Ameiva fuliginosa (COPE, 1892)

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Higher Taxa	Teiidae, Teiinae, Gymnophthalmoidea, Sauria, Squamata (lizards)
Subspecies
Common Names
Synonym	Tiaporus fuliginosus COPE 1892: 132 Ameiva panchlora BARBOUR 1921 (fide DUNN & SAXE 1950: 156) Ameiva ameiva fulginosa [sic] — UGUETO & HARVEY 2011 Ameiva ameiva fuliginosa — MCNISH 2011 Ameiva fuliginosa — MCCRANIE & GOTTE 2014
Distribution	Colombia (Providencia, San Andrés), Honduras (Swan Islands) Type locality: ‘‘Swan Island in the Caribbean Sea.’’ panchlora: Type locality: ‘‘Old Providence Island, Colombia.’’
Reproduction	oviparous (manual imputation, fide Zimin et al. 2022)
Types	Syntypes: MCZ 20294 [formerly USNM 32118], holotype in USNM catalogue as USNM 63397-63398, or recatalogued under USNM 13879; also given as USNM 14710; Lectotype: USNM 14710; paralectotypes: USNM 32119–32120 and MCZ 20294, designated by McCranie & Gotte 2014 (fuliginosa) Holotype: USNM 13879; paratypes: MCZ R-14293 [formerly USNM 63397], USNM 63398 [panchlora]
Diagnosis
Comment	Synonymy partly after UGUETO & HARVEY 2011 who also suggested that fuliginosa (and tobagana) may be full species. Diet: a large percentage of the diet of this species (10-30%) consists of ants (Lucas et al. 2023).
Etymology	unknown fide HARVEY et al. 2012.
References	Barbour, Thomas 1921. Some reptiles from Old Providence Island. Proc. New England zool. Club 7: 81-85 - get paper here Cope, E.D. 1892. On Tiaporus, a New Genus of Teiidœ. Proc. Am. Phil. Soc. 30: 132-133 - get paper here Dunn, E. R., and L. H. Saxe. 1950. Results of the Catherwood-Chaplin West Indies Expedition, 1948. Part. 5. Amphibians and reptiles of San Andrés and Providencia. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, 102:141-165 - get paper here Lucas B Q Cavalcanti, 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 McCranie, James R. 2015. A checklist of the amphibians and reptiles of Honduras, with additions, comments on taxonomy, some recent taxonomic decisions, and areas of further studies needed. Zootaxa 3931 (3): 352–386 - get paper here McCranie, James R. 2018. The Lizards, Crocodiles, and Turtles of Honduras. Systematics, Distribution, and Conservation. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Special Publication Series (2): 1- 666 - get paper here McCranie, James R. and Steve W. Gotte 2014. An investigation into the Swan Island Honduras collecting event of Tiaporus fuliginosus Cope (Reptilia: Teiidae) and its systematic status. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 127 (4): 543-556 - get paper here McNish, T. 2011. La fauna del archipiélago de San Andrés, Providencia y Santa Catalina, Colombia, Sudamérica. Colomba Andina de Impresos, ISBN 978-958-99518-1-1 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 Ugueto, Gabriel N.; and Michael B. Harvey 2011. Revision of Ameiva ameiva Linnaeus (Squamata: Teiidae) in Venezuela: Recognition of Four Species and Status of Introduced Populations in Southern Florida, USA. Herpetological Monographs 25 (1): 112-170 - get paper here Zimin, A., Zimin, S. V., Shine, R., Avila, L., Bauer, A., Böhm, M., Brown, R., Barki, G., de Oliveira Caetano, G. H., Castro Herrera, F., Chapple, D. G., Chirio, L., Colli, G. R., Doan, T. M., Glaw, F., Grismer, L. L., Itescu, Y., Kraus, F., LeBreton 2022. A global analysis of viviparity in squamates highlights its prevalence in cold climates. Global Ecology and Biogeography, 00, 1–16 - get paper here
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