Table 2: Probable
mechanisms of color change for light-colored species at White Sands National
Monument, and the basis on which those mechanisms were determined.
|
Mechanism of
color change |
Species |
Basis for
conclusion |
Source |
|
Color fixed
in individuals |
Bleached earless lizard (Holbrookia maculata ruthveni ) |
Individuals held in lab with
different-colored substrates do not
change color. |
Bundy,
1955; Lowe and Norris, 1956 |
|
|
Cowles prairie lizard (Sceloporus undulatus cowlesi) |
Individuals held in lab with different-colored
substrates do not change color. |
Lowe
and Norris, 1956 |
|
|
Little striped Whiptail (Cnemidophorus inornatus) |
Individuals held in lab with
different-colored substrates do not
change color. |
Lowe
and Norris, 1956 |
|
|
Apache pocket mouse (Perognathus flavescens apachii) |
Dark Individuals of P. intermedius ater from Valley of
Fires held in lab with different-colored substrates do not change color. |
Benson,
1933 |
|
|
Camel cricket (Ammobaenites phrixocnemoides arenicolus) |
Assertion by author. |
Stroud,
1950 |
|
|
Camel cricket (Daihinoides hastiferum larvale) |
Assertion by author. |
Stroud,
1950 |
|
Color changes rapidly to match substrate |
Spadefoot toad (Scaphiopus couchii) |
Individuals in lab do change color. |
Stroud,
1949 |
|
Color
changes at molt to match substrate |
Locustid (Cibolacris parviceps arida) |
Assertion by author. |
Stroud,
1950 |
|
Color
derived from environment |
Lycosid spider |
White color rubs off easily to reveal
brown underneath; color may still be internally derived. |
Bugbee,
1942 |
Benson
SB, 1933. Concealing coloration among some desert rodents of the southwestern
United States. Univ. Calif. Pub. Zool. 40:1-70.
Bugbee
RE, 1942. Notes on animal occurrence and activity in the White Sands National
Monument, New Mexico. Trans. Kans. Acad. Sci. 45:315-321.
Bundy
RE, 1955. Color Variation in Two Species of Lizards (Phrynosoma modestum and Holbrookia
maculata subspecies) (Ph.D.): University of Wisconsin.
Lowe
CH, Norris KS, 1956. A subspecies of the lizard Sceloporus undulatus from the White Sands of New Mexico. Herpetologica
12:125-127.
Stroud
CP, 1949. A white spade-foot toad from the New Mexico White Sands. Copeia
1949:232.
Stroud
CP, 1950. A survey of the insects of White Sands National Monument, Tularosa
Basin, New Mexico. Am. Midl. Nat. 44:659-677.