1994(1): 234-237.

Cox, D.C.; Tanner, W.W. 1977. Osteology and myology of the head and neck regions of Callisaurus, Cophosaurus, Holbrookia and Uma (Reptilia: Iguanidae). Great Basin Naturalist 37(1): 35-56.

Creusere, F.M.; Whitford, W.G. 1977. Variation of diel activity of a Chihuahuan desert lizard community. Herpetological Review 8(3)(Suppl.): 5.

Degenhardt, W.G. 1977. A changing environment: documentation of lizards and plants over a decade. pp. 533-555. In: Wauer, R.H. & Riskind, D.H. (eds.). Transactions of the symposium on the biological resources of the Chihuahua Desert region, United States and Mexico: Sul Ross State University, Alpine, Texas, 17-18 October 1974. National Park Service, Washington, D.C. 658 pp.

Dial, B.E. 1986. Tail display in two species of iguanid lizards: a test of the 'predator signal' hypothesis. American Naturalist 127(1): 103-111.

Durtsche, R.D.; Gier, P.J.; Fuller, M.M.; Lutterschmidt, W.I.; Bradley, R.; Meier, C.K.; Hardy, S.C. 1997. Ontogenetic variation in the autecology of the greater earless lizard Cophosaurus texanus. Ecography 20(4): 336-346.

Etheridge, R.E. 1960. Additional notes on the lizards of the Cragin Quarry fauna. Papers of the Michigan Academy of Science, Arts and Letters 45: 113-117.

Evans, L.T. 1951. Territory and display in the lizard, Holbrookia texana. Anatomical Record 111: 532.

Giermakowski, J.T.; Chour, J. 2012. Geographic distribution: Cophosaurus texanus (Greater Earless Lizard). USA: New Mexico: Cibola Co. Herpetological Review 43(4): 618.

Goldberg, S.R. 2013. Notes on reproduction of Greater Earless Lizards, Cophosaurus texanus (Squamata: Phrynosomatidae), from New Mexico. Bulletin of the Chicago Herpetological Society 48(3): 39-42.

Hammerson, G.A.; Santos-Barrera, G. 2007. Cophosaurus texanus. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2007: e.T64062A12733140. http://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2007.RLTS.T64062A12733140.en.

Howland, J.M. 1992. Life history of Cophosaurus texanus (Sauria: Iguanidae): environmental correlates and interpopulational variation. Copeia 1992(1): 82-93.

Johnson, C. 1960. Reproductive cycle in females of the greater earless lizard, Holbrookia texana. Copeia 1960: 297-300.

Kasson, R.N.; Ross, M.K. 2001. Natural history notes: Cophosaurus texanus (Greater Earless Lizard). Diet and behavior. Herpetological Review 32(1): 40.

Klein, T. 1951. A new method of collecting Holbrookia texana. Herpetologica 7: 200.

Liner, E.A. 1966. Notes on four small herpetological collections from Mexico. III. Lizards. Southwestern Naturalist 11: 406-414.

Mata-Silva, V.; Johnson, J.D.; Juarez-Reina, A. 2006. Natural history notes: Cophosaurus texanus (Greater Earless Lizard). Mortality. Herpetological Review 37(4): 464.

Mata-Silva, V.; Johnson, J.D.; Rocha, A. 2011. Natural history notes: Crotalus lepidus (Rock Rattlesnake). Feeding behavior. Herpetological Review 42(3): 439.

Mata-Silva, V.; Rocha, A.; Gandara, A.; Johnson, J.D. 2010. Natural history notes: Cophosaurus texanus (Greater Earless Lizard). Multiple tails. Herpetological Review 41(3): 352-353.

Maury, M.E. 1981. Food partition of lizard communities at the Bolson de Mapimi (Mexico). Publicaciones Instituto de Ecologia Mexico 8: 119-142.

Maury, M.E. 1981. Variability of activity cycles in some species of lizards in the Bolson de Mapimi (Chihuahuan Desert, Mexico). Publicaciones Instituto de Ecologia Mexico 8: 101-118.

Maury, M.E. 1995. Diet composition of the greater earless lizard (Cophosaurus texanus) in central Chihuahuan Desert. Journal of Herpetology 29(2): 266-272.

Maury, M.E. 1999. Ecologia reproductiva de Cophosaurus texanus (Sauria: Phrynosomatidae) en el desierto chihuahuense, Mexico. Acta Zoologica Mexicana Nueva Serie 76: 35-48.

Menke, S.B. 2003. Lizard community structure across a grassland: Creosote bush ecotone in the Chihuahuan Desert. Canadian Journal of Zoology 81(11): 1829-1838.

Meyers, J.J.; Irschick, D.J. 2015. Does whole-organism performance constrain resource use? A community test with desert lizards. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 115(4): 859-868.

