Gila monster
Sign in to savespecies of venomous lizard from the southwestern United States and northwestern Mexico
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A Gila monster is a venomous lizard found in the southwestern United States and northwestern Mexico. It matters as a notable example of a venomous reptile species native to North America, making it ecologically and scientifically significant to the regions where it lives.
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Species
Near ThreatenedGENUS
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumChordata
- OrderCypriniformes
- FamilyCyprinidae
via GBIF · IUCN
Research
208 papers- Gila monster (Heloderma suspectum) envenomation: Descriptive analysis of calls to United States Poison Centers with focus on Arizona cases.Clinical toxicology (Philadelphia, Pa.) · 2015
- Gila monster: its biology, venom and bite--a review.Toxicon : official journal of the International Society on Toxinology · 1981
- Gila monster bite.Clinical toxicology (Philadelphia, Pa.) · 2012
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A Gila monster
The Gila monster (/ˈhiːlə/ HEE-lə; Heloderma suspectum) is a species of venomous lizard native to the Southwestern United States and the northwestern Mexican state of Sonora. It is a heavy, slow-moving reptile, up to 22 in (56 cm) long, and it is the only venomous lizard native to the United States. Its venomous close relatives, the four beaded lizards (all former subspecies of Heloderma horridum) inhabit Mexico and Guatemala. The Gila monster is sluggish in nature, so it is not generally dangerous and very rarely poses a real threat to humans. Nonetheless, it has a fearsome reputation and is sometimes killed despite the species being protected by state law in Arizona.
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Commons link from WikidataFauna listed on CITES Appendix IIFauna of CaliforniaFauna of the Sonoran DesertFauna of the Southwestern United StatesHelodermatidaeIUCN Red List near threatened speciesReptiles described in 1869Reptiles of MexicoReptiles of the United StatesSymbols of UtahTaxa named by Edward Drinker Cope