Colorado Checkered Whiptail vs. Western Earless Lizard

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; blotched; males with two black bars low on the belly side in the Western Earless Lizard. B: A whip-like tail, about twice the body in the Colorado Checkered Whiptail; a shorter tail in the Western Earless Lizard. The Western Earless Lizard has no ear opening.

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