Nevárez-de los Reyes, M.; Contreras-Arquieta, S.; Lazcano, D. 2015. Natural history notes: Cophosaurus texanus (Greater Earless Lizard). Aquatic escape behavior. Herpetological Review 46(1): 89.

Nouira, S.; Maury, M.E.; Castanet, J.; Barbault, R. 1982. Determination squelettochronologique de l'age dans une population de Cophosaurus texanus (Sauria, Iguanidae). Amphibia-Reptilia 3(2-3): 213-219.

Peters, J.A. 1951. Studies on the lizard Holbrookia texana (Troschel) with descriptions of two new subspecies. Occasional Papers of the Museum of Zoology University of Michigan 537: 1-20.

Price, A.H. 1987. The ecology and evolutionary implications of competition and parthenogenesis in Cnemidophorus. Dissertation Abstracts International B Sciences and Engineering 47(10): 4035.

Punzo, F. 1982. Tail autotomy and running speed in the lizards Cophosaurus texanus and Uma notata. Journal of Herpetology 16(3): 329-331.

Punzo, F. 2000. Reproduction, growth, survivorship and activity patterns in the southwestern Earless Lizard (Cophosaurus texanus scitulus) (Phrynosomatidae) from the Big Bend region of Texas. Texas Journal of Science 52(3): 179-194.

Punzo, F. 2007. Life history, demography, diet and habitat associations in the southwestern Earless Lizard, Cophosaurus texanus scitulus from northern and southern limits of its geographical range. Amphibia-Reptilia 28(1): 65-76.

Ramsey, L.W. 1948. Hibernation of Holbrookia texana. Herpetologica 4(6): 223.

Ramsey, L.W. 1949. Hibernation, and the effect of a flood on Holbrookia texana. Herpetologica 5(6): 125-126.

Sabath, M.D.; Worthington, R. 1959. Eggs and young of certain Texas reptiles. Herpetologica 15: 31-32.

Schrank, G.D.; Ballinger, R.E. 1973. Male reproductive cycles in two species of lizards (Cophosaurus texanus and Cnemidophorus gularis). Herpetologica 29(3): 289-293.

Schumacher, R. 1992. Pflege und Zucht des Grossen Taubleguans, Cophosaurus (=Holbrookia) texana. Iguana Rundschreiben 1992(2): 18-20.

Smith, D.D.; Medica, P.A.; Sanborn, S.R. 1987. Ecological comparison of sympatric populations of sand lizards (Cophosaurus texanus and Callisaurus draconoides). Great Basin Naturalist 47(2): 175-185.

Smith, P.W.; Burger, W.L. 1950. Herpetological results of the University of Illinois Field Expedition, Spring 1949. III. Sauria. Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Sciences 53: 165-175.

Sugg, D.W.; Fitzgerald, L.A.; Snell, H.L. 1995. Growth rate, timing of reproduction, and size dimorphism in the southwestern earless lizard (Cophosaurus texanus scitulus). Southwestern Naturalist 40(2): 193-202.

Suson, B. 2013. Natural history notes: Crotalus atrox (Western Diamondback Rattlesnake). Diet and feeding behavior. Herpetological Review 44(3): 519.

Thomas, E. 1966. Review of: Troschel F.H. Cophosaurus texanus, neue Eidechsengattung aus Texas. Salamandra 2: 56.

Troschel, F.H. 1852. Cophosaurus texanus, neue Eidechsengattung aus Texas. Archiv für Naturgeschichte (Berlin) 16(1) [dated 1852?]: 388-394.

Villegas-Guzman, G.A.; Roldan-Hernández, L.; Campillo, G. 2012. [Pseudoscorpions (Arachnida: Pseudoscorpiones) present in the stomach content of Cophosaurus texanus (Sauria: Phrynosomatidae) from Mexico]. (In Spanish). Revista Iberica de Aracnologia 21: 151-152.

Vitt, L.J. 1977. Observations on clutch and egg size and evidence for multiple clutches in some lizards of southwestern United States. Herpetologica 33(3): 333-338.

Warne, R.W.; Gilman, C.A.; García, D.A.; Wolf, B.O. 2012. Capital breeding and allocation to life-history demands are highly plastic in lizards. American Naturalist 180(1): 130-141.

Whiting, M.J.; Godwin, J.C.; Coldren, M.K. 1991. Life history notes: Cnemidophorus sexlineatus (six-lined Racerunner) and Cophosaurus texanus (Texas Earless Lizard). Spider predation. Herpetological Review 22(2): 58.

Wilgenbusch, J.; Queiroz, K. de 2000. Phylogenetic relationships among the phrynosomatid Sand Lizards inferred from mitochondrial DNA sequences generated by heterogeneous evolutionary processes. Systematic Biology 49(3): 592-612.

Yancey, F.D. 1997. Geographic distribution: Cophosaurus texanus texanus (Texas Earless Lizard). Herpetological Review 28(2): 95.