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Reptilia    Squamata (part-other lizards)    Teiidae  
Priscilla’s Whiptail
Aspidoscelis priscillae Cole, Taylor, Neaves, Baumann, Newton, Schnittker, and Baumann, 2017
as-pid-OSS-uh-lis — pri-SILL-ee-eye
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SSAR 9th Edition Comments:
 This newly named species was generated in the laboratory by hybridization between A. uniparens and A. arizonae (as A. inornatus) (Cole et al., 2017, Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 161: 285–321). (de Queiroz, Kevin and Lauren M. Chan. 2025. Squamata (excluding snakes) – Lizards. Pages 23-37 in Kirsten E. Nicholson (Editor), Scientific and Standard English Names of Amphibians and Reptiles of North America North of Mexico, with Comments Regarding Confidence in Our Understanding, 9th Edition. Society for the Study of Amphibians and Reptiles, Lawrence, Kansas. 87 pp.)

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Province/State Distribution:
United States: Missouri

Taxonomic Etymology:
A parthenogenetic species named in honor of a female scientist.
Aspidoscelis — Greek for “shield leg.”
priscillae — Feminine patronym honoring Priscilla H. Coleman, a biologist who studied whiptails.

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No historic English names have been assigned to this taxon yet.


Selected References:
1970 Gorman, George C. Chromosomes and the systematics of the family Teiidae (Sauria, Reptilia). Copeia 1970(2):230-245
2002 Reeder, Tod W., Charles J. Cole, and Herbert C. Dessauer. Phylogenetic relationships of Whiptail lizards of the genus Cnemidophorus (Squamata: Teiidae): A test of monophyly, reevaluation of karyotypic evolution, and review of hybrid origins. American Museum Novitates (3365):1-61
2017 Cole, Charles J., Harry L. Taylor, William B. Neaves, Diana P. Baumann, Aracely Newton, Robert Schnittker, and Peter Baumann. The second known tetraploid species of parthenogenetic tetrapod (Reptilia: Squamata: Teiidae): Description, reproduction, comparisons with ancestral taxa, and origins of multiple clones. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 161(8):285-321

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