Ameiva provitaae GARCIA-PEREZ, 1995

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Higher Taxa	Teiidae, Teiinae, Gymnophthalmoidea, Sauria, Squamata (lizards)
Subspecies
Common Names	S: mato trompa roja
Synonym	Ameiva provitaae GARCIA-PEREZ 1995 Ameiva provitaae — LA MARCA & SORIANO 2004 Ameiva provitaae — HARVEY et al. 2012
Distribution	Venezuela (Merida: “enclave semiárido de Lagunillas en la cuena media del Rio Chama”) Type locality: “Laguna de Caparú, 820 m [elevation], 829’ N, 7120’ W, 20 km al SO de Mérida, estado Mérida, Venezuela”.
Reproduction	oviparous
Types	Holotype: MCNG 1669, adult male
Diagnosis
Comment	Status: This species is a possible synonym of A. bifrontata. The characters thought to be unique to diagnose this species (such as a red snout, see García-Pérez 1995a) are present in different populations of A. bifrontata (GU, unpubl. data, cited in RIVAS et al. 2012). Abundance: only known from its original description (Meiri et al. 2017). Diet: a large percentage of the diet of this species (10-30%) consists of ants (Lucas et al. 2023).
Etymology	Named after the “Fundación PROVITA”,
References	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 Garcia-Perez, J.E. 1995. Una nueva especie del complejo de Ameiva bifrontata (Sauria:Teiidae) del bolsón arido de Lagunillas, Cordillera de Mérida, Venezuela. Rev. UNELLEZ de Ciencia y Tecnologia 13(2): 127-144 HARVEY, MICHAEL B.; GABRIEL N. UGUETO & RONALD L. GUTBERLET, Jr. 2012. Review of Teiid Morphology with a Revised Taxonomy and Phylogeny of the Teiidae (Lepidosauria: Squamata). Zootaxa 3459: 1–156 - get paper here La Marca, E. & P.J. Soriano 2004. Reptiles de Los Andes de Venezuela. Fundación Polar, Conservación International, CODEPRE-ULA, Fundacite Mérida, BIOGEOS. Mérida, Venezuela. 173 pp. Meiri, Shai; Aaron M. Bauer, Allen Allison, Fernando Castro-Herrera, Laurent Chirio, Guarino Colli, Indraneil Das, Tiffany M. Doan, Frank Glaw, Lee L. Grismer, Marinus Hoogmoed, Fred Kraus, Matthew LeBreton, Danny Meirte, Zoltán T. Nagy, Cristiano d 2017. Extinct, obscure or imaginary: the lizard species with the smallest ranges. Diversity and Distributions - 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 RIVAS, GILSON A.; CÉSAR R. MOLINA, GABRIEL N. UGUETO, TITO R. BARROS, CÉSAR L. BAR- RIO-AMORÓS & PHILIPPE J. R. KOK 2012. Reptiles of Venezuela: an updated and commented checklist. Zootaxa 3211: 1–64 - get paper here
External links	IUCN Red List http://www.fpolar.org.ve/librorojo/fichas/150.htm Google images

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