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  • The brightly colored collared lizard, Crotaphytus collaris collaris, is found in the glade habitat of the White River Hills (39c).

    Ecoregions of Iowa and Missouri (EPA) 2008

  • No fossils yet, but we caught this juvenile Crotaphytus collaris eastern or common collared lizard on the way in this morning.

    Archive 2008-05-01 Sarah Werning 2008

  • No fossils yet, but we caught this juvenile Crotaphytus collaris eastern or common collared lizard on the way in this morning.

    Field Season Is Go Sarah Werning 2008

  • In a study published in the September issue of The American Naturalist, A. Kristopher Lappin (Northern Arizona University) and Jerry F. Husak (Oklahoma State University) use the eastern collared lizard (Crotaphytus collaris), a sexually dimorphic lizard in which the jaws of males function as a weapon in fights, to test the hypothesis that weapon performance (i.e., bite force) is a better predictor of fitness than body size and weapon size.

    A language which shouldn't be possible 2005

  • At age 8 she'd show visitors to Branson where the best fishing holes were for crappie and bass, directed them to the best "mom and pop" cafes, and stood on the main street corner lecturing on the crotophytus collaris (collared lizard).

    Susan Dearing 1996

  • An ecological study of the collared lizard (Crotaphytus collaris).

    Birds from Coahuila, Mexico Emil K. Urban

  • (_Arctonyx_) are Asiatic; the best-known species (_A. collaris_) ranges from the eastern Himalayas to Burma; the smaller _A. taxoides_ is found in

    Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy" Various

  • E La Rosa and at Diamante Pass, may be intermediate between _C.c. collaris_ (then called _C.c. chihuahuae_) and _C.c. nanus_.

    Birds from Coahuila, Mexico Emil K. Urban

  • Flicker (Coleptes caffer collaris) — Feathers of the red-shafted flicker.

    Tseh So, a Small House Ruin, Chaco Canyon, New Mexico : 1937

  • Latin name, _Ursus collaris_, means the bear with a collar.

    Black Bruin The Biography of a Bear Clarence Hawkes 1901

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