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title: "Colorado Checkered Whiptail"
description: "Aspidoscelis neotesselatus — Reptiles. The Colorado checkered whiptail or triploid checkered whiptail (Aspidoscelis neotesselatus) is a species of teiid lizard found in Colorado in the United States."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/animal/colorado-checkered-whiptail
last_updated: 2026-09-20
---

# Colorado Checkered Whiptail

> Aspidoscelis neotesselatus — Reptiles. The Colorado checkered whiptail or triploid checkered whiptail (Aspidoscelis neotesselatus) is a species of teiid lizard found in Colorado in the United States.

- Scientific name: *Aspidoscelis neotesselatus*
- Category: `reptiles` (Reptiles)
- Habitats: unknown
- iNaturalist observations: 766
- iNaturalist taxon: [717857](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/717857)

## Names

- en: Colorado Checkered Whiptail

## Countries with the most observations

US (740)

## Summary

The Colorado checkered whiptail or triploid checkered whiptail (Aspidoscelis neotesselatus) is a species of teiid lizard found in Colorado in the United States.

Text: Wikipedia (en), CC BY-SA 4.0 — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colorado_checkered_whiptail

## Photo

![Colorado Checkered Whiptail](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/colorado-checkered-whiptail/medium.jpg)

Photo: Joshua Smith · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/290481248

## Machine access

`GET https://animalchecklist.com/api/v1/animals/colorado-checkered-whiptail?lang=en` — see [openapi.json](https://animalchecklist.com/openapi.json).