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Desert Grassland Whiptail
Aspidoscelis uniparens (Wright and Lowe, 1965)

Current SSAR Comments:
Cole et al. (2017, Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 161: 285–321) identified two putative natural hybrids between this species and A. arizonae (as A. inornatus); the laboratory-generated species A. priscillae is a product of hybridization between members of the same two species.

Range maps are based on curated specimens and provided gratis by CNAH.
(Created by Travis W. Taggart; Version: 2023.04.08.10.28.09)
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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:
1965 Wright, John W. and Lowe, Charles H. The rediscovery of Cnemidophorus arizonae Van Denburgh. Journal of the Arizona Academy of Science 3(3):164-168

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