| Higher Taxa | Teiidae, Teiinae, Gymnophthalmoidea, Sauria, Squamata (lizards) |
| Subspecies | |
| Common Names | E: Antillean Ameiva
S: Antillen-Ameive |
| Synonym | Amiva [sic] surinamensis tobaganus COPE 1879: 276
Ameiva surinamensis var. aquilina GARMAN 1887: 2
Ameiva aquilina — BARBOUR 1914
Ameiva tobagana — BARBOUR & NOBLE 1915
Ameiva tobagana — BARBOUR 1916
Ameiva aquilina — BARBOUR 1930
Ameiva ameiva tobagana — PETERS & DONOSO-BARROS 1970: 20; misident.)
Ameiva ameiva tobagana — MERTENS 1972
Ameiva ameiva tobagana — KRINTLER 1982
Ameiva aquilina — SAJDAK et al. 2016
Ameiva aquilina — HEDGES et al. 2019
Ameiva tobagana — THORPE 2022
Ameiva tobogana — UETZ & POWELL 2025 (in error) |
| Distribution | Grenada, St. Vincent
Type locality: uncertain, given as Tobago, but apparently in error; Tuck and Hardy, 1973 showed that the holotype probably came from Grenada, the Grenadines, or St. Vincent.
Type locality: St. George, Grenada, Kingston, St. Vincent, British Virgin Islands [aquilina]
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| Reproduction | |
| Types | Holotype: USNM 10113 [tobagana]
Syntypes: ANSP 19595, MCZ 6088-89, CAS, NMW [aquilina] |
| Diagnosis | Additional details, e.g. a detailed description or comparisons (1413 characters), are available for collaborators and contributors. Please contact us for details. |
| Comment | Synonymy: Ameiva aquilina is a synonym of A. tobagana fide Schwartz & Thomas 1975, but some recent authors list A. aquilina as valid but if the synonymy is confirmed, tobagana has priority over aquilina.
Diet: a large percentage of the diet of this species (10-30%) consists of ants (Lucas et al. 2023).
Nomenclature: The author is not in parentheses, as this case follows ICZN article 51.3.1. “Parentheses are not used when the species-group name was originally combined with an incorrect spelling or an emendation of the generic name (this applies even though an unjustified emendation is an available name with its own authorship and date [Art. 33.2.3]).” |
| References |
- Barbour, T. 1916. Amphibians and reptiles of Tobago. Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington 29: 221-224 - get paper here
- Barbour, T. and G. K. Noble. 1915. A revision of the lizards of the genus Ameiva. Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool. Harvard 59: 417-479. - get paper here
- Barbour, Thomas 1914. A Contribution to the Zoögeography of the West Indies, with Especial Reference to Amphibians and Reptiles. Memoirs of the Museum of Comparative Zoölogy 44 (2): 205-359 - get paper here
- Barbour, Thomas 1930. Some faunistic changes in the Lesser Antilles. Proc. New England Zool. Club 11: 73-85
- Cavalcanti, Lucas B Q; Gabriel C Costa, Guarino R Colli, Eric R Pianka, Laurie J Vitt, Daniel O Mesquita 2023. Myrmecophagy in lizards: evolutionary and ecological implications. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, 2023;, zlad175, - get paper here
- Cope, E.D. 1879. Eleventh contribution to the herpetology of tropical America. Proc. Amer. Philos. Soc. 18: 261-277. - get paper here
- Garman, S. 1887. On the West Indian Teiids in the Museum of Comparative Zoology. Bull. Essex Inst. 19: 1-12. - get paper here
- Krintler, K. 1982. Auf den Spuren von Robert Mertens auf Tobago. Herpetofauna 4 (16): 10-14 - get paper here
- Mertens, R. 1972. Herpetofauna tobagana. Stuttgarter Beitr. zur Naturkunde nr. 252 22 pp. - get paper here
- Morato, Sérgio Augusto Abrahão; Guilherme Nunes Ferreira; Michela Rossane Cavilha Scupino (eds.) 2018. Herpetofauna da Amazônia Central: Estudos na FLONA de Saracá-Taquera. Curitiba, Pr: STCP Engenharia de Projetos Ltda.; Porto Trombetas, Pa: MRN – Mineração Rio do Norte S.A., 2018.<br />210p. - get paper here
- Peters, James A. & Donoso-Barros, Roberto 1970. Catalogue of the Neotropical Squamata: Part II. Lizards and Amphisbaenians. Bull. US Natl. Mus. 297: 293 pp. - get paper here
- Sajdak, Richard A.; Craig S. Berg, and Robert W. Henderson 2016. Thorny Situations: Reptiles on the Grenadines. IRCF Reptiles & Amphibians 23 (1): 34–39 - get paper here
- Schwartz, A. and R. Thomas. 1975. A checklist of West Indian amphibians and reptiles. Carnegie Mus. Nat. Hist. Spec. Publ. 1:1-216. - get paper here
- Thorpe, R.S. 2022. Reptiles of the Lesser Antilles. Chimaira, Frankfurt, 608 pp. - get paper here
- Tuck, Robert G.;Hardy, Jerry David 1973. Status of the Ober Tabago collection, Smithsonian Institution, and the proper allocation of Ameiva surinamensis tobaganus Cope (Sauria: Teiidae). Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington 86 (19): 231-242 - get paper here
- Uetz PH, Powell R. 2025. Etymologies of Caribbean reptiles. Caribbean Herpetology 98: 1–9 - get paper here
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