Pygmy Short-horned Lizard COSEWIC assessment and status report
Official title: COSEWIC Assessment and Update Status Report on the Pygmy Short-horned Lizard (Phrynosoma douglasii) COSEWIC
Table of contents
- Assessment Summary
- Executive Summary
- Species Information
- Distribution
- Habitat
- Biology
- Population Sizes and Trends
- Limiting Factors and Threats
- Special Significance of the Species
- Existing Protection or Other Status Designations
- Technical Summary
- Acknowledgements and Authorities Consulted
- Information Sources
- Biographical Summary of Report Writer
- Collections Examined
Assessment and Update Status Report
on the
Pygmy Short-horned Lizard
Phrynosoma douglasii
in Canada
Extirpated 2007
COSEWIC
Committee on the Status of Endangered Wildlife in Canada
COSEPAC
Comité sur la situation des espèces en péril au Canada
COSEWIC status reports are working documents used in assigning the status of wildlife species suspected of being at risk. This report may be cited as follows:
COSEWIC 2007. COSEWIC assessment and update status report on the Pygmy Short-horned Lizard Phrynosoma douglasii in Canada. Committee on the Status of Endangered Wildlife in Canada. Ottawa. vi + 24 pp.
Previous reports:
COSEWIC 2000. COSEWIC assessment and status report on the Pygmy Short-horned Lizard Phrynosoma douglasii (Pigmy Short-horned Phrynosoma douglasii and Greater Short-hornedPhrynosoma hernandesi)in Canada. Committee on the Status of Endangered Wildlife in Canada. Ottawa. iv + 22 pp.
Powell, G.L., and A.P. Russell. 1992. COSEWIC status report on the s hort-horned lizard Phrynosoma douglasii (Pygmy P.d. douglassii and Eastern P.d. brevirostre) in Canada. Committee on the Status of Endangered Wildlife in Canada. Ottawa. 1-22 pp.
Production note:
COSEWIC would like to acknowledge Mike Sarell for writing the status report on the Pygmy Short-horned Lizard Phrynosoma douglasii in Canada, prepared under contract with Environment Canada, overseen and edited by Ron Brooks, Co-chair (Reptiles) of the COSEWIC Amphibians and Reptiles Species Specialist Subcommittee.
For additional copies contact:
COSEWIC Secretariat
c/o Canadian Wildlife Service
Environment Canada
Ottawa, ON
K1A 0H3
Tel.: 819-953-3215
Fax: 819-994-3684
COSEWIC E-mail
COSEWIC Website
Également disponible en français sous le titre Évaluation et Rapport de situation du COSEPAC sur le spatulaire (Polyodon spathula) au Canada – Mise à jour.
Cover illustration:
Pygmy Short-horned Lizard -- Photo by Suzanne L. Collins.
©Her Majesty the Queen in Right of Canada 2007
Catalogue No. CW69-14/531-2007E-PDF
ISBN 978-0-662-46036-7
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