Ameiva

Ameiva
Ameiva fuscata in Dominica.
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Reptilia
Order:	Squamata
Suborder:	Lacertilia
Family:	Teiidae
Genus:	Ameiva Meyer, 1795
Species
36, see text

A. festiva, Costa Rica

A. quadrilineata in the Osa Peninsula, Costa Rica

Ameiva, commonly called jungle-runners, is a genus of whiptail lizards that belongs to the family of Teiidae. Member species are found in South America and throughout various islands of the Caribbean.

Species

Sourced from "The Reptile Database".^[1]

• 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, 1968 – 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, 1938 – 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 Duméril & Bibron, 1839 – Pigmy Blue-tailed Ameiva, Dwarf Teiid
• Ameiva major† Duméril & Bibron, 1839 – Martinique Giant Ameiva (extinct)
• Ameiva maynardi Garman, 1888 – (Great) Inagua Ameiva
• Ameiva niceforoi Dunn, 1943
• Ameiva orcesi Peters, 1964 – Peters' Ameiva
• Ameiva plei 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 Garcia-Peréz, 1995
• Ameiva quadrilineata (Hallowell, 1861) – Four-lined Whiptail
• Ameiva septemlineata 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

References

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