Ameiva taeniura

• Interesting Facts
• Common Names
• Description
• Taxonomy
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• Notes

Interesting Facts

Common Names

Description

Habitat

Typically found in water with a depth of 0 to -4,222 meters (0 to -13,852 feet).[1]

Biome: Marine .

Taxonomy

Synonyms

Ameiva taeniura — Boulenger 1885: 350 • Ameiva taeniura — Hower & Hedges 2003 • Ameiva taeniura — Schwartz & Henderson 1991: 201

Notes

Name Status: Accepted Name .

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

• A contribution to the zoögeography of the West Indies, with especial reference to amphibians and reptiles / by Thomas Barbour. 44 1914 Cambridge, U.S.A.: Printed for the Museum, 1914. url p. 310.
• Breviora. 1969 Cambridge, Mass.: Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University, [1952- url p. 15, p. 18, p. 18.
• Bulletin - United States National Museum. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, [etc.];1877-1971. url , , p. 12, p. 270, p. 272, p. 272, p. 273, p. 274, p. 274, p. 275, p. 276, p. 294, p. 296.
• Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College. 135 1966-1967 Cambridge, Mass.: The Museum, 1863- url , title , p. 143, p. 214, p. 299, article start, page 345, p. 347, p. 349, p. 351, p. 353, p. 354, p. 355, p. 357, p. 359, p. 361, p. 363, p. 364, p. 365, p. 367, p. 369, p. 371, p. 372, p. 373, p. 375, article start, page 427, p. 433, p. 433, p. 435, p. 435, p. 455, p. 90.
• Catalogue of the lizards in the British Museum (Natural History) 2d. ed., LondonPrinted by order of the Trustees1885-87 url p. 350.
• Occasional papers of the Boston Society of Natural History. Boston, Boston Society of Natural History, 1869-1941. url p. 183.
• Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington. Washington, Biological Society of Washington url p. 54, p. 57, p. 58, p. 786.
• Proceedings of the United States National Museum. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, [etc.] url p. 10.
• 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.
• Tulane studies in zoology and botany. 16 1970 New Orleans: Tulane University, [1968- url p. 136.
• Tulane studies in zoology. 14 1967 New Orleans: Tulane University, 1953-1968. url fig. 9, page 34.

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:

• 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
• Yale University Peabody Museum: Peabody Herp Collection DiGIR provider Service

Identifiers

• Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 2536050
• Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: Rep-8858
• Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 641110

Footnotes

1. Mean = -2,594.060 meters (-8,510.696 feet), Standard Deviation = 1,332.210 based on 16 observations. Ocean depth information for each observation from British Oceanographic Data Centre. [back]

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