Lizards- Squamata

Slender Glass Lizard - Anguidae

E 2/3

Legless

Eastern Collared Lizard -Crotaphytidae

N central, S Central, SE

1-2 Dark collars

Males: orange/yellow throat and brighter colors

Territorial-males are bigger

Common in rocky areas

Females protect nests

Common Lesser Earless Lizard - Phrynosomatidae

W 2/3

Eyes on side of head

No ear opening

2 black bars on the side behind the front legs

Males: yellow tint on lower sides, blue outline on side bars

Gravid females: pink/peach tint and yellow throat patch

Diurnal

Maybe declining

Texas Horned Lizard - Phrynosomatidae

S KS and mid KS

Flat body with big spikes

Diurnal

Harvester ants are preferred prey

Eggs laid in burrows

Toxugenic-squirts toxin onto body

Skin has capillary action

Prairie Lizard - Phrynosomatidae

Localized pops

Rough scales and bands or stripes

Transverse zigzag lines or stronger stripes and weaker zigzags

Breeding males: iridescent blue sides

Diurnal

Insectivores

Coal Skink - Scincidae

East

Single postmental scale

Broad black side stripe with think cream boarder

Prairie Skink - Scincidae

Eastern 2/3 but not SE

Two postmental scales

Stripe from eye to tail or hind legs

Common Five-lined Skink - Scincidae

Forested E ¼
4 supralabials, 2 postlabials (dont count under the eye)

5 cream colored stripes

Blue tail potentially neurotoxic to cats

Insectivore

Broad-headed Skink - Scincidae

E

5 Cream colored stripes

5 supralabials

KS Threatened

Great Plains Skink - Scincidae

Statewide

Mottled

Big, not striped

Looks like chainmail

Scales run diagonal not parallel

Little Brown Skink - Scincidae

E 1/3 and S central

Small with thin legs

Tan/coper back, dark eye stripe to tail

Cream/yellow belly

Loves leaf litter

Six-Lined Racerunner - Teiidae

Statewide

Fast

6 light cream stripes

Green sides

Males have blue on jaws/belly

Big hind legs and small granular scales

Tail more textured than others