Leiocephalus jamaicensis ETHERIDGE, 1966

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Higher Taxa	Leiocephalidae, Iguania, Sauria, Squamata (lizards)
Subspecies
Common Names	E: Jamaican Curlytail
Synonym	Leiocephalus jamaicensis ETHERIDGE 1966 Leiocephalus jamaicensis — PREGILL 1992: 45
Distribution	Fossils are known from Jamaica. Type locality: Dairy Cave,2.5km W Dry Harbour, St. Ann Parish. Jamaica. Additional fossils are known from Montego Bay Airport Cave at the west end of the air strip. Montego Bay, St. James Parish, and from Portland Ridge Caves. Clarendon Parish (Etheridge, 1966b). Most recently reported by Pregill et al. (1991) from Marta Tick Cave. 8 km WNW Quickstep, Trelawny Parish (Pregill 1992)
Reproduction	oviparous
Types	Holotype: AMNH 2311 (VP = vertebrate paleontology), left dentary.
Diagnosis
Comment	Conservation: Now extinct. Only known from fossils. None of the type material is believed to be older than the latest Pleistocene.
Etymology	Named after the type locality.
References	Etheridge, R. 1966. An extinct lizard of the genus Leiocephalus from Jamaica. Quarterly J. Florida Acad. Sci. 29: 47-59 - get paper here Pregill,G.K. 1992. Systematics of the West Indian Lizard Genus Leiocephalus (Squamata: Iguania: Tropiduridae). Misc. Publ. Univ. Kans. Mus. Nat. Hist. 84: 1-69 - get paper here
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