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Aspidoscelis calidipes (DUELLMAN, 1955)

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Higher TaxaTeiidae, Teiinae, Gymnophthalmoidea, Sauria, Squamata (lizards)
Subspecies 
Common NamesE: Tepalcatepec Valley Whiptail
S: Ticuiliches 
SynonymCnemidophorus calidipes DUELLMAN 1955
Cnemidophorus calidipes —DUELLMAN & ZWEIFEL 1962: 177
Cnemidophorus calidipes — MASLIN & SECOY 1986
Cnemidophorus calidipes — LINER 1994
Aspidoscelis calidipes — REEDER et al. 2002
Aspidoscelis calidipes — LINER & CASAS-ANDREU 2008 
DistributionMexico (Michoacán, Guerrero)

Type locality: Capirio, 1200 feet elevation, on the Río Tepalcatepec, Michoacán, Mexico.  
Reproductionoviparous 
TypesHolotype: UMMZ 112672; paratypes: UMMZ 
DiagnosisUnfortunately we had to temporarily remove additional information as this was scraped by multiple AI companies who sell that data. These details, e.g. detailed descriptions are available for collaborators and contributors. We will relaease that material sometime next year. Please contact us if you need any of this data earlier than that. 
CommentCnemidophorus calidipes shows an ontogenetic color change from striped to cross-banded/speckled (see Figure 2 in Duellman 1955: 5). 
EtymologyNamed after Latin calidus, warm, hot + Latin pes, foot. [“...The specific name... alludes to the heat of the substrate as well as to the speed of the lizard...”]. 
References
  • Barley, A. J., Nieto-Montes de Oca, A., Reeder, T. W., Manríquez-Morán, N. L., Arenas Monroy, J. C., Hernández-Gallegos, O., & Thomson, R. C. 2019. Complex patterns of hybridization and introgression across evolutionary timescales in Mexican whiptail lizards (Aspidoscelis). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 132, 284–295 - get paper here
  • Duellman, W. E., & ZWEIFEL, R. G. 1962. A synopsis of the lizards of the sexlineatus group (genus Cnemidophorus). Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist. 123: 155-210. - get paper here
  • Duellman, William E. 1955. A new whiptail lizard, genus Chemnidophorus, from Mexico. Occasional Papers of the Museum of Zoology, University of Michigan (574): 1-7 - get paper here
  • Duellman, William E. 1960. Variation, distribution, and ecolgy of the Mexican teiid lizard, Cnemidophorus calidipes. Copeia 1960 (2): 97-101 - get paper here
  • Güizado-Rodríguez, Martha Anahí, Lorena Reyes-Vaquero, and Gustavo Casas-Andreu 2014. Thermoregulation by a population of Aspidoscelis calidipes from Apatzingán, Michoacán, Mexico. Southwestern Naturalist Mar 2014, Vol. 59, No. 1: 132-135. - get paper here
  • Maslin, T. & Secoy, D.M. 1986. A checklist of the lizard genus Cnemidophorus (Teiidae). Contr. Zool. Univ. Colorado Mus. 1: 1-60
  • Palacios-Aguilar, Ricardo & OSCAR FLORES-VILLELA 2018. An updated checklist of the herpetofauna from Guerrero, Mexico. Zootaxa 4422 (1): 1-24 - get paper here
  • Raya-García, Ernesto; Ireri Suazo-Ortuño, and Javier Alvarado-Díaz 2015. Diet of the Tepalcatepec Valley whiptail, Aspidoscelis calidipes (Squamata: Teiidae), in Michoacán, México. Southwestern Naturalist Mar 2015, Vol. 60, No. 1: 127-130 - get paper here
  • REEDER, T.W.; CHARLES J. COLE AND HERBERT C. DESSAUER 2002. Phylogenetic Relationships of Whiptail Lizards of the Genus Cnemidophorus (Squamata: Teiidae): A Test of Monophyly, Reevaluation of Karyotypic Evolution, and Review of Hybrid Origins. American Museum Novitates 3365: 1-64 - get paper here
  • Walker, James M. and Edmundo Perez-Ramos. 2010. Aspidoscelis calidipes: Reproduction. Herpetological Review 41 (3): 350 - get paper here
 
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