Beaded Lizard

The LAIR: Beaded Lizard. June 9, 2016. Anyone know which (sub)species they have? exasperatum?

I took a picture last July of the sign for this species, which says Heloderma horridum, Mexican beaded lizard.

for what it's worth, the Zooinstitutes website says they have Rio Fuerte beaded lizard Heloderma horridum exasperatum: http://zooinstitutes.com/animalpic.asp?name=23596

And GlobalSpecies (from former ISIS records) agrees.

geomorph said:

I took a picture last July of the sign for this species, which says Heloderma horridum, Mexican beaded lizard.

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Indeed, but I wasn't sure if they followed the splits in their signage (a docent certainly spoke as though they were one species). Also, I had seen the GlobalSpecies listing that Chlidonias mentioned (though those are obviously quite outdated) so wanted to make sure.

I think it's fair to say they have Heloderma (horridum) exasperatum.

~Thylo

ThylacineAlive said:

Indeed, but I wasn't sure if they followed the splits in their signage (a docent certainly spoke as though they were one species).

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a little bit of a separate issue from what specific Beaded Lizard the zoo has, but LAIR opened in 2012 and the Beaded Lizards were split into four species in 2013 so the signage in LAIR would pre-date the split.