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Scientific name Common name Description Image Notes Cnemidophorus sexlineatus: Six-lined racerunner: Adults are 6 to 10.5 inches (15 to 27 cm) in length and colored olive, gray, brown or black with six lighter-colored stripes. [9] Found only in Tuscola County in eastern Michigan, [9] considered a threatened species [7] Plestiodon fasciatus ...
The six-lined racerunner is listed as a species of concern in the states of Michigan and Wisconsin, due to its limited population but otherwise holds no official conservation status. In Michigan , the population is found in a single public game reserve, 322 km separated from the closest known other populations in Indiana. [ 19 ]
In the English language, many animals have different names depending on whether they are male, female, young, domesticated, or in groups. The best-known source of many English words used for collective groupings of animals is The Book of Saint Albans, an essay on hunting published in 1486 and attributed to Juliana Berners. [1]
Cnemidophorus sexlineatus viridis, commonly known as the prairie racerunner, is a subspecies of lizard endemic to the United States. It is a subspecies of Cnemidophorus sexlineatus, which is commonly known as the six-lined racerunner lizard.
A giant pet lizard has acquired tens of thousands of fans online with its wacky and oddly-relatable antics. MacGyver, a red tegu lizard, lives in California with his owners Scott and Ice, who post ...
Occasionally, a mating between a female of one species and a male of another produces a parthenogen, a female that is able to produce viable eggs that are genetically identical to her own cells. The lizards that hatch from these eggs are thus also parthenogens that can again produce identical eggs, resulting in an asexual, clonal population.
Teiidae is a family of Lacertoidean lizards native to the Americas. Members of this family are generally known as whiptails or racerunners; however, tegus also belong to this family.
Amphibians and Reptiles, Michigan Department of Natural Resources Mammals , Michigan Department of Natural Resources State of Michigan - Crayfish Species Checklist , James W. Fetzner Jr., Section of Invertebrate Zoology, Carnegie Museum of Natural History, Pittsburgh, PA, 28 January 2008