Northern desert horned lizard occurs primarily in Nevada, where its range covers most of the state, but its territory also extends into parts of Idaho, Utah, and Oregon. Northern desert horned lizard The northern desert horned lizard ("Phrynosoma platyrhinos platyrhinos") is a subspecies of the desert horned lizard, along with the southern desert horned lizard ("P. p. calidiarum"). It is often referred to as a "horny toad" due to its wide body and blunt snout, but it is not a toad. It ranges in size between from snout to cloaca, and can get to long including the tail. Like all horned lizards, it features
Arizona toad so the International Union for Conservation of Nature has assessed it as being of "least concern". Arizona toad The Arizona toad ("Anaxyrus microscaphus") is a species of toad in the family Bufonidae. It is endemic to the southwestern United States, where its natural habitats are temperate lowland forests, rivers and streams, swamps, freshwater marshes, freshwater springs, ponds, open excavations, irrigated land, and seasonally flooded agricultural land. The Arizona toad was first described by the American herpetologist Edward Drinker Cope in 1867. He named it "Bufo microscaphus" and the type locality was Fort Mohave, Arizona. It was commonly known as the