Description: It is a small lizard, about 3 inches or 75 mm long and is gray or tan. The tail length is longer than the body.

Habitat: Habitats include desert (e.g., rocky foothills and slopes of Arizona upland desert between 1,000 and 4,000 feet), thornscrub, and oak-grass habitats above 4,000 feet.

Range: The range includes south-central Arizona and Sonora and Sinaloa in western Mexico.

Found in these States: AZ | NM

Diet: The diet of earless lizards consists of arthropods, such as butterflies, moths, beetles, grasshoppers, insects, and spiders.

Reproduction: Earless lizards lay their eggs between March and August, and about fifty days are needed for them to hatch. They tend to lay one to three clutches of eggs. Clutch sizes range from one to 10 eggs. When hatched, the hatchlings are about 2 inches long.

Status: Listed as Least Concern in view of its wide distribution, presumed large population, and because it is unlikely to be declining fast enough to qualify for listing in a more threatened category.

Subspecies: Two, with one found in the United States:
Un-Named Earless Lizard - (Holbrookia elegans elegans)
Western Elegant Earless Lizard - (Holbrookia elegans thermophila)

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