Colorado Desert Fringe-toed Lizard vs. Coachella Valley Fringe-toed Lizard

Neighbours across the Salton Trough; their records touch at the south end of the Coachella Valley. They look much the same. A: Eye-spots tending to line up in broken stripes in the Colorado Desert Fringe-toed Lizard; eye-spots scattered, not lined up in the Coachella Valley Fringe-toed Lizard. B: Orange-pink stripes along the sides in spring and a black bar on each side in the Colorado Desert Fringe-toed Lizard; plain white, no black bar (or a tiny one), no orange in the Coachella Valley Fringe-toed Lizard. No open photo shows the Coachella Valley lizard's belly from below. Range decides most of the time: the Coachella Valley only (Coachella, threatened) vs Imperial and eastern San Diego counties (Colorado Desert).

Photographs via iNaturalist under Creative Commons licences; the photographers are credited on the sheet.

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