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Common Collared Lizard
The common collared lizard (''Crotaphytus collaris''), also Common name, commonly called eastern collared lizard,Robert C. Stebbins, Stebbins RC (2003). ''A Field Guide to Western Reptiles and Amphibians, Third Edition''. The Peterson Field Guide Series ®. Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin. xiii + 533 pp. . (''Crotaphytus collaris'', pp. 271-272 + Plate 27 + Map 85). Oklahoma collared lizard, mountain boomer, yellow-headed collared lizard, and collared lizard, is a North American species of lizard in the Family (biology), family Crotaphytidae. The common name "collared lizard" comes from the lizard's distinct coloration, which includes bands of black around the neck and shoulders that look like a collar. Males can be very colorful, with blue green bodies, yellow stripes on the tail and back, and yellow orange throats. There are five recognized subspecies. Etymology The Subspecies, subspecific name, ''baileyi'', is in honor of American mammalogist Vernon Orlando Bailey. S ...
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Taum Sauk Mountain State Park
Taum Sauk Mountain State Park is a Missouri state park located in the St. Francois Mountains in the Ozarks. The park encompasses Taum Sauk Mountain, the highest point in the state. The Taum Sauk portion of the Ozark Trail connects the park with nearby Johnson's Shut-ins State Park and the Bell Mountain Wilderness Area, which together are part of a large wilderness area popular with hikers and backpackers. History In 2005, a mountain top reservoir burst, sending a billion gallons of water through parts of the park and other nearby areas including Johnson's Shut-Ins State Park. Activities and amenities The park has a rustic campground, a paved trail to the highpoint, picnic facilities, and a lookout tower providing a view of the dense mountain forest obscured from other vantage points. Mina Sauk Falls Mina Sauk Falls, the highest waterfall in Missouri, is reached via a rugged trail that makes a three-mile (5 km) loop from the highpoint parking area. The falls have ...
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Vernon Orlando Bailey
Vernon Orlando Bailey (June 21, 1864 – April 20, 1942) was an American naturalist who specialized in mammalogy. He was employed by the Bureau of Biological Survey, United States Department of Agriculture (USDA). His contributions to the Bureau of Biological Survey numbered roughly 13,000 specimens including many new species. Bailey published 244 monographs and articles during his career with the USDA, and is best known for his biological surveys of Texas, New Mexico, North Dakota, and Oregon. Life and work The fourth child of Emily and Hiram Bailey, Vernon Orlando Bailey was born on June 21, 1864, in Manchester, Michigan. Bailey and his pioneer family moved by horse-drawn wagon to Elk River, Minnesota, in 1870. Hiram Bailey was a woodsman and a mason by trade who taught his son how to hunt at an early age. Since there was no school in the frontier town at the time, the Baileys schooled their children at home until they and several other local families established a school in ...
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Robert G
The name Robert is an ancient Germanic given name, from Proto-Germanic "fame" and "bright" (''Hrōþiberhtaz''). Compare Old Dutch ''Robrecht'' and Old High German ''Hrodebert'' (a compound of ''Hrōþ, Hruod'' () "fame, glory, honour, praise, renown, godlike" and ''berht'' "bright, light, shining"). It is the second most frequently used given name of ancient Germanic origin.Reaney & Wilson, 1997. ''Dictionary of English Surnames''. Oxford University Press. It is also in use Robert (surname), as a surname. Another commonly used form of the name is Rupert (name), Rupert. After becoming widely used in Continental Europe, the name entered England in its Old French form ''Robert'', where an Old English cognate form (''Hrēodbēorht'', ''Hrodberht'', ''Hrēodbēorð'', ''Hrœdbœrð'', ''Hrœdberð'', ''Hrōðberχtŕ'') had existed before the Norman Conquest. The feminine version is Roberta (given name), Roberta. The Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish form is Roberto (given name), ...
