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Little White Whiptail (Aspidoscelis inornatus gypsi)Threatened





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,

Taxonomy:

»» 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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