Seein's how ya'll is some pretty fair critter experts, what kinda lizzard is this?

timc

Found this when I got my lawnmower out of the shed this afternoon. When I first saw the tail I thought it was a copperhead under my lawnmower but then this thing craweled out. I have lived in Texas over 50 years and never saw a lizzard like this before. The thing is almost 2 feet long with the tail and moves fairly slow. The only thing I can find that looks close to it is an aligator lizzard. The skin is scalely like a snake and the body is long and kinda looks like an aligator. It has no teeth and it has blue eyes.
:uhm:

NN

Never saw one, but, I tried to look it up and think your right.

5280 shooter II

Put it in a microwave for a few seconds and see if it turns into Godzilla.

GunnerK19

Yup, Northern Alligator Lizard.

dlk

Maybe somebody's pet got away?

timc

GunnerK19 wrote: »

Yup, Northern Alligator Lizard.

He had a heck of a commute to get to Texas.

Scared the beejesus out of me when I first saw it in that dark storage shed!

Teach

I've seen critters just about that ugly in truck stop parking lots- - - - -us drivers called 'em "Lot Lizards"!
Jerry

Make_My_Day

Teach wrote: »

I've seen critters just about that ugly in truck stop parking lots- - - - -us drivers called 'em "Lot Lizards"!
Jerry

Aren't lot lizards what the drivers call those, umm...ladies of the evening that stroll up to you at night and ask if you want, uh....company for a fee?

Teach

Yep, you got it! Some of them are so ugly they could make a freight train take a dirt road! Trying to get any sleep at a truck stop in Fresno California was impossible- - - -we called the place "Hooker City"!
Jerry

timc

Well I took him back home to the storage shed, he may be ungly but a lizzard that size has gotta eat a lot of bugs so he is welcome in my book!

Michakav

timc wrote: »

Well I took him back home to the storage shed, he may be ungly but a lizzard that size has gotta eat a lot of bugs so he is welcome in my book!

Smart man.

Teach

That's sort of the rule at the Southeast Shoot- - - - -unless it's a buzztail or a Copperhead, etc., leave it alone!
Jerry

breamfisher

Texas Alligator Lizard.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerrhonotus_infernalis

Slanteyedshootist

I think that's called lunch.

Oops, just the Asian heritage coming back.

Jayhawker

Slanteyedshootist wrote: »

I think that's called lunch.

Oops, just the Asian heritage coming back.

...and how would you prepare the Arrigator Rizard?

timc

I hear they taste like dog.

orchidman

Slanteyedshootist wrote: »

I think that's called runch.

Fixed it for ya.

Slanteyedshootist

Jayhawker wrote: »

...and how would you prepare the Arrigator Rizard?

Soak in teriyaki sauce. Stick it on a bamboo skewer. Hibachi. Yum yum!

Teach

"That's a big 10-4!"
Jerry

Mr.F

If he isn't a chomper he'd sell at a pet shop fast up here .

Jayhawker

You mean other things can be cooked on a stick?