Animalia > Chordata > Squamata > Teiidae > Aspidoscelis > Aspidoscelis velox

Aspidoscelis velox (Plateau Striped Whiptail)

Synonyms: Cnemidophorus gularis velox (heterotypic); Cnemidophorus innotatus; Cnemidophorus sackii innnotatus; Cnemidophorus velox

Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  12 grams
Birth Weight [1]  1 grams
Female Weight [1]  12 grams
Habitat Substrate [2]  Terrestrial
Litter Size [1]  4
Litters / Year [1]  2
Reproductive Mode [2]  Oviparous
Snout to Vent Length [1]  3.15 inches (8 cm)

Ecoregions

Name Countries Ecozone Biome Species Report Climate Land
Use
Arizona Mountains forests United States Nearctic Temperate Coniferous Forests
Colorado Plateau shrublands United States Nearctic Deserts and Xeric Shrublands
Colorado Rockies forests United States Nearctic Temperate Coniferous Forests

Protected Areas

External References

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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
2Meiri, 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
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