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Aspidoscelis stictogrammus (BURGER, 1950)

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Higher TaxaTeiidae, Teiinae, Gymnophthalmoidea, Sauria, Squamata (lizards)
Subspecies 
Common NamesE: Giant Spotted Whiptail
S: Huico Manchado Gigante 
SynonymCnemidophorus 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 
DistributionUSA (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.  
ReproductionOviparous. 
TypesHolotype: USNM 132456 
DiagnosisDiagnosis: C. sacki stictogrammus may be distinguished from the other subspecies of C. sackii by the following characteristics: (1) middorsal light stripe usually lacking, consequently distance between the two paravertebral light stripes usually narrower than that between paravertebral and dorsolateral light stripe on each side; (2) four to six scales separating paravertebral light stripes at midbody; (3) dark fields usually with well developed light spots in adults; (4) dark fields extending to area above insertion of hind legs; (5) ventrum immaculate white in juveniles and adults of both sexes; (6) frenocular not in contact with loreal. The coloration of occasional large specimens is very aberrant, predominantly black above with rows of light spots. (Burger 1950)


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CommentDistribution: Not in Coahuila fide Lemos-Espinal et al. 2016. 
EtymologyNamed after Greek stiktos = dotted, dappled and Greek gramme = mark, letter, writing, in reference to the dorsal pattern of this species. 
References
  • Barley, Anthony J.; Tod W. Reeder, Adrián Nieto-Montes de Oca, Charles J. Cole, Robert C. Thomson 2021. A new diploid parthenogenetic whiptail lizard from Sonora, Mexico is the ‘missing link’ in the evolutionary transition to polyploidy. American Naturalist 198 (2): 295-309 - get paper here
  • Bezy, Robert L. 2020. John William Wright— Recollections of Juan Siempre Correcto. Sonoran Herpetologist 33 (3): 83-92
  • Burger, W. Leslie 1950. New, revived, and reallocated names for North American whiptailed lizards, Genus Cnemidophorus. Natural History Miscellanea, Chicago Acad. Sci. (65): 1-9
  • Collins, J.T. and T. W. Taggart 2009. Standard Common and Current Scientific Names for North American Amphibians, Turtles, Reptiles, and Crocodilians, Sixth Edition. Center for North American Herpetology, 48 pp.
  • Crother, B. I. 2000. Scientific and standard English names of amphibians and reptiles of North America north of Mexico, with comments regarding confidence in our understanding. Herpetological Circular 29: 1-82
  • Crother, B. I. (ed.) 2012. Standard Common and Current Scientific Names for North American Amphibians, Turtles, Reptiles, and Crocodilians, Seventh Edition. Herpetological Circular 39: 1-92
  • Degenhardt, William G.; C. W. Painter, and A. H. Price 1996. Amphibians and reptiles of New Mexico. Univ. New Mexico Press, 431 pp.
  • 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. & Lowe, Charles H., Jr. 1953. A new lizard of the genus Cnemidophorus from Arizona. Natural History Miscellanea, Chicago Acad. Sci. (120): 1-8
  • Goldberg, S.R. 1987. Larval Cestodes (Mesocestoides sp.) in the Giant Spotted Whiptail, Cnemidophorus burti stictogrammus Journal of Herpetology 21 (4): 337. - get paper here
  • Hardy, Laurence M. and Charles J. Cole 1998. Morphology of a Sterile, Tetraploid, Hybrid Whiptail Lizard (Squamata: Teiidae: Cnemidophorus). American Museum Novitates 3228: 16 pp. - get paper here
  • Lemos-Espinal JA, Smith GR 2020. A checklist of the amphibians and reptiles of Sinaloa, Mexico with a conservation status summary and comparisons with neighboring states. ZooKeys 931: 85-114 - get paper here
  • Lemos-Espinal JA, Smith GR, Rorabaugh JC 2019. A conservation checklist of the amphibians and reptiles of Sonora, Mexico, with updated species lists. ZooKeys 829: 131-160 - get paper here
  • Lemos-Espinal, Julio A. (ed.) 2015. Amphibians and Reptiles of the US - Mexico Border States / Anfibios y Reptiles de los Estados de la Frontera México - Estados Unidos. Texas A&M University Press, College Station, Texas. x + 614 pp.; ISBN 978-1-62349-306-6. - 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
  • Maslin, T. Paul 1959. The nature of amphibian and reptilian species. Journal of the Arizona Academy of Science 1 (1): 8-17 - get paper here
  • Pilliod, D., Jeffries, M., Arkle, R. and Olson, D. 2024. Climate Futures for Lizards and Snakes in Western North America May Result in New Species Management Issues. Ecol Evol, 14: e70379 - 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
  • Smith, Hobart M. 1946. Handbook of Lizards: Lizards of the United States and of Canada. Comstock, Ithaca, NY, xxii + 557 pp.
  • Stebbins,R.C. 1985. A Field Guide to Western Reptiles and Amphibians, 2nd ed. Houghton Mifflin, Boston
  • Taylor, Edward Harrison 1938. Notes on the herpetological fauna of the Mexican state of Sonora. Univ. Kansas Sci. Bull. 24 (19): 475-503 [1936] - get paper here
  • Tucker, Derek B.; Guarino R. Colli, Lilian G. Giugliano, S. Blair Hedges, Catriona R. Hendry, Emily Moriarty Lemmon, Alan R. Lemmon, Jack W. Sites Jr., R. Alexander Pyron 2016. Methodological congruence in phylogenomic analyses with morphological support for teiid lizards (Sauria: Teiidae). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 103: 75-84 - get paper here
  • Turner, D. S., Van Devender, T. R., Hale, S. F., Zach, R., Martínez, R., Van Devender, R. W., ... & Paholski, C. 2022. Amphibians and reptiles of Rancho Las Playitas area, Sonora, Mexico. Sonoran Herpetologist, 35, 50-59 - get paper here
  • Turner, D.S. 2007. Amphibians and reptiles of Sonoita Creek State Natural Area, Arizona. Sonoran Herpetologist 20 (4):38-42. - get paper here
  • Wright, J.W. 1993. Evolution of the lizards of the genus Cnemidophorus. In: Wright,J.W. & Vitt,L.J. (eds.) Biology of Whiptail lizards (genus Cnemidophorus), pp. 27-81. Oklahoma Mus. Nat. Hist., Norman.
 
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