Species:
Aspidoscelis gypsi
Little White Whiptail
May 26, 2008
White Sands National Monument, Otero County, New Mexico

I saw two or three of these colorful-in-a-pastel-sort-of-way whiptails as they noodled around in the white sand dunes. Unfortunately none of them had any interest in staying in one place for more than a second or two, and I was somewhat impatient to go look for the famous white lizards of White Sands, so I ended up with only cruddy whiptail pictures.
They're called "Little White Whiptails" because they are paler than the closely related Aspidoscelis inornata, of which they were once considered a subspecies.


