Pholidoscelis corax (CENSKY & PAULSON, 1992)

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Higher Taxa	Teiidae, Teiinae, Gymnophthalmoidea, Sauria, Squamata (lizards)
Subspecies
Common Names	E: Little Scrub Groundlizard, Censky's Ameiva
Synonym	Ameiva corax CENSKY & PAULSON 1992: 187 Ameiva corax — HOWER & HEDGES 2003 Ameiva corax — HARVEY et al. 2012 Pholidoscelis corax — GOICOECHEA et al. 2016 Pholidoscelis corax — THORPE 2022
Distribution	Lesser Antilles (Anguilla) Type locality: "south side of Little Scrub Island, off the northeastern tip of Anguilla"
Reproduction	oviparous
Types	Holotype: MCZ 77137
Diagnosis	Diagnosis: A moderate-sized species (males to 132 mm SVL, females to 96 mm SVL) with low number of granules at midbody (127-159), high femoral pore count (58-72), moderate number of subdigital lamellae on the fourth toe (33-42), high number of scales in the fifteenth caudal verticil (28-38), and moderate number of transverse rows of enlarged ventral scales (30-37) (Table 2). The dorsum is black, sometimes dark brown, and patternless, and the ventral color is slate gray to black. (Censky & Paulson 1992) Unfortunately we had to temporarily remove additional information as this was scraped by multiple AI companies who sell that data to their customers. These details, e.g. detailed descriptions or comparisons (about 1821 characters) are available for collaborators and contributors. Please contact us for details.
Comment	Abundance: only known from the type locality (Meiri et al. 2017).
Etymology	P. corax is from the Greek (= raven-black) and refers to the coloration of this species and alludes to its similarity to P. corvinus.
References	Censky, E. J. and D. R. Paulson. 1992. Revision of the Ameiva (Reptilia: Teiidae) of the Anguilla Bank, West Indies. Annals of the Carnegie Museum 61:177-195. Garrison, G., M. Phillips, M. Eifler & D. Eifler 2016. Intraspecific variation in opportunistic use of trophic resources by the lizard Ameiva corax (Squamata: Teiidae) Amphibia-Reptilia, 37(3): 331-334. - get paper here Goicoechea, N., Frost, D. R., De la Riva, I., Pellegrino, K. C. M., Sites, J., Rodrigues, M. T. and Padial, J. M. 2016. Molecular systematics of teioid lizards (Teioidea/Gymnophthalmoidea: Squamata) based on the analysis of 48 loci under tree-alignment and similarity-alignment. Cladistics, doi: 10.1111/cla.12150 - get paper here 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 Hower, Lindsey M., and S. Blair Hedges 2003. Molecular phylogeny and biogeography of West Indian Teiid lizards of the genus Ameiva. Carib. J. Sci. 39 (3):298-306. - 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 24 (2): 262-273 - get paper here Thorpe, R.S. 2022. Reptiles of the Lesser Antilles. Chimaira, Frankfurt, 608 pp. - get paper here White, A. M., E. J. Censky, and R, Powell 2002. Ameiva corax. Catalogue of American Amphibians and Reptiles 746.1-746.2. - get paper here White, April M.; Robert Powell, Ellen J. Censky 2002. On the thermal biology of Ameiva (Teiidae) from the Anguilla Bank, West Indies: Does melanism matter? Amphibia-Reptilia 23 (4): 517-523 - get paper here
External links	IUCN Red List National Center for Biotechnology Information Google images

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