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Marbled Whiptail
Aspidoscelis marmoratus (Baird and Girard, 1852)

SSAR 9th Edition 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.
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Province/State Distribution:
USA: New Mexico Texas

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

Selected References:
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
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
1968 Taylor, Harry L. The occurrence of the teiid lizard Cnemidophorus tigris marmoratus in Arizona. Herpetologica 24(2):162-168
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
2021 Walker, J. Martin, Brian K. Sullivan, and James E. Cordes. Sanctioned nomenclature for triploid parthenogenetic Colorado Checkered Whiptail and for other taxa of the lizard genus Aspidoscelis (Family Teiidae). Herpetological Review 52(3):550–558

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