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"Thinking these were Isla Espiritu Santo whiptails, I spent all of my time photographing them and not the ""orange throated whiptails"" beside them, which just happened to be the real endemics. Facepalm. Well it was the first time I had gotten any pictures of these guys, so I guess that is a good consolation prize."
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"Thinking these were Isla Espiritu Santo whiptails, I spent all of my time photographing them and not the ""orange throated whiptails"" beside them, which just happened to be the real endemics. Facepalm. Well it was the first time I had gotten any pictures of these guys, so I guess that is a good consolation prize."
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Dean Leavitt with a Cape Giant Whiptail!
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I've had a really hard time figuring out what the correct/accepted name for this species is. It appears to be a Cape Giant Whiptail (see http://www.californiaherps.com/noncal/baja/bajalizards/pages/a.maxima.html). I think the name should be Aspidoscelis maxima (as on the above link)? Or is it Cnemidophorus maximus (perhaps an older synonym)? Or is it a subspecies of Aspidoscelis tigris, which is what the current taxonomy of iNaturalist sort of implies?
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Female, with damage to tail.
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Desert Grassland or Plateau Striped?
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Missing tail. Caught by TJM.
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Missing tail. Caught by TJM.
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