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Leiocephalus greenwayi BARBOUR & SHREVE, 1935

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Higher TaxaLeiocephalidae, Iguania, Sauria, Squamata (lizards)
Subspecies 
Common NamesE: East Plana Curlytail, Plana Cay Curlytail Lizard 
SynonymLeiocephalus greenwayi BARBOUR & SHREVE 1935: 358
Leiocephalus greenwayi — SCHWARTZ & HENDERSON 1991: 429
Leiocephalus greenwayi — PREGILL 1992: 43 
DistributionBahamas (East Plana Cay)

Type locality: East Plana Cay, Bahama Islands.  
Reproductionoviparous 
TypesHolotype: MCZ 36711. 
DiagnosisDiagnosis: Allied to Leiocephalus psammodromus but differing in having the second prefrontals in contact with each other and usually larger than in psammodromus. The lateral scales are larger, and the tail is not as strongly compressed. The new form also differs greatly in coloration from its ally [Barbour & Shreve 1935: 358]. 
CommentIllustrations: Rabb, 1957.

Abundance: only known from the type locality (Meiri et al. 2017). 
EtymologyNamed after James Cowan Greenway Jr. (1903-1989), Curator of Birds, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard. 
References
  • Barbour, T. and B. Shreve. 1935. Concerning some Bahamian reptiles, with notes on the fauna. Proc. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist. 40: 347-365.
  • Beolens, Bo; Michael Watkins, and Michael Grayson 2011. The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, USA - get paper here
  • 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
  • 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
  • Rabb, G.B. 1957. A study of variation in the iguanid lizards of the Leiocephalus carinatus complex. Ph.D. Thesis, Univ. Microfilms, Ann Arbor: xiii + 159 pp.
  • Schwartz, A. & Henderson, R.W. 1991. Amphibians and Reptiles of the West Indies. University of Florida Press, Gainesville, 720 pp.
 
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