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Holbrookia maculata

species of reptile

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 15, 2026
Entity authorityQ3022372 ↗
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Holbrookia maculata, commonly known as the lesser earless lizard, is a species of lizard in the family Phrynosomatidae. The species is native to the southwestern and central United States and northern Mexico. There are eight recognized subspecies.

Taxonomy

Subspecies

The following eight subspecies of Holbrookia maculata are recognized as being valid, including the nominotypical subspecies.

H. m. bunkeri H.M. Smith, 1935 – Bunker's earless lizard

H. m. campi Schmidt, 1921

H. m. dickersonae Schmidt, 1921 – Dickerson's earless lizard

H. m. flavilenta Cope, 1883

H. m. maculata Girard, 1851 – northern earless lizard

H. m.

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This entry incorporates text from “Holbrookia maculata” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.