Little White Whiptail (Aspidoscelis inornatus gypsi)
Description: A long neck and body, powerful legs and a scaled pointed head, a pale blue lizard, whose underside is white.
Habitat: This lizard is restricted or nearly restricted to dunes of white sand.It has been reported finding individuals as far as 50 m from the dunes, on what he called "adobe soil."
Range: The range includes the White Sands region, south-central New Mexico. The White Sands region encompasses about 712 square kilometers, and the lizard inhabits only a portion of this area.
Found in these States:
NM
Diet: spiders, larvae of moths, butterflies, and beetles.
Reproduction: After copulation in late spring or early summer, one to six eggs are laid. These emerge some 60 to 75 days later.
Status: Not Available, but due to the range being restricted to just the small area of the White Sands Region in New Mexico, it is considered threatened,
»» Kingdom: Animalia - Animals
»» Phylum: Chordata - Chordates
»» Subphylum: Vertebrata - Vertebrates
»» Class: Reptilia - Reptiles
»» Order: Squamata - Lizards
»» Family: Teiidae - Whiptails & Racerunner Lizards
»» Genus: Aspidoscelis
»» Species: Aspidoscelis inornatus - Little Striped Whiptail
»» Subspecies: Aspidoscelis inornatus gypsi - Little White Whiptail
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