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Topic Categories: AMNH Subway Art • My Pictures • NYC Through My Eye • NYC life • Photography
Posted on: February 28, 2008 7:59 PM, by "GrrlScientist"
tags: whiptail lizard, Cnemidophorus species, subway art, AMNH, NYC, NYCLife
I think this is a whiptail lizard, Cnemidophorus species (can you name the species?)
as portrayed in tiles on the stairway of the NYC subway stop (A-B-C)
at 81st and Central Park West. (ISO, no zoom, no flash).
Image: GrrlScientist 2008. [wallpaper size].
Read more about the AMNH tile artworks and see the AMNH tile artworks photographic archives -- with all the animals identified.
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Comments
The physical form is a whiptail lizard, but I don't know if there are any solid green ones. I've surfed the internet and haven't found an answer. My first impression was a baby iguana, but that may just be due to my experience in the pet trade. Iguanas are very common in the pet trade and whiptails much less so.
Posted by: JPS | February 29, 2008 1:39 AM
The tail looks like a whiptail, but the body scales are too big. I'd have to say that it looks more like a hatchling Knight Anole (Anolis equestris) than anything else.
Posted by: carel | February 29, 2008 1:21 PM