#six-lined racerunner

[iridescent-wildlife]

Six-lined Racerunner (Aspidoscelis sexlineatus). Family Teiidae, order Squamata.

Stillwater, Oklahoma, USA. June 2022.

[antiqueanimals]

Grzimek's Animal Life Encyclopedia. Volume 6: Reptiles. Written by Bernard Grzimek. 1984.

1.) Golden spectacled tegu (Gymnophthalmus speciosus)

2.) Six-lined racerunner (Aspidoscelis sexlineatus)

3.) Two-faced neusticurus (Neusticurus bicarinatus)

4.) Yellow-lined Bachia (Bachia flavescens)

5.) Dwarf tegu (Callopistes maculatus)

6.) Giant ameiva (Ameiva ameiva)

7.) Northern caiman lizard (Dracaena guianensis)

8.) Crocodile tegu (Crocodilurus lacertinus)

9.) Gold tegu (Tupinambis teguixin)

[arcticarthropod]

Look at them stripes!!

Inat says they're a six-lined racerunner.

They were very fast

[keithcurrypochy]

Six-lined Racerunner (Aspidoscelis sexlineata). Usually they are just a blur running across the trail but this one seemed to stick around despite our presence. 

Allen David Broussard Catfish Creek Preserve State Park, FL

[thesingingbullfrog]

Six-lined Racerunner

[michael-massa-micon]

Six-lined Racerunner - June 2020 These beautiful lizards are rather common at Payne Creek Campground near Hartwell, Georgia, but that doesn’t mean that they are easy to photograph. They are called Racerunners for a reason. They are usually just a blur that you catch out of the corner of your eye. If you look closely at this image, you will see that the front leg of this Six-lined Racerunner is fully off the ground and back against his body indicating that he was indeed racing past as I captured this image of him. MWM

[michael-massa-micon]

Six-lined Racerunner - July 2020 I know that I recently posted an image of a Six-lined Racerunner (Aspidoscelis Sexlineatus), but I was so pleased– and surprised– to capture another good image of these fast lizards, that I couldn’t resist posting another one. They can run at close to twenty miles per hour for short distances, which means that capturing an image of one is like playing a video game where you are shooting at flying fighter things of one sort or another. I took about thirty images of him as he scurried across the concrete patio in front of our RV. Most of the images have the front half or the back half of him as he races through the frame. One or two look like he is missing limbs as he runs. This one, however, caught him with all feet on the ground, looking back at me as he ran. Maybe he stopped for an instant in his helter-skelter run and I just happened to click on that instant. Or maybe he decided to give me one chance and stopped to pose for this image. Now if only I can catch one of the Skinks out in the open. MWM

[michael-massa-micon]

Six-lined Racerunner - June 2020 There are a lot of little lizards that live in and around the steps between our RV and the gate house at Paynes Creek Campground near Hartwell, Georgia. I have tried many times to get pictures of them. I am sure that some of them are Blue-Tailed Skinks and that others are Five-lined Skinks, which are actually just grown up Blue-Tails. But I wasn’t expecting this very long-tailed guy to walk across the concrete pad right in front of me as Kathy and I were getting ready to leave. Luckily, I was taking my camera with us, so I had my camera in my hands. I got several really good images before he disappeared into the back wall of the pad. I knew he wasn’t a Five-lined Skink because of the really long tail and the fact that he had six lines. It was pretty easy to identify him on line. He is a Six-lined Racerunner (Aspidoscelis Sexlineatus). The article about him noted that he can run up to 18 mph for short distances, which is probably why I haven’t been able to get an image before. MWM