#1632 · 🦎 reptiles

Western Whiptail

🇳🇱 Western whiptail ·Aspidoscelis tigris

LCleast concern 🦎 Reptiles 📍 outside Europe

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

1. © Jack Wickel · CC BY-NC 4.0
2. © Jack Wickel · CC BY-NC 4.0
3. © Jesus Gordolomi Butterball RC · CC BY-NC 4.0
4. © Kerry Matz · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
5. © Franco Folini · CC BY 4.0
6. © bstewie3333 · CC BY-NC 4.0
7. © uzun · CC BY-NC 4.0
8. © Andrea Kreuzhage · CC BY-NC 4.0
9. © Steve King · CC BY-NC 4.0
10. © Alyssa Semerdjian · CC BY-NC 4.0

what is it?

The western whiptail ( Aspidoscelis tigris ) is a species of lizard in the family Teiidae. The species ranges throughout most of the southwestern United States and northern Mexico. Most of its populations appear stable, and it is not listed as endangered in any of the states comprising its range. It lives in a wide variety of habitats, including deserts and semiarid shrubland, usually in areas with sparse vegetation; it also may be found in woodland, open dry...

base stats

NL sightings 0iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 27,220iNaturalist 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.
27,220 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
Scientifically named by Spencer Fullerton Baird in 1852 (174 years ago).