Animalia > Chordata > Squamata > Teiidae > Cnemidophorus > Cnemidophorus ruthveni

Cnemidophorus ruthveni (Laurent's Whiptail)

Synonyms: Cnemidophorus murinus ruthveni

Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  33.5 grams
Male Weight [2]  34 grams
Litter Size [2]  2
Snout to Vent Length [2]  4.331 inches (11 cm)

Biodiversity Hotspots

Name Location Endemic Species Website
Caribbean Islands Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Aruba, Bahamas, Barbados, Cayman Islands, Cuba, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Haiti, Grenada, Guadeloupe, Jamaica, Martinique, Montserrat, Netherlands Antilles, Puerto Rico, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent And The Grenadines, Trinidad and Tobago, Turks And Caicos Islands, Virgin Islands - British, Virgin Islands - U.S. Yes

Prey / Diet

Prey / Diet Overlap

Competing SpeciesCommon Prey Count
Hylophilus flavipes (Scrub Greenlet)1
Iguana iguana (Common Green Iguana)3
Patagioenas leucocephala (White-crowned Pigeon)1
Phaeomyias murina (Mouse-colored Tyrannulet)1

External References

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
♦ 3Testing Models of Optimal Diet Assembly by the Generalist Herbivorous Lizard Cnemidophorus murinus, M. Denise Dearing and Jos. J. Schall, Ecology, 73(3), 1992, pp. 845-858
Biodiversity Hotspots provided by Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund
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