Pholidoscelis corvinus (COPE, 1861)

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Higher Taxa	Teiidae, Teiinae, Gymnophthalmoidea, Sauria, Squamata (lizards)
Subspecies
Common Names	E: Sombrero Groundlizard, Sombrero Ameiva
Synonym	Ameiva corvina COPE 1861: 312 Ameiva corvina — SCHWARTZ & HENDERSON 1991: 189 Ameiva corvina — HARVEY et al. 2012 Pholidoscelis corvina — GOICOECHEA et al. 2016 Pholidoscelis corvinus — TUCKER et al. 2016 Pholidoscelis corvinus — THORPE 2022
Distribution	Lesser Antilles: Sombrero I Type locality: Sombrero Island.
Reproduction	oviparous
Types	Syntypes: ANSP 9115-30, MCZ 10525, MCZ 5531, MCZ 3613, MCZ 52215-16.
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Comment	Abundance: only known from the type locality (Meiri et al. 2017).
Etymology	P. corvinus is from the Latin corvinus (= of ravens), an obvious reference to melanism in these lizards.
References	Barbour, Thomas 1930. Some faunistic changes in the Lesser Antilles. Proc. New England Zool. Club 11: 73-85 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. Cope, E.D. 1861. On the Reptilia of Sombrero and Bermuda. Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia 13: 312-314. - 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 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 Schwartz, A. & Henderson, R.W. 1991. Amphibians and Reptiles of the West Indies. University of Florida Press, Gainesville, 720 pp. Shew, J. J., E. J. Censky, and R. Powell 2002. Ameiva corvina. