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Yarrow's Spiny Lizard vs. Granite Spiny Lizard

Granite Spiny Lizards live on the same San Jacinto rocks as the Idyllwild colony. A: Each scale black-edged with a pale centre: a beaded look in the Yarrow's Spiny Lizard; big keeled scales, males purple, green and gold down the middle of the back in the Granite Spiny Lizard. B: A broad black collar, edged white, right across the back of the neck in the Yarrow's Spiny Lizard; a black wedge on each shoulder (not a full collar) in the Granite Spiny Lizard.

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Yarrow's Spiny Lizard

Sceloporus jarrovii

Granite Spiny Lizard

Sceloporus orcutti
Yarrow's Spiny Lizard vs. Granite Spiny Lizard: comparison sheet with the differences marked

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