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- Title
PYGMY SHORT-HORNED LIZARD (PHRYNOSOMA DOUGLASII): UNRECORDED PREY FOR THE GREAT BASIN NIGHTSNAKE (HYPSIGLENA CHLOROPHAEA DESERTICOLA).
- Authors
O'Connor, Andrew P.; Wallace, Joshua L.; Weaver, Robert E.; Hayes, Marc P.
- Abstract
The article presents a study which analyzes the predation of nightsnakes on pygmy short-horned lizard in Great Basin. The researchers have discovered a pygmy short-horned lizard when a Great Basin nightsnake was dissected. According to the gap analysis maps prepared by the researchers, Great Basin nightsnakes and pygmy short-horned lizard were sympatric in Washington's Columbia Basin. In addition, the researchers have found out that Great Basin nightsnakes were associated with coarse rocky habitats while pygmy short-horned lizards preferred finer substrates in shrub-steepe.
- Subjects
GREAT Basin; PHRYNOSOMA douglasii; NIGHT snake; ECOLOGY of predatory animals; PREDATION; HABITATS; ANIMAL feeding behavior; SNAKE behavior; DISSECTION
- Publication
Northwestern Naturalist, 2010, Vol 91, Issue 1, p79
- ISSN
1051-1733
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1898/NWN09-26.1