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The beaded lizard is found in the Pacific drainages from Southern Sonora to Southwestern Guatemala and two Atlantic drainages, from Central Chiapas to Southeastern Guatemala.[10] Their habitat is primarily tropical deciduous forest and thorn scrub forest, but are found in pine-oak forest, with elevations from sea level to 1500 meters. In the wild, the animals are only active from April to mid-November, spending about an hour per day above the ground.[11]
The nominate subspecies H. h. horridum is found in Mexico, from Sonora to Oaxaca. The Rio Fuerte beaded lizard (H. h. exasperatum) is found from southern Sonora to northern Sinaloa. The Black beaded lizard ( H. h. alvarezi) is found in the northern Chiapas and the depression of the RÃo Lagartero in Huehuetenango to northwestern Guatemala.[11] The ranges of these three subspecies overlap, making them sympatric.[12] The Motagua Valley subspecies (H. h. charlesbogerti) is the only allopatric one, separated from the nearest population (H. h. alvarezi) by 250 km of unsuitable habitat.[12] The Motagua Valley beaded lizard is the most endangered of the subspecies if not of all lizards; it is found only in the dry valley of the RÃo Motagua in the north-east of Guatemala; it is believed less than 200 of these animals exist in the wild.[11
You would only find a Mexican Beaded Lizard in a zoo in California as they are natives of Mexico. The Gila Monster, a close relative, is found in southeastern California, however.
They can live for more than 30 years.
Yes, Beaded lizards are venomous.
Mexico is mostly desert, so yes
Yes they are.
Geckos aren't poisonous, but rattlesnakes, Gila monsters, and Mexican beaded lizards are.
Only lizards in the genus heloderma can harm humans. This only includes the Mexican beaded lizard, the Guatemalan beaded lizard and the Gila monster.
No. There are only two species of lizards in the world that are toxic--the Mexican Beaded Lizard, and the Gila Monster. These two similar lizards live in the desert in the Southern US and Mexico.
No, most lizards are actually harmless! However, the two most known poisonous lizards are the Gila Monster and the Mexican Beaded Lizard. Hope this helps!
The Gila Monster and Mexican Beaded lizards are the only VENOMOUS lizards in the world. But the Komodo dragon and other large monitor lizards have bacteria in their saliva the cause blood poisoning if bitten.
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Gila monster (Heloderma suspectum) ... Snapping turtles (Chelydra serpentina and Macrochelys temminckii) ... Mexican beaded lizard (Heloderma horridum ) ... The Iguanas (subfamily Iguaninae) ...
The only true venomous lizards, the Gila monster and the beaded lizard, live in the deserts of the western US. The Komodo dragon, while not venomous, has bacteria in its saliva that make it toxic, and they only live in Indonesia. There are no native venomous lizards in North Carolina.
The Mexican Beaded Lizard