Colorado Checkered Whiptail vs. Great Plains Skink

Their records overlap in southeastern Colorado, the whiptail's native range (checked); in Washington the whiptail is an introduced colony near Moses Lake. A: Six pale stripes; pale spots and bars in the dark fields between them: checkered in the Colorado Checkered Whiptail; large and stout; each scale edged in black, no stripes in the Great Plains Skink. B: Tiny grain-like scales in the Colorado Checkered Whiptail; big shiny scales in oblique rows in the Great Plains Skink.

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