Ameiva festiva

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• Description
• Taxonomy
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• Notes

Interesting Facts

Common Names

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Description

Habitat

Typically found in the intertidal zone at the water's edge at a mean distance from sea level of 253 meters (831 feet).[1]

Biome: Coastal.

Taxonomy

Synonyms

Ameiva festiva — Boulenger 1885: 347 • Ameiva festiva — GÜnther 1885: 24 • Ameiva festiva — KÖhler 2000: 97 • Ameiva festiva — Liner 1994 • Ameiva festiva — Peters Et Al. 1970: 21 • Ameiva festivus Bocourt 1874 • Cnemidophorus festivus Lichtenstein 1856: 13

Notes

Name Status: Accepted Name .

Comment: Syntypes: ZMB 881 Synonymy partly that of PETERS & OREJAS-MIRANDA 1970. Not listed for El Salvador by KÖHLER (2000). Relative abundance in Honduras: common

Similar Species

Members of the genus Ameiva

ZipcodeZoo has pages for 37 species and subspecies in this genus:

A. ameiva (Giant Ameiva) · A. anomala (Echternacht's Ameiva) · A. auberi (Auber's Ameiva) · A. bifrontata (Cope's Ameiva) · A. bridgesii (Bridges'ameiva) · A. chaitzami (Chaitzam's Ameiva) · A. chrysolaema (Hisaniolan Giant Ameiva) · A. cineracea (Guadeloupe Ameiva) · A. corax (Anguilla Black Ameiva) · A. corvina (Sombrero Ameiva) · A. dorsalis (Jamaica Ameiva) · A. edracantha (Bocourt's Ameiva) · A. erythrocephala (St. Christopher Ameiva) · A. exsul (Puerto Rican Ground Lizard) · A. exsul exsul (Common Puerto Rican Ameiva) · A. festiva (Middleamerican Ameiva) · A. festiva festiva (Middleamerican Ameiva) · A. fuscata (Dominican Ameiva) · A. griswoldi (Antiguan Ameiva) · A. leberi (Hispaniola Ameiva) · A. leptophrys (Delicate Ameiva) · A. lineolata (Pigmy Blue-Tailed Ameiva) · A. lineolata lineolata (Dwarf Teiid) · A. major (Martinique Giant Ameiva) · A. maynardi (Great Inagua Ameiva) · A. maynardii (Inagua Ameiva) · A. orcesi (Peters' Ameiva) · A. pluvianotata (Montiserrat Ameiva) · A. polops (Saint Croix Ground Lizard) · A. provitaae (Mato Trompa Roja) · A. quadrilineata (Four-Lined Ameiva) · A. septemlineata (Seven-Lined Ameiva) · A. taeniura (Hispaniolan Blue-Tailed Ameiva) · A. taeniura taeniura (Haitian Ameiva) · A. undulata (Rainbow Ameiva) · A. undulata undulata (Rainbow Ameiva) · A. wetmorei (Blue-Tailed Ground Lizard)