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Ralph William Axtell
Ralph (pronounced or ) is a male name of English origin, derived from the Old English ''Rædwulf'' and Old High German ''Radulf'', cognate with the Old Norse ''Raðulfr'' (''rað'' "counsel" and ''ulfr'' "wolf"). The most common forms are: * Ralph, the common variant form in English, which takes either of the given pronunciations. * Rafe, variant form which is less common; this spelling is always pronounced . * Raif, a very rare variant. Raif Rackstraw from H.M.S. Pinafore * Ralf, the traditional variant form in Dutch, German, Swedish, and Polish. * Ralfs, the traditional variant form in Latvian. * Raoul, the traditional variant form in French. * Raúl, the traditional variant form in Spanish. * Raul, the traditional variant form in Portuguese and Italian. * Raül, the traditional variant form in Catalan. * Rádhulbh, the traditional variant form in Irish. First name Middle Ages * Ralph the Timid (died 1057), pre-Conquest Norman earl of Hereford, England * Ralph de Ga ...
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Crotaphytus Collaris Melanomaculatus
''Crotaphytus'' is a genus of lizards, commonly known as collared lizards, in the family Crotaphytidae. Member species are small to medium-sized predators indigenous to the American southwest, Baja peninsula, and Mexico. Including the tail, they can be as small as or as long as , and are characterized by distinct bands of black or brown around the neck, to which their common names refer. Species The following species and subspecies are recognized as being valid. www.reptile-database.org. ''Nota bene'': A binomial authority in parentheses or a trinomial authority in parentheses indicates that the species or subspecies was originally described in a genus other than ''Crotaphytus''. Symbol In 1969, Oklahoma designated its first state reptile Twenty-eight U.S. states have named an official state reptile. As with other United States state symbols, state symbols, states compare admirable aspects of the reptile and of the state, within designating statutes. Schoolchildren o ...
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William Ingram
William Ingram may refer to: *Bill Ingram (1898–1943), American college football coach * Billy Ingram (born 1865), English footballer * W. K. Ingram (died 1981), Arkansas politician * William Ingram (priest) (1834–1901), Anglican priest and dean of Peterborough *Sir William Ingram, 1st Baronet (1847–1924), British publisher and MP * William Ayerst Ingram (1855–1913), British painter and member of the Newlyn School *William Alfred Ingram Alfred Ingram (1876–1944) was a British tennis player in the years before and after World war 1. He played in the Wimbledon singles from 1912 to 1926. His best performance at Wimbledon was a quarter final in 1913 (where he lost to Maurice ... (1876–1944), British tennis player * William T. Ingram (1913–2001), American theologian and president of Memphis Theological Seminary * William Austin Ingram (1924–2002), former United States federal judge from California * William Ingram (literature professor) (born 1930) * William Ingr ...
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Crotaphytus Collaris Fuscus
''Crotaphytus'' is a genus of lizards, commonly known as collared lizards, in the family Crotaphytidae. Member species are small to medium-sized predators indigenous to the American southwest, Baja peninsula, and Mexico. Including the tail, they can be as small as or as long as , and are characterized by distinct bands of black or brown around the neck, to which their common names refer. Species The following species and subspecies are recognized as being valid. www.reptile-database.org. ''Nota bene'': A binomial authority in parentheses or a trinomial authority in parentheses indicates that the species or subspecies was originally described in a genus other than ''Crotaphytus''. Symbol In 1969, Oklahoma designated its first state reptile Twenty-eight U.S. states have named an official state reptile. As with other United States state symbols, state symbols, states compare admirable aspects of the reptile and of the state, within designating statutes. Schoolchildren o ...
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Leonhard Stejneger
Leonhard Hess Stejneger (30 October 1851 – 28 February 1943) was a Norwegian-born American ornithologist, herpetologist and zoologist. Stejneger specialized in vertebrate natural history studies. He gained his greatest reputation with reptiles and amphibians. Wetmore, Alexander (1945). "Leonhard Hess Stejneger (1851–1943)". ''Biographical Memoir. Nat. Acad. Sci.'' 24: 145–195PDF/ref> Early life and family Stejneger was born in Bergen, Norway. His father was Peter Stamer Steineger, a merchant and auditor; his mother was Ingeborg Catharine (née Hess). Leonhard was the eldest of seven children. His sister Agnes Steineger was a Norwegian artist. Until 1880, the Steineger family had been one of the wealthy families in Bergen; at that time business reverses led to the father declaring bankruptcy. Stejneger attended the Smith Theological School in Bergen from 1859 to 1860, and Bergen Latin School until 1869. His interests in zoology developed early. By age sixteen, he h ...
