Ameiva
| Ameiva | |
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| Ameiva fuscata in Dominica. | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Order: | Squamata |
| Family: | Teiidae |
| Genus: | Ameiva F. Meyer, 1795 |
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Ameiva, commonly called jungle-runners, is a genus of whiptail lizards that belongs to the family Teiidae.
Geographic range
Member species of the genus Ameiva are found in South America, Central America, Mexico, and throughout various islands of the Caribbean.
Additionally, Ameiva ameiva has been introduced to Florida in the United States.[1]
Species
Sourced from "The Reptile Database".[2]
- Ameiva ameiva (Linnaeus, 1758) – giant ameiva, green ameiva, Amazon racerunner
- Ameiva anomala Echternacht, 1977 – Echternacht's ameiva
- Ameiva atrigularis (Garman, 1887) – giant ameiva, Amazon racerunner
- Ameiva auberi Cocteau, 1838 – Auber's ameiva
- Ameiva bifrontata Cope, 1862 – Cope's ameiva
- Ameiva bridgesii (Cope, 1869) – Bridge's ameiva
- Ameiva chaitzami Stuart, 1942 – Chaitzam's ameiva
- Ameiva chrysolaema Cope, 1868 – common ameiva
- Ameiva cineracea † (Barbour & Noble, 1915) – Guadeloupe ameiva (extinct)
- Ameiva corax Censky & Paulson, 1992 – Censky's ameiva
- Ameiva corvina Cope, 1861 – Sombrero ameiva
- Ameiva dorsalis Gray, 1838 – Jamaica ameiva
- Ameiva edracantha Bocourt, 1874 – Bocourt's ameiva
- Ameiva erythrocephala Daudin, 1802 – St. Christopher ameiva
- Ameiva exsul Cope, 1862 – (common) Puerto Rican ameiva
- Ameiva festiva (Lichtenstein, 1856) – Central American ameiva
- Ameiva fuscata Garman, 1887 – Dominican ameiva
- Ameiva griswoldi Barbour, 1916 – Antiguan ameiva, Griswold's ameiva
- Ameiva leberi Schwartz & Klinikowski, 1966 – Hispaniola ameiva
- Ameiva leptophrys (Cope, 1893) – delicate ameiva
- Ameiva lineolata A.M.C. Duméril & Bibron, 1839 – pigmy blue-tailed ameiva, dwarf teiid
- Ameiva major † A.M.C. Duméril & Bibron, 1839 – Martinique giant ameiva (extinct)
- Ameiva maynardi Garman, 1888 – (Great) Inagua ameiva
- Ameiva niceforoi Dunn, 1943
- Ameiva orcesi J. Peters, 1964 – Peters' ameiva
- Ameiva plei A.M.C. Duméril & Bibron, 1839 – Anguilla Bank ameiva
- Ameiva pluvianotata Garman, 1887 – Montiserrat ameiva
- Ameiva polops Cope, 1962 – St. Croix ameiva, Saint Croix ground lizard
- Ameiva praesignis (Baird & Girard, 1852) – giant ameiva, Amazon racerunner
- Ameiva provitaae García-Pérez, 1995
- Ameiva quadrilineata (Hallowell, 1861) – four-lined whiptail
- Ameiva reticulata Landauro, Garcia-Bravo, & Venegas, 2015
- Ameiva septemlineata A.H.A. Duméril, 1851 – seven-lined ameiva
- Ameiva taeniura Cope, 1862 – Hispaniolan blue-tailed ameiva, Haitian ameiva
- Ameiva undulata (Wiegmann, 1834) – rainbow ameiva
- Ameiva vittata (Boulenger, 1902)
- Ameiva wetmorei Stejneger, 1913 – Puerto Rican blue-tailed ameiva, Wetmore's ameiva
Nota bene: A binomial authority in parentheses indicates that the species was originally described in a genus other than Ameiva.
References
- ^ Conant R (1975). A Field Guide to Reptiles and Amphibians of Eastern and Central North America, Second Edition. Boston: Houghton Mifflin. xviii + 429 pp. + Plates 1-48. ISBN 0-395-19979-4 (hardcover), ISBN 0-395-19977-8 (paperback). (Ameiva ameiva, pp. 120-121 + Plate 17 + Map 92).
- ^ Ameiva. The Reptile Database. www.reptile-database.org.
Further reading
- Meyer FAA (1795). Synopsis reptilium, novam ipsorum sistens generum methodum, nec non Gottingensium huius ordinis animalium enumerationem. Göttingen: van den Hoek and Ruprecht. 32 pp. (Ameiva, new genus, p. 27). (in Latin).
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