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Reptilia    Squamata (part)    Teiidae  

Canyon Spotted Whiptail
Aspidoscelis burti (Taylor, 1938)

SSAR 9th Edition Comments:
Both subspecies below were treated as species in the 8th edition of this list; however, Barley et al. (2021, American Naturalist, 198: 295–309) suggested that they are conspecific with A. burti (although A. b. xanthonotus was not sampled) based on phylogenetic and population structure analyses.

Range maps are based on curated specimens and provided gratis by CNAH.
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Province/State Distribution:
USA: Arizona Arizona New Mexico

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

Selected References:
1931 Burt, Charles E. A study of the teiid lizards of the genus Cnemidophorus with special reference to their phylogenetic relationships. Bulletin of the United States National Museum (154):1-286
1938 Taylor, Edward H. Notes on the herpetological fauna of the Mexican state of Sonora. University of Kansas Science Bulletin (19):475-503
1970 Gorman, George C. Chromosomes and the systematics of the family Teiidae (Sauria, Reptilia). Copeia 1970(2):230-245
1991 Collins, Joseph T. Viewpoint: A new taxonomic arrangement for some North American amphibins and reptiles Herpetological Review 22(2):42-43
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
2014 Crother, Brian I. The bold taxonomic hypotheses of Collins (1991): 23 years later. Herpetological Review 45(2):268-272
2017 Bezy, Robert L., Philip C. Rosen, Thomas R. Van Devender, and Erik F. Enderson. Southern distributional limits of the Sonoran Desert herpetofauna along the mainland coast of northwestern Mexico Mesoamerican Herpetology 4(1):138-167

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