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Belding's Orange-throated Whiptail

Aspidoscelis hyperythra beldingi

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33.0631, -117.067

Field Notes

Description:

"Slim-bodied with a long slender tail, a thin snout, and large symmetrical head plates. The tail is blue in juveniles, fading to gray in adults. It can reach up to two times the length of the body. The back is unspotted and black, dark brown, or grayish with 6 or fewer pale yellow or whitish stripes. The belly is pale blue-gray or whitish with large, smooth, rectangular scales in 8 lengthwise rows.
Scales on the back are small and granular, and scales on the tail are keeled."

Habitat:

Lake Hodges trail. "Ranges from the Santa Ana River in Orange County, and near Colton in San Bernardino County, west of the Peninsular ranges, south throughout the Baja Peninsula. From sea level to aproximately 2,000 ft. (610 m)."

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