#1821 · 🦎 reptiles

Chihuahuan Spotted Whiptail

Aspidoscelis exsanguis

LCleast concern 🦎 Reptiles 📍 outside Europe

10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences

1. © J. N. Stuart · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
2. © John Rosford · CC BY 4.0
3. © Joe Girgente · CC BY-NC 4.0
4. © Fern Crossway · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
5. © Tom Forwood Jr. · CC BY-NC 4.0
6. Rio Rancho, NM, USA:© Cathy S · CC BY-NC 4.0
7. Chaves County, US-NM, US:© Drew R. Davis, Ph.D. · CC BY-NC 4.0
8. Las Animas County, CO, USA:© williampaulwhite17 · CC BY-NC 4.0
9. Doña Ana County, US-NM, US:© no rights reserved · CC0
10. Cedar Crest:© manichols505 · CC BY-NC 4.0

what is it?

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.

base stats

NL sightings 0iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 3,811iNaturalist observations
threat LCleast concern

Bars compare against all animals on log scales: up to 300,000 Dutch and 600,000 worldwide sightings (the most-seen species), 150 t (blue whale), 30 m and 400 years (Greenland shark).

fun facts

No confirmed wild sightings in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: you'd have to travel for this one.
3,811 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
Scientifically named by Charles Herbert Lowe in 1956 (70 years ago).