Base color is tan, orange-brown, or reddish brown and typically matches the sand on which the lizard lives; the back is marked with rows of dark, circular blotches. HABITAT: The flat-tailed horned ...

Tan patches run down its spine, and several white spots — described by researchers as a “row of ‘portholes’” — dot its sides. Fyfe’s mesa geckos live in the desert around flat-topped ...