Key Identification Features
- It has spiny horn-like scales on each side of the head, and its lower labials are blood-red, a feature that gives this species its common names.
- Additional color features seen in adult individuals include bright yellow skin around the eyes, blue markings on the supralabial scales, and yellow coloring on the snout, lower jaw, and throat.
- Each side of the lizard has a distinct skin fold that separates the keeled scales on its back from the smooth scales on its ventral side.
- Different subspecies have distinctly different geographic ranges: E.
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