Common Checkered Whiptail vs. New Mexico Whiptail

Both are all-female whiptails of the Rio Grande valley of New Mexico and western Texas (records share 10 one-degree squares). A: Pale stripes cut and joined by black bars and squares: a checkerboard in the Common Checkered Whiptail; seven clean pale stripes, the middle one WAVY; no black bars in the New Mexico Whiptail. The New Mexico Whiptail is smaller (to 3 in head and body) and has small light spots in the dark fields between its stripes.

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