Texas horned lizard Texas horned lizard The Texas horned lizard ("Phrynosoma cornutum") is one of about 14 North American species of spikey-bodied reptiles called horned lizards. "P. cornutum" ranges from Colorado and Kansas to northern Mexico (in the Sonoran desert), and from southeastern Arizona to Texas. Also, isolated, introduced populations are found in the Carolinas, Georgia, and northern Florida. Texas horned lizards may also be native to Louisiana and Arkansas. The horned lizard is popularly called a "horned toad", "horny toad", or "horned frog", but it is neither a toad nor a frog. The popular names come from the lizard's rounded body and
Persian horned viper are 134-163 ventral scales and 35-50 paired subcaudals. The tail is short. Persian horned viper, false horned viper, Persian horned desert viper, eye-horned viper. "P. persicus" is found in the Sinai of Egypt, Israel, Jordan, northern Saudi Arabia, the mountains of Oman, northern and northwestern Iraq, possibly southern Syria, extreme southeastern Turkey, northwestern Azerbaijan, Iran, and Pakistan to the borders of Afghanistan. The type locality is listed as ""Perse"" (= Persia). These snakes are generally rather slow-moving and may employ various methods of locomotion, including sidewinding, serpentine, and rectilinear. These snakes are almost totally nocturnal, only being seen during the