Texas horned lizard blunt snout, which give it a decidedly batrachian appearance. "Phrynosoma" literally means "toad-bodied" and "cornutum" means "horned". The lizard's horns are extensions of its cranium and contain true bone. The Texas horned lizard is the largest-bodied and most widely distributed of the roughly 14 species of horned lizards in the western United States and Mexico. The average Texas horned lizard is in snout-vent length, but the upper boundary for males is and for females it is . Although its coloration generally serves as camouflage against predation, when threatened by a predator, a horned lizard puffs up and appears very fat,
Creature type (Dungeons & Dragons) an insect, arachnid, arthropod, worm, or other invertebrate. Some have magical abilities, and others are giant versions of real insects. Most vermin are considered mindless individually. Since many vermin are too small to model individually, they are often represented as swarms (clusters that act like single creatures and sometimes have hive minds). In 4th edition, type was split into types and origins. "Beast", "humanoid" and "monstrous humanoid" remained classified as creature types, while many subtypes from earlier editions were converted to keywords, as were some types, such as "undead" and "construct". "Animates" are magically animated creatures, such as golems, zombies