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Uta stansburiana elegans
This lizard was just hanging out watching me while I walked past it. "Color is brown, gray, yellowish, or black, with dark blotches, spots, and sometimes stripes. Often there is a double row of dark spots or wedges on the back, edged with white on the rear. The underside is whitish to gray and mostly unmarked. The throat is mottled with dark and light. A dark blue-black mark on the sides of the chest behind the front limbs gives this lizard its name. This dark mark is sometimes faint or absent."
Hole in side of hill along trail in chaparral during a wildlife transect survey.
Spotted on Feb 13, 2015
Submitted on Feb 15, 2015
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