Tiger whiptail

Weight

15.5 g – 17.4 gsrc for Weight

Length

8.13 cmsrc for Length

Lifespan

7.8 yearssrc for Lifespan

Diet

Carnivoresrc for Diet

Longest recorded lifespan

8 years

Main food

Not recorded

Habitat

desert, shrublandsrc for Habitat

Young per litter or clutch

1 – 8src for Young per litter or clutch

Age at maturity

8 months – 2.75 yearssrc for Age at maturity

Litters or clutches a year

1 – 3src for Litters or clutches a year

Reproduction

Eggssrc for Reproduction

Active

By day (diurnal)src for Active

Lifestyle

Terrestrialsrc for Lifestyle

Conservation status

Not recorded

Countries on record

Not recorded

Not recorded

No conservation assessment is recorded for this species in our sources. That is not the same as being safe: it has not been matched to an assessment.

1. kingdomAnimalia
2. phylumChordata
3. classReptilia
4. orderSquamata
5. familyTeiidae
6. genusAspidoscelis
7. SpeciesAspidoscelis tigris (Baird & Girard, 1852)

Synonyms Aspidoscelis bacatus, Aspidoscelis cana, Aspidoscelis catalinensis, Aspidoscelis celeripes, Aspidoscelis estebanensis, Aspidoscelis tigris vandenburghi, Cnemidophorus bacatus, Cnemidophorus bartolomas, Cnemidophorus canus, Cnemidophorus catalinensis, Cnemidophorus celeripes, Cnemidophorus dickersonae, Cnemidophorus disparilis, Cnemidophorus estebanensis, Cnemidophorus gadovi, Cnemidophorus gracilis, Cnemidophorus martyris, Cnemidophorus melanostethus, Cnemidophorus punctilinealis, Cnemidophorus stejnegeri, Cnemidophorus tesselatus aethiops, Cnemidophorus tesselatus multiscutatus, Cnemidophorus tesselatus rubidus, Cnemidophorus tigris, Cnemidophorus tigris gracilis, Cnemidophorus tigris mundus, Cnemidophorus tigris punctata, Cnemidophorus tigris punctatus, Cnemidophorus tigris septentrionalis, Cnemidophorus tigris vividus, Cnemidophorus undulatus, Cnemidophorus vandenburghi

Catalogue of LifeiNaturalistITISWikidata

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• Catalogue of Life eXtended Release · CC BY 4.0 · 2026-10-16 XR
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• Global Biotic Interactions (GloBI): interpreted data products · CC0 1.0 · 0.11
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@misc{tiger_whiptail_2026,
  title = {Tiger whiptail (Aspidoscelis tigris)},
  author = {{CreatureData}},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://creaturedata.com/animals/tiger-whiptail},
  note = {Data as of 2026-11-14}
}