Aspidoscelis tigris
| Western whiptail | ||||||||||||||||
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 A. t. multiscutatus | ||||||||||||||||
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| Aspidoscelis tigris Reed et al., 2002 |
The western whiptail (Aspidoscelis tigris) is a small lizard that ranges throughout most of the southwestern United States. Key differences between this species and the Checkered Whiptail (Aspidoscelis tesselata) are the lack of enlarged scales anterior to the gular fold and the presence of enlarged antebatrachial scales. It was previously known under Cnemidophorus tigris, until phylogenetic analyses concluded that the genus Cnemidophorus was polyphyletic. This lizard is most famous for same-sex reproduction.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Cnemidophorus tigris"
