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Aspidoscelis marmoratus (Western whiptail; Tiger Whiptail)

Synonyms: Aspidoscelis marmoratus reticuloriens (heterotypic); Aspidoscelis tigris marmorata; Cnemidophorus marmoratus; Cnemidophorus marmoratus reticuloriens; Cnemidophorus tigris marmoratus

Wikipedia Abstract

The Marbled Whiptail (Cnemidophorus marmoratus) is a species of lizard found in the United States, in southern New Mexico and Texas, and in northern Mexico, in Coahuila, Chihuahua and Durango.
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Infraspecies

Aspidoscelis marmoratus marmoratus
Aspidoscelis marmoratus reticuloriens

Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  15.5 grams
Birth Weight [1]  1 grams
Litter Size [1]  3
Litters / Year [1]  1
Maximum Longevity [2]  8 years
Snout to Vent Length [1]  3.15 inches (8 cm)

Ecoregions

Protected Areas

Biodiversity Hotspots

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

Predators

Arizona elegans (arenicola)[3]
Crotalus oreganus lutosus (Great Basin rattlesnake)[4]
Glaucidium brasilianum cactorum (cactus ferruginous pygmy-owl)[5]
Lampropeltis zonata (California Mountain Kingsnake)[6]

Consumers

External References

NatureServe Explorer

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Nathan 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
♦ 2de Magalhaes, J. P., and Costa, J. (2009) A database of vertebrate longevity records and their relation to other life-history traits. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 22(8):1770-1774
♦ 3Food Habit of the Glossy Snake, Arizona elegans, with Comparisons to the Diet of Sympatric Long-nosed Snakes, Rhinocheilus lecontei, Javier A. Rodríguez-Robles, Christopher J. Bell, Harry W. Greene, Journal of Herpetology, Vol. 33, No. 1, pp. 87-92, 1999
♦ 4Feeding ecology of the Great Basin Rattlesnake (Crotalus lutosus, Viperidae), Xavier Glaudas, Tereza Jezkova, and Javier A. Rodríguez-Robles, Can. J. Zool. 86: 723–734 (2008)
♦ 5The 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
♦ 6Feeding Ecology of the California Mountain Kingsnake, Lampropeltis zonata (Colubridae), Harry W. Greene and Javier A. Rodríguez-Robles, Copeia, 2003(2), pp. 308–314
♦ 7Gibson, 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