indentifying this lizard

[XxRachxX]

why is it definately a female?
ive just looked at some piccies and this lizard looks nothing like one........and he doesnt look as spikey as an emerald swift ::shrugs::

[fr0glet]

That looks to me like it is a member of the cordylus family. I just had to jump through a bunch of hoops to identify one in that family.... let's see if I can find that nifty ID website.................

http://tallbo.mora-c.net/beskrivning...l_cordylus.htm
That's a way scientific website, might be a bit of a pain in the *** without a good field guide.

Melissa Kaplan's page on cordylus care: http://www.anapsid.org/cordylus.html

hth

[Blackwidow69]

Try looking under Red headed agama, i still say its a female!!!!!!!!!!!

[Tim and Julie B]

I'm pretty sure it's not a cordylus species, but fence lizard seems right on the button. Here's a pic of an armadillo lizard(cordylus)

[fr0glet]

You're right, the tail scales are all off. I neglected to look there, the face is reminiscent of cordylus.

[Tim and Julie B]

Here are some photos I tracked down to show what I was thinking Rach's potential herp may be. This is sceloporus merriami merriami.[IMG]

[XxRachxX]

if only they could talk!!! "what are you mr. lizard?" that last picture looks similar
http://gto.ncsa.uiuc.edu/pingleto/lizpix/lizpix2.htm
if you notice on this site, he does actually look like that group of fence lizards, but on other sites he looks completely different! thats where the above photo was (probably) found.

I don't know what it is but I don't believe it a Cordylus!

This is a pic of my Cordylus tropidosternum

[ectotherm]

Definitely Sceloporous, occidentalis or undulatus? Western Fence vs. Northern Fence - but it still doesn't appear to be a dead on match.