I have just aquired a supposside pair of crevice spiny tailes.
Does anyone here know how to tell the sex of them. I'm pretty
sure one is a male fence lizard. One is larger & has dark bars or stripes on the tail. The other is smally, has two blue strips on its belly. It also puffs its chin (or beard) out when frightened,plus its "bitey" The other one will calm down & let me pet its head & seems to enjoy it. It will wrap its feet around my finger & act quite calm & comfortable. Can anyone help me? Thank you!
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Crevice spiny tailed lizards.
grannyK
Aug 11, 2009 04:56 PM
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irunfast
Feb 26, 2010 08:48 PM
Can you post some pictures. In my experience with poinsetti here in NM, they almost never try to bite. If they are poinsetti than the males generally have black markings on the ventral surface. Females tend to have a more distictly banded back and both sexes have distinctly black and white/grey bands on the tail. They also tend to have more laterally flattened bodies than most other Sceloporus (except other torquatus/jarrovi group Scelops). Hope this helps.
Ian
