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    Are there such things as yellow spotted lizards?

    Question #45569. Asked by water edd. (Mar 22 04 11:29 AM)


    Ocelot's_purr

    		There is no such thing as Louis Sachar's "yellow spotted lizard" if that's what you meant. However, several species of real lizards do have yellow spots on them; Gila monsters, side-blotched lizards, blue tailed monitors, black-collard lizards, and Eastern collard lizards, just to name a few.


    Mar 22 04, 3:57 PM
    TheAlphaWolf

    		are you sure?
    the tropical night lizard (Lepidophyma flavimaculatum) is also called the yellow spotted night lizard.
    http://www.digimorph.org/specimens/Lepidophyma_flavimaculatum/
    http://home.earthlink.net/~itec3/Sauria/Xantusidae/Lepidophyma_flavimaculatum.html



    Mar 22 04, 4:10 PM
    Ocelot's_purr

    		Louis Sachar's description of a "yellow spotted lizard" in his book "Holes" says that they have exactly 11 yellow spots, black teeth, yellow eyes rimmed by red circles, yellow-green bodies, are found in Texas, and are extremely venomous to humans.
    The "yellow spotted night lizard" (Lepidophyma flavimaculatum) doesn't have any of those characteristics.

    Mar 22 04, 4:23 PM

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