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Further Reading

• Breviora. 1970 Cambridge, Mass.: Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University, [1952- url p. 5.
• Bulletin - United States National Museum. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, [etc.];1877-1971. url p. 174, p. 238, p. 255.
• Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College. 69 1929 Cambridge, Mass.: The Museum, 1863- url p. 141, p. 473, p. 473.
• Catalogue of the lizards in the British museum (Natural history) / London: Printed by order of the Trustees, 1885-87. url .
• Catalogue of the neotropical Squamata. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1970. url p. 21, p. 22, p. 284, p. 288.
• Ectoparasites of Panama. Rupert L. Wenzel [and] Vernon J. Tipton, editors. Chicago, Field Museum of Natural History, 1966. url p. 236, p. 258.
• Memoirs of the California Academy of Sciences. San Francisco: The Academy, 1868- url p. 261.
• Miscellaneous publication - University of Kansas, Museum of Natural History. 1971 Lawrence: University of Kansas, 1946-1996. url p. 12, fig. 5, page 20, fig. 9, page 204, p. 243, p. 26, fig. 10, page 28, p. 30, p. 31, fig. 12, page 32, p. 33, fig. 24, page 57, p. 6, p. 63, fig. 28, page 64, p. 69, p. 7, p. 72, p. 76, p. 85, p. 9, p. 94.
• Notes on a collection of birds from Michoacan, Mexico, by Emmet R. Blake and Harold C. Hanson. 22 1942 [Chicago]1942. url p. 553.
• Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. Philadelphia, Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia url , p. 400, p. 406.
• Proceedings of the United States National Museum. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, [etc.] url p. 29.
• Sexual size differences in reptiles / by Henry S. Fitch. 1981 Lawrence: University of Kansas, 1981. url p. 19, appendix i, page 53.
• Smithsonian miscellaneous collections. 89 1935 Washington: Smithsonian Institution, 1862-1968. url p. 11.
• Supplementary catalogue of type specimens of reptiles and amphibians in Field Museum of Natural History / Hymen Marx. 69 1976 [Chicago]: Field Museum of Natural History, 1976. url p. 68.
• The Biological bulletin. Woods Hole, Mass.: Marine Biological Laboratory, url p. 325, p. 326, p. 327, p. 328.
• The University of Kansas science bulletin. 38 1956 [Lawrence]: University of Kansas, 1902-1996. url p. 260, p. 261, p. 5, p. 58.
• The amphibians and reptiles of British Honduras, by Karl P. Schmidt. 22 1941 [Chicago]1941. url p. 495.
• The biogeography of the herpetofauna of the subhumid forests of Middle America: (Isthmus of Tehuantepec to northwestern Costa Rica) / Toronto: Royal Ontario Museum, c1998. url p. 15, p. 26, p. 31.
• The palatal dentition in squamate reptiles: morphology, development, attachment, and replacement / D. Luke Mahler, Maureen Kearney. 108 2006 Chicago, Ill.: Field Museum of Natural History, c2006. url p. 29.
• Transactions of the Academy of Science of St. Louis. 28 1933 [St. Louis: Academy of Science of St. Louis], 1860-1958. url p. 53.
• Variation in clutch and litter size in New World reptiles / by Henry S. Fitch. 1985 Lawrence: University of Kansas, 1985. url p. 10, p. 68, appendix i, page 71, appendix ii, page 72.
• Vertebrate life / Upper Saddle River, N.J.: Prentice Hall, c1996. url p. 490, p. 492.

Notes

Contributors

• Bisby, F.A., Y.R. Roskov, M.A. Ruggiero, T.M. Orrell, L.E. Paglinawan, P.W. Brewer, N. Bailly, J. van Hertum, eds (2007). Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life: 2007 Annual Checklist. Species 2000: Reading, U.K.
• Brands, S.J. (comp.) 1989-present. The Taxonomicon. Universal Taxonomic Services, Zwaag, The Netherlands. Accessed February 5, 2012.
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Accessed February 27, 2008. http://www.gbif.org Mediated distribution data from 4 providers.
• Ruggiero M., Gordon D., Bailly N., Kirk P., Nicolson D. (2011). The Catalogue of Life Taxonomic Classification, Edition 2, Part A. In: Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life: 2011 Annual Checklist (Bisby F.A., Roskov Y.R., Orrell T.M., Nicolson D., Paglinawan L.E., Bailly N., Kirk P.M., Bourgoin T., Baillargeon G., Ouvrard D., eds). DVD; Species 2000: Reading, UK.
• TIGR Reptile Database . Release date: October 2, 2007
• Uetz, Peter. The Reptile Database

Data Sources

Accessed through GBIF Data Portal February 27, 2008:

• Carnegie Museums: Amphibians and Reptiles
• Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History: Vertebrate specimens
• Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University: MCZ Herpetology Collection - Reptile Database
• Museum of Vertebrate Zoology: Terrestrial vertebrate specimens

Identifiers

• Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 2546605
• Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: Rep-271
• Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) Taxonomic Serial Number (TSN): 585705
• Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 133978

Footnotes

1. Standard Deviation = 565.350 based on 8 observations. Terrestrial altitude and ocean depth information for each observation from British Oceanographic Data Centre. [back]

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