Interesting Facts
Common Names
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Common Names in English:
Rainbow Ameiva
Common Names in Spanish:
Ameiva Metálica O Arcoiris
Taxonomy
- Domain:
Eukaryota
(
)
- Whittaker & Margulis,1978
- eukaryotes
- Kingdom:
Animalia
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)
- C. Linnaeus, 1758
- animals
- Subkingdom:
Bilateria
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)
- (Hatschek, 1888) Cavalier-Smith, 1983
- Branch:
Deuterostomia
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)
- Grobben, 1908
- Infrakingdom:
Chordonia
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)
- (Haeckel, 1874) Cavalier-Smith, 1998
- Phylum:
Chordata
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)
- Bateson, 1885
- Chordates
- Subphylum:
Vertebrata
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)
- Cuvier, 1812
- Vertebrates
- Infraphylum:
Gnathostomata
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)
- auct.
- Jawed Vertebrates
- Superclass:
Tetrapoda
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)
- Goodrich, 1930
- Subclass:
Diapsida
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)
- Infraclass:
Lepidosauromorpha
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)
- Superorder:
Lepidosauria
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)
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- Order:
Squamata
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)
- Suborder:
Lacertilia
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)
- Infraorder:
Scincomorpha
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)
- Infraorder:
Scincomorpha
(
- Suborder:
Lacertilia
(
- Order:
Squamata
(
- Superorder:
Lepidosauria
(
- Infraclass:
Lepidosauromorpha
(
- Subclass:
Diapsida
(
- Superclass:
Tetrapoda
(
- Infraphylum:
Gnathostomata
(
- Subphylum:
Vertebrata
(
- Phylum:
Chordata
(
- Infrakingdom:
Chordonia
(
- Branch:
Deuterostomia
(
- Subkingdom:
Bilateria
(
- Kingdom:
Animalia
(
Synonyms
Ameiva undulata — Boulenger 1885: 347 • Ameiva undulata — Gray 1845: 20 • Ameiva undulata — GÜnther 1885: 23 • Ameiva undulata — KÖhler 2000: 97 • Ameiva undulata — Liner 1994 • Ameiva undulata — Peters Et Al. 1970 • Ameiva undulata — Smith & Taylor 1950: 172 • Cnemidophorus undulatus Wiegmann 1834: 27
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
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- Amphibian & reptile conservation: the international journal devoted to the worldwide preservation and management of amphibian and reptilian diversity. Provo, Utah: Amphibian & Reptile Conservation, [1996- url p. 21.
- An ecogeographic analysis of the herpetofauna of the Yucatán Peninsula / by Julian C. Lee. 1980 Lawrence: University of Kansas, 1980. url fig. 3, page 11.
- Annals of natural history. London, R. and J.E. Taylor, url p. 277, p. 277.
- Bird lice from the Tinamidae. 24 1943 Chicago, 1943. url p. 389.
- Breviora. 1970 Cambridge, Mass.: Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University, [1952- url p. 5.
- Brigham Young University science bulletin. Provo, Utah: Brigham Young University, [1955-1976] url , , , , , p. 1, p. 15, p. 17, fig. 9, page 18, fig. 17, page 27.
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- Bulletin of the Essex Institute. Salem, Mass.: Essex Institute. url p. 13.
- Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College. 59 1915 Cambridge, Mass.: The Museum, 1863- url p. 420, p. 420, p. 421, p. 421, p. 479.
- Bulletin of the Southern California Academy of Sciences. Los Angeles, Calif.: The Academy, 1902-1971. url p. 146.
- Bulletin. Salem, Mass. url p. 13.
- Catalogue of the Specimens of lizards in the collection of the British museum. London, Printed by order of the Trustees, 1845. url .
- 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. 23, p. 24, p. 285, p. 288, p. 289, p. 290, p. 292.
- Ectoparasites of Panama. Rupert L. Wenzel [and] Vernon J. Tipton, editors. Chicago, Field Museum of Natural History, 1966. url p. 235, p. 236, p. 258, p. 798.
- Miscellaneous publication - University of Kansas, Museum of Natural History. 1971 Lawrence: University of Kansas, 1946-1996. url p. 25, p. 3, fig. 13, page 34, p. 40, p. 41, fig. 17, page 42, fig. 20, page 44, p. 46, p. 49, p. 52, p. 54, p. 55, p. 56, p. 58, fig. 28, page 64, p. 70, p. 80, p. 9.
- Notes on a collection of reptiles made by Mr. C. J. Pierson at Fort Smith, Arkansas, with remarks on other eastern reptiles. Wheeling, W. Va., 1899. url .
- Notes on amphibians and reptiles from El Salvador / A. Stanley Rand. 34 1957 Chicago: Chicago Natural History Museum, 1957. url p. 505.
- Occasional papers of the Boston Society of Natural History. Boston, Boston Society of Natural History, 1869-1941. url p. 77.
- Postilla. 2004 New Haven, Conn.: Peabody Museum of Natural History, [1950?]-c2004. url p. 19.
- Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. Philadelphia, Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia url p. 197, p. 197.
- Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington. Washington, Biological Society of Washington url p. 119, p. 166, p. 169, p. 193, p. 196, p. 199, p. 200, p. 201, p. 55.
- Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences, 4th series. San Francisco, California Academy of Sciences. url p. 262, p. 649.
- Proceedings of the United States National Museum. 9 1886 Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, [etc.] url p. 662.
- Proceedings. Royal Society of London. v. 1-75; 1800-1904. London url p. 122, p. 135.
- Publication. Field Columbian Museum. Chicago, U.S.A.: The Museum, 1895-1909. url p. 193.
- Reptiles collected in Salvador for the California Institute of Technology, by Karl P. Schmidt. 12 1928 Chicago, 1928. url p. 193, p. 198.
- Science. 36 1912 New York, N.Y.: [s.n.]1880- url p. 681.
- 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, p. 69.
- The Mexican and Central American lizards of the genus Sceloporus, by Hobart M. Smith. 26 1939 Chicago: Field Museum of Natural History, 1939 url p. 261, p. 395.
- The University of Kansas science bulletin. 31 1946 [Lawrence]: University of Kansas, 1902-1996. url p. 10, p. 10, p. 107, p. 11, p. 110, p. 119, descr. of fig. 2, page 17, fig. 3, page 18, p. 22, fig. 4, page 23, fig. 5, page 25, p. 268, fig. 6, page 28, p. 29, p. 30, p. 32, p. 33, fig. 7, page 34, p. 35, p. 37, p. 41, p. 42, p. 47, p. 49, p. 52, p. 58, p. 61, p. 62, p. 64, p. 67, p. 7, fig. 11, page 72, p. 8, fig. 17, page 87, p. 9.
- 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. 23, p. 26, p. 27, p. 31.
- The herpetological fauna of the Salama Basin, Baja Verapaz, Guatemala, by Karl P. Schmidt and L. C. Stuart. 1941 Chicago, 1941. url p. 237, p. 242.
- The zoölogy of the lakes Amatitlan and Atitlan, Guatemala, with special reference to ichthyology. 7 1908 Chicago, 1908. url p. 193.
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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 6 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
- University of Alberta: University of Alberta Herpetology Collection
- Yale University Peabody Museum: Peabody Herp Collection DiGIR provider Service
Identifiers
- Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 2546607
- Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: Rep-8879
- Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) Taxonomic Serial Number (TSN): 585706
- Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 133979
