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Colorado Checkered Whiptail
Aspidoscelis neotesselatus (Walker, Cordes, and Taylor, 1997)

SSAR 9th Edition Comments:
 For the change in the ending of the species name, see note under Aspidoscelis.

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Province/State Distribution:
USA: Colorado Washington

First instance(s) of published English names:
Checkered Ameiva (Teius tesselata: Gray, John E. 1830. A synopsis of the species of the class reptilia. Pages 1-110 in The Animal Kingdom Arranged in Conformity with its Organization by the Baron Cuvier, member of teh Institute of France, with Additional Descriptions of all the Species Hitherto Named, and of many not before noticed. Ninth Volume. Whittaker, Treacher, and Company, London, England. pp.);

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
1970 Gorman, George C. Chromosomes and the systematics of the family Teiidae (Sauria, Reptilia). Copeia 1970(2):230-245
1995 Walker, J. Martin,, Harry L. Taylor, and James E. Cordes. Parthenogenetic Cnemidophorus tesselatus complex at Higbee, Colorado: Resolution of 30 years of controversy. Copeia 1995(3):650-658
1996 Walker, J. Martin, James E. Cordes, and Harry L. Taylor. Extirpation of the parthenogenetic lizard Cnemidophorus tesselatus from historically significant sites in Pueblo County, Colorado. Herpetological Review 27(1):16-17
1996 Taylor, Harry L., James M. Walker, and James E. Cordes. Systematic implications of morphologically distinct populations of parthenogenetic whiptail lizards: Cnemidophorus tesselatus pattern class D. Herpetologica 52(2):254-262
1997 Walker, J. Martin, Harry L. Taylor, James E. Cordes, and Mark A. Paulissen. Distributional relationships and community assemblages of three members of the parthenogenetic Cnemidophorus tesselatus complex and C. sexlineatus (Squamata: Teiidae) at Higbee, Otero County, Colorado. Herpetological Natural History 5(2):165-174
1997 Walker, J. Martin, James E. Cordes, and Harry L. Taylor. Parthenogenetic Cnemidophorus tesselatus complex (Sauria: Teiidae): A neotype for diploid C. tesselatus (Say, 1823), redescription of the taxon, and description of a new triploid species. Herpetologica 53(2):233-259
1997 Taylor, Harry L., James M. Walker, and James E. Cordes. reproductive characteristics and body size in the parthenogenetic Teiid lizard Cnemidophorus tesselatus: Comparison of sympatric color pattern classes C and E in De Baca County, New Mexico. Copeia 1997(4):863-868
1999 Taylor, Harry L., James M. Walker, and James E. Cordes. Possible phylogenetic constraint on clutch size in the parthenogenetic Teiid lizard Cnemidophorus neotesselatus. Journal of Herpetology 33(2):319-323
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
2011 Weaver, Robert E., Andy P. O'Connor, Wallace, Joshua L., King, Jeffrey M., and Walker, James M. Discovery of the parthenogenetic Colorado Checkered Whiptail, Aspidoscelis neotesselata (Squamata: Teiidae), in Washington state. Northwestern Naturalist 92(3):233-236
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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