Description: Aspidoscelis tesselata, western base of the Guadalupe Mountain near Pup Canyon, 32.369 -105.082, Otero County, New Mexico, 20 Aug 2013. Creosote and ocotillo shrubland, with Dasylirion wheeleri, Yucca baccata, Tiquilia hispidissima, Coryphantha macromeris, Cylindropuntia imbricata, Cylindropuntia leptocaulis, Echinocactus horizonthalonius, Echinocereus dasyacanthus, Opuntia phaeacantha, Ephedra aspera, Vachellia vernicosa, Fouquieria splendens, Krameria erecta, Bouteloua eriopoda, Dasyochloa pulchella, Enneapogon desvauxii, Sporobolus, Sporobolus nealleyi, Astrolepis cochisensis, Larrea tridentata, etc. Date: 20 August 2013, 10:43. Source:
Aspidoscelis tesselata. Author:
Patrick Alexander from Las Cruces, NM.