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Crotaphytus Collaris Baileyi
''Crotaphytus'' is a genus of lizards, commonly known as collared lizards, in the family Crotaphytidae. Member species are small to medium-sized predators indigenous to the American southwest, Baja peninsula, and Mexico. Including the tail, they can be as small as or as long as , and are characterized by distinct bands of black or brown around the neck, to which their common names refer. Species The following species and subspecies are recognized as being valid. www.reptile-database.org. ''Nota bene'': A binomial authority in parentheses or a trinomial authority in parentheses indicates that the species or subspecies was originally described in a genus other than ''Crotaphytus''. Symbol In 1969, Oklahoma designated its first state reptile Twenty-eight U.S. states have named an official state reptile. As with other United States state symbols, state symbols, states compare admirable aspects of the reptile and of the state, within designating statutes. Schoolchildren o ...
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Wilmer W
Wilmer or Wilmers may refer to: Places *Wilmer, Alabama, United States, an unincorporated community *Wilmer, Louisiana, United States, an unincorporated hamlet *Wilmer, Texas, United States, a city *Wilmer, British Columbia, Canada, a settlement Surname Wilmer *Clive Wilmer (1945–2025), British poet *Douglas Wilmer (1920–2016), English actor *Elizabeth Wilmer, American mathematician *Emmanuel Wilmer (died 2005), Haitian killed in political violence *Franke Wilmer (born 1950), American politician *Heiner Wilmer (born 1961), German Roman Catholic bishop *James Jones Wilmer (1750–1814), Episcopal priest and U.S. Senate chaplain *Richard Hooker Wilmer (1816–1900), Bishop of Alabama *Val Wilmer (born 1941), British photographer and writer *William Holland Wilmer (1782–1827), Episcopal priest, author and president of College of William and Mary Wilmers *Mary-Kay Wilmers (born 1938), British journal editor *Robert G. Wilmers (1934–2017), American banker *Wilhelm Wilmers (18 ...
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Henry Sheldon Fitch
Henry Sheldon Fitch (December 25, 1909 – September 8, 2009) was an American herpetologist. Fitch was born in Utica, New York. When he was a year old, the family moved to Medford in the Rogue Valley in Oregon. Growing up, he had a keen interest in all the reptiles he could find on his father's ranch. He recounts that he especially liked snakes, because "the real bonus was in seeing horrified adults scatter." In 1926, he enrolled at the University of Oregon, but switched to UC Berkeley for his graduate work. He obtained his M.A. in 1933 and a Ph.D. in zoology in 1937. From 1938 to 1947, he worked for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) as a field biologist in the department of pest control, studying rodents such as squirrels, gophers, and kangaroo rats. He served from 1941 to 1945 in the Medical Corps as an army pharmacist, stationed initially in the United Kingdom, then France, and finally in Germany. In 1946, he married Virginia Ruby Preston, with whom he had three c ...
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Crotaphytus Collaris Auriceps
''Crotaphytus'' is a genus of lizards, commonly known as collared lizards, in the family Crotaphytidae. Member species are small to medium-sized predators indigenous to the American southwest, Baja peninsula, and Mexico. Including the tail, they can be as small as or as long as , and are characterized by distinct bands of black or brown around the neck, to which their common names refer. Species The following species and subspecies are recognized as being valid. www.reptile-database.org. ''Nota bene'': A binomial authority in parentheses or a trinomial authority in parentheses indicates that the species or subspecies was originally described in a genus other than ''Crotaphytus''. Symbol In 1969, Oklahoma designated its first state reptile Twenty-eight U.S. states have named an official state reptile. As with other United States state symbols, state symbols, states compare admirable aspects of the reptile and of the state, within designating statutes. Schoolchildren o ...
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