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Common Spotted Whiptail
Aspidoscelis gularis (Baird and Girard, 1852)

Current SSAR Comments:
Based on phylogenetic analysis of two mtDNA gene fragments, Esquivel-Ramírez et al. (2021, Acta Zoologica 102: 129–142) inferred six evolutionary significant units (ESUs) within Mexican A. gularis, at least one of which (ESU 5) occurs in the United States. Although the ESUs were incongruent geographically with previously recognized subspecies, if treated as subspecies, ESU 5 would bear the name A. g. gularis. See note on A. scalaris regarding its treatment as a separate species from A. gularis. See note on A. laredoensis regarding hybridization between that species and A. gularis.

Range maps are based on curated specimens and provided gratis by CNAH.
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First instance(s) of published English names:
Rio Grande Six-lined Lizard (Cnemidophorus gularis: Brown, Arthur, E. 1902. Report of the Board of Directors. Pages 5-22 in Thirtieth Annual Report of the Board of Directors of the Zoological Society of Philadelphia. Allen, Lane, and Scott, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. pp.); Six-lined Lizard (Cnemidophorus sexlineatus gularis: Brown, Arthur, E. 1902. Report of the Board of Directors. Pages 5-22 in Thirtieth Annual Report of the Board of Directors of the Zoological Society of Philadelphia. Allen, Lane, and Scott, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. pp.); Western Lined Lizard (Cnemidophorus gularis: Strecker, John K. 1922. An annotated catalogue of the amphibians and reptiles of Bexar County, Texas. Bulletin Scientific Society of San Antonio (4):1-31); Striped Race-runner (Cnemidophorus gularis: Strecker, John K. 1922. An annotated catalogue of the amphibians and reptiles of Bexar County, Texas. Bulletin Scientific Society of San Antonio (4):1-31); Sonoran Whip-tail Lizard (Cnemidophorus gularis: Van Denburgh, John. 1922. The Reptiles of Western North America: An Account of the Species Known to Inhabit California and Oregon, Washinton, Idaho, Utah, Nevada, Arizona, British Columbia, Sonora, and Lower California. Volume I. Lizards. California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco. 556pp.); Blue-bellied Race Runner (Cnemidophorus sacki gularis: Schmidt, Karl P. 1953. A Check List of North American Amphibians and Reptiles. 6th Edition. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, Illinois. 280pp.); Big Bend Blue-bellied Race Runner (Cnemidophorus sacki semifasciatus: Schmidt, Karl P. 1953. A Check List of North American Amphibians and Reptiles. 6th Edition. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, Illinois. 280pp.);

Taxon Links:

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

Pertinent LIterature:
1852 Baird, Spencer F. and Charles Girad. Characteristics of some new reptiles in the Museum of the Smithsonian Institution, Second Part. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia 6():125-129

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