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  Name Desert Grassland Whiptail Lizard
  Regnum Animal ia
  Phylum Chordata
  Classis Reptilia
  Ordo Squamata
  Subordo Sauria
  Familia Teiidae
  Genus Cnemidophorus
  Species '''''C uniparens'''''
  Binomial ''Cnemidophorus uniparens''
  Binomial Authority Wright and Lowe, 1965


The Desert Grassland Whiptail lizard (''Cnemidophorus uniparens'') is an all-female species. These reptiles reproduce by Parthenogenesis ; eggs undergo a chromosome doubling after meiosis and develop into lizards without being fertilized. However, ovulation is enhanced by courtship and mating (pseudocopulation) rituals that imitate the behavior of closely related species that reproduce sexually.