Image / Coast horned lizard at Torrey Pines State Natural Reserve, San Diego, 1931

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Title: Coast horned lizard at Torrey Pines State Natural Reserve, San Diego, 1931
Alternative Title: Coast horned lizard
Contributor: Cornell, Ralph D.
Date Created and/or Issued: April 09, 1931
1931-04-09
Contributing Institution: UCLA, Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library
Collection: Cornell (Ralph D.) papers
Rights Information: copyrighted
Copyright is owned by the UC Regents. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
Description: Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds.
Two views of a coast horned lizard, a species of phrynosomatid lizard that are found from Baja California to Sacramento Valley. The lizard shoots high pressure streams of blood out of its eyes in defense. The lizard was photographed at Torrey Pines State Natural Reserve, a coastal state park in San Diego, California.
Text from nitrate negative sleeve: Torrey Pines, Horned Toad, 4/9/31.
Type: image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: uclamss_1411_0625
ark:/21198/zz002b6ktj
Language: English
Subject: San Diego (Calif.)
Environment
Phrynosoma coronatum
Torrey Pines State Reserve (Calif.)
Coast horned lizard
Source: Ralph D. Cornell Papers, 1925-1972

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