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Aspidoscelis velox (SPRINGER, 1928)

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Higher TaxaTeiidae, Teiinae, Gymnophthalmoidea, Sauria, Squamata (lizards)
Subspecies 
Common NamesE: Plateau Striped Whiptail 
SynonymCnemidophorus gularis velox SPRINGER 1928: 102
Cnemidophorus velox — STEBBINS 1985: 156
Cnemidophorus velox — MASLIN & SECOY 1986
Cnemidophorus velox — STUART 1998
Cnemidophorus velox — CROTHER 2000
Cnemidophorus sackii innotatus BURGER (fide MASLIN & SECOY 1986)
Aspidoscelis velox — REEDER et al. 2002
Aspidoscelis velos — WERNING 2012 (in error) 
DistributionUSA (SE Utah, Colorado, N Arizona, N New Mexico). Introduced and established at Cove Palisades State Park, Jefferson County, Oregon (fide STEBBINS 1985).

Type locality: “Oraibi, Arizona” and “Pueblo Bonito, New Mexico”. Restricted to Pueblo Bonito, San Juan County, N. Mexico, by SMITH & TYALOR 1950: 184.  
ReproductionOviparous. Triploid parthenogenetic species. 
TypesHolotype: USNM 3032
Holotype: UMMZ 73323 [innotatus] 
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CommentSynonymy: after SPRINGER 1950, cited in KLUGE 1984: 22. SMITH & TYALOR 1950 listed this species as a synonym of Cnemidophorus inornatus. WRIGHT (1993) applied the name C. velox to triploid parthenogens and treated C. innotatus as the name of a separate diploid species. See also CROTHER 2000 for further discussion, and Cole et al. 2019 who returned A. innotatus to the synonymy of A. velox. 
EtymologyNamed after Latin velox = speedy or swift, in reference to its running speed. 
References
  • Bezy, Robert L. 2020. John William Wright— Recollections of Juan Siempre Correcto. Sonoran Herpetologist 33 (3): 83-92
  • Bezy, Robert L. and Charles J. Cole 2014. Amphibians and Reptiles of the Madrean Archipelago of Arizona and New Mexico. American Museum Novitates (3810): 1-24 - get paper here
  • Cole, Charles J.; James E. Cordes & James M. Walker 2019. Karyotypes of the North American Parthenogenetic Whiptail Lizard Aspidoscelis velox, and Return of Aspidoscelis innotatus to the Synonymy of A. velox (Reptilia: Squamata: Teiidae). American Museum Novitates 2019 (3936): 1-8 - get paper here
  • Cordes, James E. and James M. Walker 2006. Evolutionary and Systematic Implications of Skin Histocompatibility Among Parthenogenetic Teiid Lizards: Three Color Pattern Classes of Aspidoscelis dixoni and One of Aspidoscelis tesselata. Copeia, 2006 (1):14-26 - get paper here
  • Cordes, James E. and James M. Walker. 2013. Aspidoscelis velox (plateau striped whiptail) bifurcation. Herpetological Review 44 (2): 319 - get paper here
  • 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
  • Cuellar, Orlando 1977. Genetic homogeneity and speciation in the parthenogenetic lizards Cnemidophorus velox and C. neomexicanus: Evidence from intraspecific histocompatibility. Evolution 31 (1): 24-31 - get paper here
  • Cuellar, Orlando;Wright, John W. 1992. Isogenicity in the unisexual lizard Cnemidophorus velox. C.R. Soc. Biog_ogr. 68 (4): 157-160
  • 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
  • Jones, K.B.; Abbas, D.R. & Bergstedt, T. 1981. Herpetological records from Central and Northeastern Arizona. Herpetological Review 12 (1): 16 - get paper here
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  • Kluge, Arnold G. 1984. Type-specimens of reptiles in the University of Michigan Museum of Zoology. [type catalogue] Miscellaneous publications, Museum of Zoology, University of Michigan (167): 1-85 - get paper here
  • KUSAKA, C. M., UTSUMI, K. L., CORDES, J. E., BARLEY, A. J., THOMSON, R. C., LIVO, L. J., & WALKER, J. M. 2024. ASPIDOSCELIS VELOX (PLATEAU STRIPED WHIPTAIL) IN JEFFERSON COUNTY, OREGON, USA: PERSISTENCE OF AN INTRODUCED TRIPLOID PARTHENOGENETIC SPECIES OF LIZARD. Western Wildlife 11:42–49 - get paper here
  • Lowe, Charles H., Jr 1955. A new species of whiptailed lizard (Genus Cnemidophorus) from the Colorado Plateau of Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado, and Utah. Breviora (47): 1-7 - get paper here
  • Lowe, Charles H., Jr;Wright, John W.;Cole, Charles J.;Bezy, Robert L. 1970. Chromosomes and evolution of the species groups of Cnemidophorus (Reptilia: Teiidae). Systematic Zoology 19: 128-141 - get paper here
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  • 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
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  • Smith, Hobart M.;Thompson, Dorian 1993. Four reptiles newly recorded from Ouray County, Colorado. Bull. Chicago Herp. Soc. 28 (4): 78-79 - get paper here
  • Springer, Stewart 1928. An annotated list of the lizards of Lee's Ferry, Arizona. Copeia 1928 (169): 100-104 - get paper here
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  • Stuart, James N. 1998. Cnemidophorus velox. Catalogue of American Amphibians and Reptiles (656): 1-6. - get paper here
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  • Tanner, Vasco M.;Hayward, C. Lynn 1934. A biological study of the La Sal Mountains, Utah report No. 1 (Ecology). Proceedings of the Utah Academy of Sciences, Arts, and Letters 11: 209-235
  • Taylor, Harry L. 1965. Morphological variation in selected populations of the teiid lizards Cnemidophorus velox and Cnemidophorus inornatus. University of Colorado Studies, Series in Bioogy (21): 1-27
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  • 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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