Whiptail can refer to: Fish: A common name for Blue grenadier, a species of fish in the genus Macruronus Whiptail catfish, 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. Ameiva - jungle runners Aspidoscelis - northern whiptails Cnemidophorus - southern whiptails Kentropyx - spurred whiptails Whiptail (company), a company that builds solid-state data storage systems Whiptail (plant disorder) "Whiptail", a 1998 Hugo Award-nominated science fiction short story by Robert Reed 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 instead of ncurses California City Whiptails, a professional baseball team "Whiptail" is the code name for the international assassin (played by Hannah Waddingham) in the 2026 action-comedy series Ride or Die on Prime Video.