Ameiva polops

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

Overview

Critically Endangered

Interesting Facts

Common Names

Description

Habitat

Biome: Terrestrial [1].

Taxonomy

Synonyms

Ameiva polops — Boulenger 1885: 350 • Ameiva polops — Schwartz & Henderson 1991: 200

Notes

Name Status: Accepted Name .

Comment: The holotype of the species, (USNM 30695) is located in the U.S. National Museum in Washington D.C. The syntypes (R.4355-4356) are in the Museum of Zoology of the University of Copenhagen, Denmark. Other specimens exist in the University of Puerto Rico, Biology Museum, Rio Piedras Campus, (UPRRP 3675-3677-3679) and at the University of Michigan, Museum of Zoology (UMMZ 88236, 80603-04) in Ann Arbor , Michigan. Types of Örstedii are in ZMB and ZMUC. For illustrations see Cope, 1895 (as A. leucomelas); Grant, 1937; Heatwole and Torres, 1967; Philibosian and Yntema, 1977; MacLean, 1982.

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

• 1994 IUCN red list of threatened animals Gland, Switzerland: IUCN, 1993 url p. 81.
• 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. 311.
• Annual report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution. Washington: Smithsonian Institution, -1965. url p. 564.
• Behavior and ecology of the rock iguana Cyclura carinata / by John Burton Iverson III. 1977. url p. 351, p. 370.
• Bulletin - United States National Museum. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, [etc.];1877-1971. url p. 273, p. 275, p. 83.
• Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College. 82 1937 Cambridge, Mass.: The Museum, 1863- url p. 142, p. 417, p. 442, p. 442, title (no. 7), page 481, p. 89.
• Catalogue of the lizards in the British museum (Natural history) / London: Printed by order of the Trustees, 1885-87. url .
• Field Museum of Natural History bulletin. Chicago, Field Museum of Natural History, [1930]-c1990. url p. 8.
• Herpetology of Porto Rico / Leonhard Stejneger. Washington:U.S. Government Printing Office, 1904. url p. 564.
• Oceanus. Woods Hole, Mass., Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution url p. 34.
• Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington. Washington, Biological Society of Washington url p. 69.
• The Marine Mammal Commission compendium of selected treaties, international agreements, and other relevant documents on marine resources, wildlife, and the environment / compiled by Richard L. Wallace. Washington, D.C.: The Commission; 1994 url p. 2333.
• Threatened wildlife of the United States. Washington, Bureau of Sport Fisheries and Wildlife [for sale by the Supt. of Docs., U.S. Govt. Print. Off.]1973. url p. 93.
• West Indian mammals from the Albert Schwartz Collection: biological and historical information / by Robert M. Timm and Hugh H. Genoways. 2003 Lawrence, Kan.: Natural History Museum, University of Kansas, [2003] url p. 44.
• World Checklist of Threatened Amphibians and Reptiles Joint Nature Conservation Committee url p. 45, p. 48.
• World Checklists of Threatened Amphibians and Reptiles Nature Conservancy Council url p. 40, p. 56.

Notes

Contributors

• Brands, S.J. (comp.) 1989-present. The Taxonomicon. Universal Taxonomic Services, Zwaag, The Netherlands. Accessed February 5, 2012.
• IUCN 2012. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. . Downloaded on January 28, 2012.
• Nellis, D. 1996. Ameiva polops. In: IUCN 2011. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloadedon 30January2012.

Identifiers

• Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 2536048
• Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: Rep-283
• Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) Taxonomic Serial Number (TSN): 174030
• IUCN ID: 190479
• U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Species Identifier: C01P
• Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 715

Footnotes

1. Nellis, D. 1996. Ameiva polops. In: IUCN 2011. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 30 January 2012. [back]

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