Leiocephalus cubensis (GRAY, 1840)
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Leiocephalus cubensis
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| Higher Taxa | Leiocephalidae, Iguania, Sauria, Squamata (lizards) |
| Subspecies | Leiocephalus cubensis cubensis GRAY 1840 Leiocephalus cubensis gigas SCHWARTZ 1959 Leiocephalus cubensis minor VARONA & GARRIDO 1970 Leiocephalus cubensis pambasileus SCHWARTZ 1959 Leiocephalus cubensis paraphrus SCHWARTZ 1959 |
| Common Names | E: Cuban Brown Curlytail, Cuban Curlytail Lizard |
| Synonym | Tropidurus (Leiolaemus) cubensis GRAY 1840: 110 Holotropis microlophus COCTEAU & BIBRON 1838 (part.) Holotropis vittatus HALLOWELL 1856: 151 Liocephalus vittatus — BOULENGER 1885: 163 (part.) Liocephalus [sic] vittatus — FISCHER 1888: 27 Leiocephalus cubensis — STEJNEGER 1917: 273 Leiocephalus raviceps — COCHRAN 1934: 39 (part.) Leiocephalus cubensis — SCHWARTZ & HENDERSON 1991: 427 Leiocephalus cubensis — PREGILL 1992: 41 Leiocephalus cubensis — RODRÍGUEZ SCHETTINO 1999: 123 Leiocephalus cubensis gigas SCHWARTZ 1959 Leiocephalus cubensis gigas — HEDGES et al. 2019 Leiocephalus cubensis minor VARONA & GARRIDO 1970 Leiocephalus cubensis minor — HEDGES et al. 2019 Leiocephalus cubensis pambasileus SCHWARTZ 1959 Leiocephalus cubensis pambasileus — HEDGES et al. 2019 Leiocephalus cubensis paraphrus SCHWARTZ 1959 Leiocephalus cubensis paraphrus — HEDGES et al. 2019 |
| Distribution | Cuba, Isla de la Juventud, Cayos de San Felipe, Archipelago de los Canarreos, Archipelago de Sabana-Camaguey cubensis: Cuba; record for Cabo de San Antonio, Peninsula de Guanahacabibes, highly doubtful. Type locality: Cuba; restricted by Schwartz, 1959d, to vicinity of Guanabacoa, La Habana Province, Cuba. gigas: Isla de la Juventud. minor: Cayos de San Felipe. pambasileus: Archipiélago de bs Canarreos. paraphrus: Jardines de la Reina. INCERTAE SEDIS: Material from Archipiélago de Sabana-Camagüey unassigned subspecifically. |
| Reproduction | oviparous |
| Types | Holotype: BMNH XXIII.98a Holotype: AMNH 81056 [gigas] Holotype: CZACC = IZ 2754 [minor] Holotype: AMNH 81068 [pambasileus] Holotype: AMNH 78005 [paraphrus] |
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| Comment | Illustrations: Stejneger, 1917; Barbour and Ramsden, 1919; Schwartz, 1959d; Vogel, 1965; Vogel, 1966. Synonymy after RODRÍGUEZ SCHETTINO 1999. |
| Etymology | Named after the type locality. L. cubensis gigas is from the Greek γιγας (= giant), undoubtedly an allusion to the fact that this subspecies attains the largest sizes of any in the subspecies. L. cubensis minor is from the Latin (= less), certainly a reference to the relatively small size of this subspecies. L. cubensis pambasileus is from the Greek (= lord of all he surveys), possibly a reference to these lizards exploiting elevated perches. L. cubensis paraphrus, from the Greek παράγρ (= beside or near) and αφρός (= foam), perhaps an allusion to the proximity of the type locality to breakers crashing on the southernmost point of a large unnamed key. |
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