Object Status:
Unlocated
Accession Date:
By 1823
Primary Source Reference:
Thomas Say's description in Edwin James, comp., Account of an Expedition from Pittsburgh to the Rocky Mountains, Performed in the years 1819 and '20: By Order of the Hon. J.C. Calhoun, Sec'y of War: Under the Command of Major Stephen H. Long. From the Notes of Major Long, Mr. T. Say, and Other Gentlemen of the Exploring Party, 2 vols. (Philadelphia, 1823), 2: 252 / https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/40217198
Additional Source Text:
Richard Harlan also described this species in American Herpetology, or Genera of North American Reptilia (Philadelphia. 1827), p. 65 / https://hdl.handle.net/2027/hvd.32044106227192?urlappend=%3Bseq=71
Specimen Type:
Dead/preserved
Current Common Name:
Common collared lizard
Current Scientific Name
Crotaphytus collaris
