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Marbled Whiptail
Aspidoscelis marmoratus (Baird and Girard, 1852)

Current SSAR Comments:
See de Queiroz et al. (2017, SSAR Herpetological Circular 43: 41) regarding incomplete separation of this species from A. tigris. The subspecies A. m. marmoratus and A. m. reticuloriens are differentiated genetically but weakly so (Hall, 2016, Ph.D. dissertation, University of Texas at Arlington). For the change in the ending of the species name, see note under Aspidoscelis.

Range maps are based on curated specimens and provided gratis by CNAH.
(Created by Travis W. Taggart; Version: 2023.04.08.10.31.11)
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First instance(s) of published English names:
Big Ben Tessellated Race Runner (Cnemidophorus tigris marmoratus: 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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