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Giant Whiptail
Aspidoscelis motaguae Sackett, 1941

Current SSAR Comments:
Native to Mexico south to Nicaragua. It was introduced during the 1980s and established in Hialeah and Opa-Locka, Miami-Dade County, Florida (Bartlett, 1995, U.S. Tropical Fish Hobbyist 43: 112, 114–119, 121–122, 124–126; Meshaka et al., 2004, The Exotic Amphibians and Reptiles of Florida. Krieger Publishing Company, Malabar, Florida). It has since been found at other localities in Miami-Dade County (Smith and Krysko, 2007, Caribbean Journal of Science 43: 260–265) and Summerland Key, Monroe County (Enge et al., 2015, Herpetological Review 46: 567; Enge and Krysko, 2019, Aspidoscelis motaguae. Pages 428–429 in Krysko et al. (Editors) Amphibians and Reptiles of Florida. University Press of Florida, Gainesville, Florida).

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:
1941 Sackett, J. Townsend. Philadelphia. Part II.- A new Teiid lizard of the genus Cnemidophorus. Notulae Naturae (77):1-4
1962 Duellman, William E. and Richard G. Zweifel. A synopsis of the lizards of the sexlineatus group (Genus Cnemidophorus). Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 123(3):155-210
2007 Smith, Catherine A. and Krysko, Kenneth L. Distributional comments on the Teiid Lizards (Squamata: Teiidae) of Florida with a key to species. Caribbean Journal of Science 43(2):260-265

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