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Little Striped Whiptail
Aspidoscelis arizonae (Van Denburgh, 1896)

Current SSAR Comments:
Barley et al. (2021, American Naturalist, 198: 295–309) presented phylogenetic evidence that the populations of whiptails in the United States formerly referred to A. inornatus constitute a separate species, the oldest available name for which is A. arizonae. This taxon assumes the former standardized English name of “Aspidoscelis inornata” as the only populations formerly referred to that species that occur north of Mexico.

Range maps are based on curated specimens and provided gratis by CNAH.
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First instance(s) of published English names:
No historic English names have been assigned to this taxon yet.

Taxon Links:

  
Catalog of American Amphibians and Reptiles
  
The Reptile Database
  
NatureServe
  
iNaturalist
  
GenBank
  
USGS - Nonindigenous Aquatic Species Database

Pertinent LIterature:
1896 Van Denburgh, John. A list of some reptiles from Southeastern Arizona, with a description of a new species of Cnemidophorus. Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences 2(6):338-349
2021 Barley, Anthony J., Tod W. Reeder, Adrián Nieto Montes de Oca, Charles J. Cole, Robert C. Thomson. A new diploid parthenogenetic whiptail lizard from sonora, mexico, is the “missing link” in the evolutionary transition to polyploidy. American Naturalist 198(2):295-309

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