Biology:Pholidoscelis

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Short description: Genus of lizards

Pholidoscelis
Puerto rican ameiva.jpg
Common Puerto Rican ameiva (Pholidoscelis exsul)
Scientific classification e
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Squamata
Family: Teiidae
Subfamily: Teiinae
Genus: Pholidoscelis
Fitzinger, 1843

Pholidoscelis is a genus of lizards that belongs to the family Teiidae. All species are endemic to the West Indies.

Classification

Listed alphabetically.[1]

  • Pholidoscelis alboguttatus (Boulenger, 1896) – Mona ground lizard, Mona ameiva
  • Pholidoscelis atratus (Garman, 1887) – Redonda ameiva
  • Pholidoscelis auberi (Cocteau, 1838) – Auber's ameiva, Cuban ameiva
  • Pholidoscelis chrysolaemus (Cope, 1868) – common ameiva, Hispaniolan giant ameiva
  • Pholidoscelis cineraceus (Barbour & Noble, 1915) – Guadeloupe ameiva (extinct)
  • Pholidoscelis corax (Censky & Paulson, 1992) – Censky's ameiva, Anguilla black ameiva, Little Scrub Island ground lizard
  • Pholidoscelis corvinus (Cope, 1861) – Sombrero ameiva
  • Pholidoscelis desechensis (Heatwole & Torres, 1967) – Desecheo ground lizard
  • Pholidoscelis dorsalis (Gray, 1838) – Jamaica ameiva
  • Pholidoscelis erythrocephalus (Daudin, 1802) – St. Christopher ameiva
  • Pholidoscelis exsul (Cope, 1862) – common Puerto Rican ameiva
  • Pholidoscelis fuscatus (Garman, 1887) – Dominican ameiva
  • Pholidoscelis griswoldi (Barbour, 1916) – Antiguan ameiva, Griswold's ameiva
  • Pholidoscelis lineolatus (A.M.C. Duméril & Bibron, 1839) – Pigmy blue-tailed ameiva, dwarf teiid
  • Pholidoscelis major (A.M.C. Duméril & Bibron, 1839) – Martinique ameiva, Martinique giant ameiva
  • Pholidoscelis maynardi (Garman, 1888) – Great Inagua ameiva
  • Pholidoscelis plei (A.M.C. Duméril & Bibron, 1839) – Anguilla Bank ameiva
  • Pholidoscelis pluvianotatus (Garman, 1887) – Montserrat ameiva
  • Pholidoscelis polops (Cope, 1862) – St. Croix ameiva, St. Croix ground lizard
  • Pholidoscelis taeniurus (Cope, 1862) – Hispaniolan blue-tailed ameiva, Haitian ameiva
  • Pholidoscelis 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 Pholidiscelis.

References

  1. Pholidoscelis, The Reptile Database

Wikidata ☰ Q24188996 entry