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Cnemidophorus lemniscatus

1 Species ID Suggestions

bayucca
bayucca 11 years ago
Raunbow Whiptail
Cnemidophorus lemniscatus Rainbow Whiptail


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5 Comments

rutasandinas
rutasandinas 11 years ago

Thanks @Maria dB

rutasandinas
rutasandinas 11 years ago

Thanks ID @Bayucca ::

Maria dB
Maria dB 11 years ago

Nice pastel colors on this lizard

bayucca
bayucca 11 years ago

Sorry: Common name should be Rainbow Whiptail (misspelling)!

bayucca
bayucca 11 years ago

I think it is a male Cnemidophorus lemniscatus. Other candidate would be Cnemidophorus deppei, however, accodring to the some rare sources on the net this one is mostly found in Central America. In my eyes Deppei should also have some more blue on the head, meaning, almost the whole head is blue.
I added some links to compare. Careful! I do not now how accurate all these IDs are (the first one seems to be correct)!
http://calphotos.berkeley.edu/cgi/img_qu...
One from Suriname: http://www.flickr.com/photos/32688820@N0...
http://reptile-database.reptarium.cz/spe...
http://www.reptilienmanager.de/tuepfel_r...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rainbow_Whi...

rutasandinas
Spotted by
rutasandinas

Santander, Colombia

Spotted on Sep 16, 2012
Submitted on Sep 16, 2012

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