变色沙蜥Phrynocephalus versicolor
地方名：沙和尚、蟾头蜥
形态特征：成体全长90～120mm，尾长略长于头体长。身体短粗，头部圆钝，头背及体背覆以细鳞。背面黄褐色或沙黄色等，各地区色斑变异极大，常见色斑为沿背脊部有数对相互对称的深褐色斑，其周围杂以白色和黄色细虫纹。腋下具粉红色腋斑，尾背具6～8道镶黑边的黄褐色横斑，尾末端腹面黑色。
生活习性：栖于荒漠、半荒漠及荒漠草原，掘穴而栖。卵生，每产1～4枚。
地理分布：国内西北地区广布，自河北张北草原至新疆均有分布；国外分布于蒙古、哈萨克斯坦、吉尔吉斯斯坦。
环渤海地区分布：见于河北（张北、承德），北京。
生存现状：无危（LC）。
Squamata Agemidae Phrynocephalus
33.Phrynocephalus versicolor
Description Adults up to 90-120mm in TOL; TAL is longer than the SVL; short and strong body; the head is round and blunt; slender scales on the head and body dorsum;dorsum is yellowish brown or sandy yellow; color spots are variable and greatly distribute in different places; dark brown spots symmetrical to each other, along the dorsum ridge,with white and yellow slender stripes; pink spots under the armpit; 6-8 transverse yellowish brown spots with black rim on the tail vernal; dorsum of the tail end is black.
Behaviour Phrynocephalus versicolor live in the desert, semi-desert and desert steppe.They dig caves to live and lay eggs, with 1-4 eggs each time.
Distribution Widely in the northwest of China, from Zhangbei grassland in Hebei Province to Xinjiang Province China; in Mongolia, Kazakhstan and Kyrghyzstan at abroad.Distribution around Bohai Sea: in Hebei Province (Zhangbei, Chengde) and Beijing.
Conservation Least Concern (LC).
