Animalia > Chordata > Squamata > Teiidae > Aspidoscelis > Aspidoscelis gularisAspidoscelis gularis (Eastern Spotted Whiptail; Texas spotted whiptail)Synonyms: Aspidoscelis gularis colossus (heterotypic); Aspidoscelis gularis pallidus (heterotypic); Aspidoscelis gularis semiannulatus (heterotypic); Aspidoscelis gularis semifasciatus (heterotypic); Aspidoscelis gularis septemvittatus (heterotypic); Aspidoscelis scalaris gularis; Cnemidophorus gularis; Cnemidophorus gularis colossus; Cnemidophorus gularis gularis; Cnemidophorus gularis meeki; Cnemidophorus gularis rauni; Cnemidophorus gularis sealous; Cnemidophorus gularis semiannulatus; Cnemidophorus gularis semifasciatus (heterotypic); Cnemidophorus gularis sericeus; Cnemidophorus guttatus (heterotypic); Cnemidophorus scalaris; Cnemidophorus septemvittatus; Cnemidophorus septemvittatus pallidus The Texas spotted whiptail (Cnemidophorus gularis or Aspidocelis gularis) is a species of long-tailed lizard native to the southern United States, in Texas, New Mexico, and Oklahoma, and northern Mexico in Coahuila, Nuevo León, Tamaulipas, San Luis Potosí, Querétaro, and Veracruz. |
| Adult Weight [1] | 13.7 grams | | Birth Weight [2] | 1 grams | | Female Weight [2] | 13 grams |  | | Habitat Substrate [3] | Terrestrial | | | Litter Size [2] | 4 | | Litters / Year [2] | 2 | | Reproductive Mode [3] | Oviparous | | Snout to Vent Length [2] | 2.756 inches (7 cm) |
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Baja California desert |
Mexico |
Nearctic |
Deserts and Xeric Shrublands |
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Bajío dry forests |
Mexico |
Neotropic |
Tropical and Subtropical Dry Broadleaf Forests |
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Balsas dry forests |
Mexico |
Neotropic |
Tropical and Subtropical Dry Broadleaf Forests |
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Central and Southern mixed grasslands |
United States |
Nearctic |
Temperate Grasslands, Savannas, and Shrublands |
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Central forest-grasslands transition |
United States |
Nearctic |
Temperate Grasslands, Savannas, and Shrublands |
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Central Mexican matorral |
Mexico |
Nearctic |
Deserts and Xeric Shrublands |
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Chiapas Depression dry forests |
Mexico |
Neotropic |
Tropical and Subtropical Dry Broadleaf Forests |
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Chihuahuan desert |
Mexico, United States |
Nearctic |
Deserts and Xeric Shrublands |
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East Central Texas forests |
United States |
Nearctic |
Temperate Broadleaf and Mixed Forests |
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Edwards Plateau savanna |
United States |
Nearctic |
Temperate Grasslands, Savannas, and Shrublands |
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Jalisco dry forests |
Mexico |
Neotropic |
Tropical and Subtropical Dry Broadleaf Forests |
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Meseta Central matorral |
Mexico |
Nearctic |
Deserts and Xeric Shrublands |
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Oaxacan montane forests |
Mexico |
Neotropic |
Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests |
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Petén-Veracruz moist forests |
Mexico, Guatemala, Belize |
Neotropic |
Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests |
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Sierra Madre de Oaxaca pine-oak forests |
Mexico |
Neotropic |
Tropical and Subtropical Coniferous Forests |
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Sierra Madre del Sur pine-oak forests |
Mexico |
Neotropic |
Tropical and Subtropical Coniferous Forests |
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Sierra Madre Occidental pine-oak forests |
Mexico, United States |
Nearctic |
Tropical and Subtropical Coniferous Forests |
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Sierra Madre Oriental pine-oak forests |
Mexico, United States |
Nearctic |
Tropical and Subtropical Coniferous Forests |
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Sinaloan dry forests |
Mexico |
Neotropic |
Tropical and Subtropical Dry Broadleaf Forests |
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Sonoran desert |
Mexico, United States |
Nearctic |
Deserts and Xeric Shrublands |
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Southern Pacific dry forests |
Mexico |
Neotropic |
Tropical and Subtropical Dry Broadleaf Forests |
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Tamaulipan matorral |
Mexico |
Nearctic |
Deserts and Xeric Shrublands |
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Tamaulipan mezquital |
Mexico, United States |
Nearctic |
Deserts and Xeric Shrublands |
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Tehuacán Valley matorral |
Mexico |
Neotropic |
Deserts and Xeric Shrublands |
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Texas blackland prairies |
United States |
Nearctic |
Temperate Grasslands, Savannas, and Shrublands |
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Trans-Mexican Volcanic Belt pine-oak forests |
Mexico |
Neotropic |
Tropical and Subtropical Coniferous Forests |
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Veracruz moist forests |
Mexico |
Neotropic |
Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests |
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Western Gulf Coastal grasslands |
Mexico, United States |
Nearctic |
Tropical and Subtropical Grasslands, Savannas, and Shrublands |
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Western short grasslands |
United States |
Nearctic |
Temperate Grasslands, Savannas, and Shrublands |
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Yucatán dry forests |
Mexico |
Neotropic |
Tropical and Subtropical Dry Broadleaf Forests |
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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 ♦ 4The Cactus Ferruginous Pygmy-Owl: Taxonomy, Distribution, and Natural History, Jean-Luc E. Cartron, W. Scott Richardson, Glenn A. Proudfoot, USDA Forest Service Gen. Tech. Rep. RMRS-GTR-43. 2000 ♦ 5Gibson, 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 |
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
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