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Reptilia
Squamata (part)
Teiidae
Townsend’s Whiptail
Aspidoscelis townsendae
Cole, Baumann, Taylor, Bobon, Ho, Neaves, and Baumann, 2023
Current SSAR 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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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:
2023
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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