1.【动】长尾鳕
1.a lizard with a long thin tail.
1.Since the 1960s scientists have known that some species of whiptail lizards need a male even less than a fish needs a bicycle.
从1960年代起，科学家就已经知道某些鞭尾蜥物种无需雄性繁殖后代，就像鱼不需要自行车一样。
2.A comparison of chromosomes in the gametes of a related, sexually-producing lizard species (above) and the whiptail (below).
配子（精子或卵子——译注）中的染色体对比。上方是一种两性繁殖的蜥蜴，下方是鞭尾蜥蜴。
3.The female whiptail lizards are doing it for themselves with the unique ability to produce asexually.
雌性鞭尾蜥蜴（whiptaillizards）有着独特的无性繁殖能力，可以自己繁殖后代。
4.markings are darker and more marked than in western whiptail; from southeastern Colorado to eastern Chihuahua .
比西部鞭尾蜥蜴的斑纹更暗更多；产于从科罗拉多东南部到奇瓦瓦的东部地区。