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The New Mexico whiptail lizard is a crossbreed of a western whiptail, which lives in the desert, and the little striped whiptail, which favors grasslands. The whiptail engages in mating behavior with other females of its own species, giving rise to the nickname "lesbian lizards".
Western Mexico whiptail are striped lizards, which tend to be active foragers, constantly moving around than lizards with cryptic patterns. [13] It records very high moves per minute or percent time moving values. All whiptail lizards in the genera Aspidoscelis are active at body temperatures between 37 and 40 °C (99 and 104 °F).
Parthenogenesis has been studied extensively in the New Mexico whiptail in the genus Aspidoscelis of which 15 species reproduce exclusively by parthenogenesis. These lizards live in the dry and sometimes harsh climate of the southwestern United States and northern Mexico.
The western whiptail is widespread throughout northern Mexico and the western United States. In the US it can be found in the states of Arizona, California, Colorado, Idaho, Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon, and Utah. [7] It is found in hot dry regions, typically with sparse foliage. It can live in woodland, chaparral, riparian areas, or desert.
Aspidoscelis mexicanus (W. Peters, 1869) – Mexican whiptail; Aspidoscelis motaguae (Sackett, 1941) – giant whiptail; Aspidoscelis neomexicanus (Lowe & Zweifel, 1952) – New Mexico whiptail; Aspidoscelis neotesselatus (Walker, Cordes & H.L. Taylor, 1997) – Colorado checkered whiptail, triploid checkered whiptail
The desert grassland whiptail is mostly found in the deserts of southern to central Arizona and along the Rio Grande river in New Mexico. It is also found in the deserts of northern Mexico. A. uniparens is commonly found in low valleys, grasslands, and slight slopes. Some have argued that the species' range is expanding due to overgrazing.
Federal wildlife officials declared a rare lizard in southeastern New Mexico and West Texas an endangered species Friday, citing future energy development, sand mining and climate change as the ...
Checkered whiptail (Aspidoscelis tesselata) Sierra County, New Mexico. The checkered whiptail (Aspidoscelis tesselata) is a species of lizard found in the southwestern United States in Colorado, Texas and New Mexico, and in northern Mexico in Chihuahua and Coahuila.