Common Checkered Whiptail vs. Plateau Striped Whiptail
Both are all-female whiptails of northern New Mexico (records share 8 one-degree squares). A: Pale stripes cut and joined by black bars and squares: a checkerboard in the Common Checkered Whiptail; six or seven clean pale stripes, no spots between them in the Plateau Striped Whiptail. B: Brownish in the Common Checkered Whiptail; pale blue, brightest in the young in the Plateau Striped Whiptail. In Colorado they live apart: the Plateau Striped Whiptail on the western slope, the Common Checkered Whiptail in the southeast.
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