Aspidoscelis townsendae
Cole, Baumann, Taylor, Bobon, Ho, Neaves, and Baumann, 2023
SSAR 9th Edition Comments:
This newly named species was generated in the laboratory by hybridization between females of A. exsanguis and males of A. gularis and is not known to occur in the wild (Cole et al., 2023, Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 163: 247–279).
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Province/State Distribution:
USA: Missouri
First instance(s) of published English names:
No historic English names have been assigned to this taxon yet.
Catalog of American Amphibians and Reptiles
The Reptile Database
GenBank
USGS - Nonindigenous Aquatic Species Database
Selected References:
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1970
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Gorman, George C. Chromosomes and the systematics of the family Teiidae (Sauria, Reptilia). Copeia 1970(2):230-245
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2002
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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
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2023
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Cole, Charles J., Diana P. Baumann, Harry L. Taylor, Nadine Bobon, David V. Ho, William B. Neaves, and Peter Baumann. Reticulate phylogeny: A new tetraploid parthenogenetic
whiptail lizard derived from hybridization among four
bisexual ancestral species of Aspidoscelis
(Reptilia: Squamata: Teiidae) Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 163(7):247-279
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