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Common Spotted Whiptail

🇳🇱 Texas spotted whiptail ·Aspidoscelis gularis

LCleast concern 🦎 Reptiles 📍 outside Europe
10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences
  1. 1. © Art Mur · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
  2. 2. © Michael Price · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
  3. 3. © Kenneth Bader · CC BY-NC 4.0
  4. 4. © Ashley Wahlberg · CC BY-NC 4.0
  5. 5. © Ken-ichi Ueda · CC BY 4.0
  6. 6. © serracaris · CC BY-NC 4.0
  7. 7. © Bill Carrell · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
  8. 8. © Sam Kieschnick · CC BY 4.0
  9. 9. © cameralenswrangler · CC BY-NC 4.0
  10. 10. © Nicholas Cowey · CC BY-NC 4.0
Common Spotted Whiptail, photo 1 of 10
1/10 © Art Mur · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0

what is it?

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.

base stats

  • NL sightings 0iNaturalist, research grade
  • worldwide 21,302iNaturalist 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.
  • 21,302 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
  • Scientifically named by Spencer Fullerton Baird in 1852 (174 years ago).

fact sheet

English
Common Spotted Whiptail
Nederlands
Texas spotted whiptail
scientific name
Aspidoscelis gularis
class
Reptilia
order
Squamata
family
Teiidae
IUCN Red List
LC · least concern
sightings in NL
0
sightings worldwide
21,302
GBIF records in NL
0
weight
—
length
—
lifespan
—
named
1852 by Spencer Fullerton Baird

IUCN in Dutch: niet bedreigd. Blank means the sources don't say.

relatives· Teiidae

Sources: iNaturalist taxon 73669, Wikidata Q2866843, GBIF 2472239, Wikipedia (EN). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.

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