#1829 · 🦎 reptiles

Plateau Striped Whiptail

Aspidoscelis velox

LCleast concern 🦎 Reptiles 📍 outside Europe

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

1. © Norm · CC BY-NC 4.0
2. © Logan Crees · CC BY-NC 4.0
3. © Lauren Sobkoviak · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
4. Zion National Park, Springdale, UT, US:© masulpriz · CC BY-NC 4.0
5. Petrified Forest National Park, Chambers, AZ, US:© matthew_e_smith · CC BY-NC 4.0
6. Verde River--White Bridge Picnic Area:© BJ Stacey · CC BY-NC 4.0
7. 2450 Sundog Ranch Rd, Prescott, AZ, US:© Sandy Underwood · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
8. Rio Grande del Norte National Monument, Cerro, NM, US:© stinglessbee · CC BY-NC 4.0
9. The Cove Palisades State Park, Terrebonne, OR, US:© Brian Steves · CC BY-NC 4.0
10. Chaffee, Colorado, United States:© Cate Collins · CC BY-NC 4.0

what is it?

The plateau striped whiptail ( Aspidoscelis velox ) is a species of teiid lizard found in Utah, Colorado, Arizona, and New Mexico in the United States.

base stats

NL sightings 0iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 3,601iNaturalist 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.
3,601 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
Scientifically named by Stewart Springer in 1928 (98 years ago).