Whiptail can refer to:
* Fish:
** A common name for
Blue grenadier
The blue grenadier (also known as hoki, blue hake, New Zealand whiptail, or whiptail hake, ''Macruronus novaezelandiae'') is a merluccid hake of the family Merlucciidae found around southern Australia and New Zealand, as well as off both the At ...
, a species of fish in the genus ''Macruronus''
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Whiptail catfish
Whiptail catfish (''Dasyloricaria filamentosa'') is a species of armored catfish endemic to Colombia where it is found in the Magdalena River basin and is suspected to also occur in the Catatumbo River. This species grows to a length of SL. ...
, a common name for the genus of fish ''Rineloricaria''
* A wide variety of long-tailed, New World lizard species from several genera in the
Teiidae family; also known as racerunners and jungle runners.
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Ameiva'' - jungle runners
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Aspidoscelis'' - northern whiptails
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Cnemidophorus
''Cnemidophorus'' is a genus of lizards in the family Teiidae. Species in the genus ''Cnemidophorus'' are commonly referred to as whiptail lizards or racerunners. The genus is endemic to South America, Central America, and the West Indies.
Ta ...
'' - southern whiptails
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Kentropyx'' - spurred whiptails
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Whiptail (company)
Whiptail Technologies LLC, was previously a privately held company that builds data storage systems out of solid-state drive components. Whiptail designed and commercialized the use of NAND flash memory as a replacement for hard disk drives in lar ...
, a company that builds solid-state data storage systems
* Whiptail (plant disorder)
* Whiptail (comics), a series of recurring adversaries in the comic book series ''
Dynamo 5''
*Whiptail (software), in Unix-like shell scripting, a dialog replacement using
Newt
A newt is a salamander in the subfamily Pleurodelinae. The terrestrial juvenile phase is called an eft. Unlike other members of the family Salamandridae, newts are semiaquatic, alternating between aquatic and terrestrial habitats. Not all aqua ...
instead of
ncurses
ncurses (new curses) is a programming library providing an application programming interface (API) that allows the programmer to write text-based user interfaces (TUI) in a terminal-independent manner. It is a toolkit for developing " GUI-li ...
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California City Whiptails, a professional baseball team
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