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Definition of Beaded lizard
1. Noun. Lizard with black and yellowish beadlike scales; of western Mexico.
Generic synonyms: Venomous Lizard
Group relationships: Genus Heloderma, Heloderma
Lexicographical Neighbors of Beaded Lizard
Literary usage of Beaded lizard
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Reptile Book: A Comprehensive, Popularised Work on the Structure and by Raymond Lee Ditmars (1907)
"... A Family Composed o\ but Two Species—The Gila Monster and ibe Mexican Beaded
Lizard—Both of the Genus ..."
2. College zoology by Robert William Hegner (1918)
"—The two species included in this family are the gila monster, Hdo- derma suspectum,
of Arizona and New Mexico, and the beaded lizard, //. horrid urn, ..."
3. Ethnozoology of the Tewa Indians by Junius Henderson, John Peabody Harrington (1914)
"of the New World appear to be the Gila monster and the Mexican beaded lizard,
neither of which occurs in northern New Mexico. Among the snakes the only ..."
4. Biodiversity and the Management of the Madrean Archipelago: The Sky Islands edited by Leonard F. DeBano (1999)
"... and Mexican beaded lizard (Heloderma horridum). Several species commonly
thought of as desert dwellers actually occur in the tropical deciduous forest ..."
5. Natural Emirates: Wildlife and Environment of the United Arab Emirates by Peter Vine (1996)
"... gila monster and the Mexican beaded lizard both from the Americas, there are
numerous poisonous snakes, in various forms on all the continents, ..."
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