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Aspidoscelis exsanguis (Chihuahuan Spotted Whiptail)

Synonyms: Aspidoscelis neavesi (pro parte); Cnemidophorus exsanguis; Cnemidophorus sacki exsanguis

Wikipedia Abstract

The Chihuahuan spotted whiptail (Cnemidophorus exsanguis, syn. Aspidoscelis exsanguis) is a species of lizard native to the United States in southern Arizona, southern New Mexico and southwestern Texas, and northern Mexico in northern Chihuahua and northern Sonora. The species is believed to be the result of extensive hybridization between the little striped whiptail, Cnemidophorus inornatus, the plateau spotted whiptail, Cnemidophorus septemvittatus, and the western Mexico whiptail, Cnemidophorus costatus. It is one of many lizard species known to be parthenogenetic.
View Wikipedia Record: Aspidoscelis exsanguis

Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  15.5 grams
Birth Weight [2]  1 grams
Female Weight [2]  16 grams
Gestation [2]  81 days
Litter Size [2]  3
Litters / Year [2]  1
Reproductive Mode [3]  Oviparous
Snout to Vent Length [2]  3.15 inches (8 cm)
Habitat Substrate [3]  Terrestrial

Ecoregions

Protected Areas

Biodiversity Hotspots

Name Location Endemic Species Website
Madrean Pine-Oak Woodlands Mexico, United States No
Mesoamerica Belize, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama No

Consumers

Parasitized by 
Pharyngodon warneri[4]

External References

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Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Length–weight allometries in lizards, S. Meiri, Journal of Zoology 281 (2010) 218–226
♦ 2Nathan P. Myhrvold, Elita Baldridge, Benjamin Chan, Dhileep Sivam, Daniel L. Freeman, and S. K. Morgan Ernest. 2015. An amniote life-history database to perform comparative analyses with birds, mammals, and reptiles. Ecology 96:3109
♦ 3Meiri, Shai (2019), Data from: Traits of lizards of the world: variation around a successful evolutionary design, Dryad, Dataset, https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.f6t39kj
♦ 4Gibson, D. I., Bray, R. A., & Harris, E. A. (Compilers) (2005). Host-Parasite Database of the Natural History Museum, London
Ecoregions provided by World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF). WildFinder: Online database of species distributions, ver. 01.06 Wildfinder Database
Biodiversity Hotspots provided by Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund
Abstract provided by DBpedia licensed under a Creative Commons License
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0