Basin wiki · Animals
Desert spiny lizard
Sceloporus magister
A rough-scaled fence-and-rock lizard, often the other skinny lizard on a chuckwalla boulder.
In the basin
Common on walls, woodpiles, and granite. Keel-scaled and often a dark neck band; males show blue on the belly in season. They are not chuckwallas and not collared lizards. Wikipedia and the park reptile list have the ID.
