Aspidoscelis burti (TAYLOR, 1938)
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Aspidoscelis burti
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| Higher Taxa | Teiidae, Teiinae, Gymnophthalmoidea, Sauria, Squamata (lizards) |
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| Common Names | E: Canyon Spotted Whiptail S: Huico Manchado de Cañón E: Giant Spotted Whiptail [stictogrammus] S: Huico Manchado Gigante [stictogrammus] E: Red-backed Whiptail [xanthonotus] S: Huico Manchado Dorsorojo [xanthonotus] |
| Synonym | Cnemidophorus burti TAYLOR 1938: 485 Cnemidophorus burti burti —DUELLMAN & ZWEIFEL 1962: 174 Cnemidophorus burti — STEBBINS 1985: 153 Cnemidophorus burti burti — MASLIN & SECOY 1986 Cnemidophorus burti — LINER 1994 Aspidoscelis burti — REEDER et al. 2002 Aspidoscelis burti burti — LINER & CASAS-ANDREU 2008 Aspidoscelis burti — COLLINS & TAGGART 2009 Aspidoscelis burti — BEZY & COLE et al. 2014 Aspidoscelis burti — BARLEY et al. 2021 Aspidoscelis burti — NICHOLSON et al. 2025 Aspidoscelis burti stictogrammus (BURGER 1950) Cnemidophorus sackii stictogrammus BURGER 1950: 5 Cnemidophorus gularis actolineatus — SMITH 1946: 409 Cnemidophorus sackii stictogrammus — SMITH & TAYLOR 1950: 183 Cnemidophorus stictogrammus — MASLIN 1959 Cnemidophorus burti stictogrammus —DUELLMAN & ZWEIFEL 1962: 176 Cnemidophorus burti stictogrammus — STEBBINS 1985: 153 Cnemidophorus burti stictogrammus — MASLIN & SECOY 1986 Aspidoscelis burti stictogramma — REEDER et al. 2002 Aspidoscelis burti stictogramma — LINER & CASAS-ANDREU 2008 Aspidoscelis burti stictogramma — COLLINS & TAGGART 2009 Aspidoscelis stictogramma — CROTHER et al. 2012 Aspidoscelis stictogramma — LEMOS-ESPINAL 2015 Aspidoscelis stictogramma — CROTHER et al. 2017 Aspidoscelis burti stictogrammus — BARLEY et al. 2021 Aspidoscelis burti stictogrammus — NICHOLSON et al. 2025 Aspidoscelis burti xanthonotus (DUELLMAN & LOWE 1953) Cnemidophorus sacki xanthonotus DUELLMAN & LOWE 1953 Cnemidophorus burti xanthonotus —DUELLMAN & ZWEIFEL 1962: 176 Cnemidophorus burti xanthonotus — STEBBINS 1985: 153 Cnemidophorus burti xanthonotus — MASLIN & SECOY 1986 Cnemidophorus xanthonotus —CROTHER 2000 Aspidoscelis burti xanthonota — REEDER et al. 2002 Aspidoscelis xanthonota — COLLINS & TAGGART 2009 Aspidoscelis xanthonota — ENDERSON et al. 2009 Aspidoscelis xanthonota — CROTHER et al. 2012 Aspidoscelis xanthonota — LEMOS-ESPINAL 2015 Aspidoscelis xanthonota — CROTHER et al. 2017 Aspidoscelis burti xanthonotus — BARLEY et al. 2021 Aspidoscelis burti xanthonotus — NICHOLSON et al. 2025 |
| Distribution | Mexico (Sonora), USA (Arizona) Type locality: La Posa, 10 miles northwest of Guayamas, Sonora (fide SMITH & TAYLOR 1950: 185) stictogrammus (invalid): USA (C Arizona, New Mexico), Mexico (southward through Sonora and probably N Sinaloa, and the northern parts of Chihuahua); Type locality: Yank Springs, 6 miles southeast of Ruby, Santa Cruz County, Arizona. xanthonotus (invalid): USA (Arizona: Ajo Mountains, Pima County to the Sierra Estrella near Phoenix, Maricopa County) Mexico (Sonora); Type locality: Arizona, Pima, north fork Alamo Canyon, Ajo Mts., ca. 30.6 km N international boundary, in Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument. |
| Reproduction | oviparous |
| Types | Holotype: FMNH 100004 (was EHT-HMS 13117) (fide SMITH & TAYLOR 1950: 185) Holotype: USNM 132456 [stictogrammus] Holotype: UMMZ 105426; paratypes: UMMZ, MVZ, UAZ [xanthonotus] |
| Diagnosis | Diagnosis (n=7): Related to C. perplexus, but with a tendeney toward a reversal of the typical color pattern. The young are five-lined; brownish or tan dots on a dark-brown background between much widened, bright, cream-colored, lateral lines, and between the dorsolateral and the broad, lavender, median lines. Most of the older specimens lose practically all trace of the dots and the pair of lateral lines on each side are strongly intensified, while the median becomes dim lavender to reddish in color. The ground color becomes dark or light reddish-brown. (Taylor 1938) Unfortunately we had to temporarily remove additional information as this was scraped by multiple AI companies who sell that data. However, these details, e.g. detailed descriptions (about about 2.09 pages) are available for collaborators and contributors. Please contact us if you need any of this material. |
| Comment | Synonymy partly after SMITH & TAYLOR 1950. Not listed by SMith 1946, Handbook of Lizards. Suspecies: Aspidoscelis burti stictogramma (BURGER 1950) and Aspidoscelis burti xanthonota (DUELLMAN & LOWE 1953) are now considered as valid species. Reference images: see Uetz et al. 2024 for high-resolution reference images for this species. Distribution (stictogrammus): Not in Coahuila fide Lemos-Espinal et al. 2016. NCBI taxonID: 171146 [stictogrammus] RDB speciesID: 11234 [stictogrammus] Etymology (stictogrammus): Named after Greek stiktos = dotted, dappled and Greek gramme = mark, letter, writing, in reference to the dorsal pattern of this species. RDB speciesID: 11239 [xanthonotus] Etymology (xanthonotus): Named after Greek xanthos = orange or yellow and Greek notos = back, in reference to its dorsal color pattern. |
| Etymology | Named after Dr. Charles Earle Burt (1904-1963), American herpetologist. He took his bachelor's degree at Kansas State Agricultural College, and his master's degree (1927) and doctorate (1930) at the University of Michigan. He worked at the American Museum of Natural History (1929-1930) and taught at Trinity College, Waxahachie, Texas (1930-1931), and at Southwestern College, Winfield, Kansas (1932-1944). |
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