A venomous lizard with a stout body, short limbs, a large blunt head, and scales that resemble beads, occurring from the south-western US to Guatemala.
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Family Helodermatidae and genus Heloderma: the Mexican beaded lizard (H. horridum) and the Gila monster
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Moreover, like many snakes - but unlike any other lizards - Gila monsters and beaded lizards are venomous.
Gila monsters are one of only two venomous lizards in the world, the other being the closely related beaded lizards.
At rest, Gila monsters and beaded lizards have among the lowest metabolic rates ever measured in lizards - far lower than the rates in monitor lizards.
Such shelters - usually abandoned mammal burrows, rocky crevices, or, in the case of the beaded lizards, tree cavities - are crucial to survival in regions of great seasonal extremes of climate.
You have got the Gila monster and you've got the beaded lizard.
I had my gear, my letters of permission, and four years of field experience observing the beaded lizard's sister species, the Gila monster (H. suspectum).
They also say that the bite of the Mexican beaded lizard is highly hemotoxic.
The other-the beaded lizard - also happens to live here.
The only poisonous lizards are the Gila monster and the beaded lizard, both of which live in the deserts of Mexico and Arizona.