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Reptilia
Squamata (part)
Teiidae
Plateau Spotted Whiptail
Aspidoscelis scalaris
(Cope, 1892)
Current SSAR Comments:
Esquivel-Ramírez et al. (2021, Acta Zoologica 102: 129–142) found that
A. scalaris
and
A.gularis
form separate mtDNA clades, but they did not include samples from near the type locality of
septemvittatus
. Despite treating the two forms as conspecific, Hall (2016, Ph.D. dissertation, University of Texas at Arlington) found strong genetic differentiation in RADseq data between
A. scalaris septemvittatus
and
A. gularis gularis
.
Range maps are based on curated specimens and provided gratis by CNAH.
(Created by Travis W. Taggart; Version: 2023.04.08.10.29.42)
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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:
1892
Cope, Edward D. Color patterns in
Cnemidophorus
. American Naturalist 25():1135-1136
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