Pholidoscelis erythrocephalus (SHAW, 1802)
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Pholidoscelis erythrocephalus
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| Higher Taxa | Teiidae, Teiinae, Gymnophthalmoidea, Sauria, Squamata (lizards) |
| Subspecies | |
| Common Names | E: Red-faced Groundlizard, St. Christopher Ameiva |
| Synonym | Lacerta erythrocephala SHAW 1802: 236 Ameiva erythrocephala DAUDIN 1802: 22 Amiva erythrops COPE 1871: 221 Ameiva erythrops — BARBOUR 1923: 5 Ameiva nevisana SCHMIDT 1920 Ameiva erythrocephala — SCHWARTZ & HENDERSON 1991: 190 Ameiva erythrocephala — HOWER & HEDGES 2003 Ameiva erythrocephala — HARVEY et al. 2012 Pholidoscelis erythrocephala — GOICOECHEA et al. 2016 Pholidoscelis erythrocephalus — TUCKER et al. 2016 |
| Distribution | Lesser Antilles: St. Eustatius, St. Christopher, Nevis Type locality: St. Christopher. |
| Reproduction | oviparous |
| Types | Holotype: Unlocated. Synypes: (5) ANSP 9892-96; West Indies, St. Eustasia [erythrops] Holotype: AMNH 1635, from Nevis Island [nevisana] |
| Diagnosis | |
| Comment | This taxon was formally described the same year that Shaw described it, by Daudin (1802: 122), as Ameiva erythrocephala, and has been credited to Daudin in the literature ever since (e.g., Schwartz and Henderson, 1988: 63). However, as Daudin's volume 3 was published in August 1802, at least seven months after Shaw's work appeared, Daudin's name is a junior synonym of Lacerta erythrocephala Shaw, Ameiva erythrocephala (Shaw, 1802) [SMITH & DAVID, from the introduction to the facsimile reprint of SHAW 1802]. |
| Etymology | named after the Greek words “erythros” (= red) and cephale = “head”, for the reddish head color. |
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