Common Checkered Whiptail

Aspidoscelis tesselatus (Say, 1822)

Also calledHuico Teselado (spa)

First described in: Say, T. In James, E. Account of an expedition from Pittsburgh to the Rocky Mountains, performed in the years 1819, ’20, by order of the Hon. J. C. Calhoun, Secretary of War, under the command of Major Stephen H. Long. Vol. 2.

This species is catalogued but little written about: there is no encyclopaedia article for it yet. What the world knows is in its records below and in the literature linked under “In the stacks”.