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Black-tailed Brush Lizard vs. Western Fence Lizard

Both are small grey lizards with blue belly patches in the males; their records overlap in San Diego County. A: Tiny and granular, one band of bigger ones in the Black-tailed Brush Lizard; big, keeled and spiny in the Western Fence Lizard. B: Sooty black toward the tip in the Black-tailed Brush Lizard; grey-brown, barred in the Western Fence Lizard.

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Black-tailed Brush Lizard

Urosaurus nigricauda

Western Fence Lizard

Sceloporus occidentalis
Black-tailed Brush Lizard vs. Western Fence Lizard: comparison sheet with the differences marked

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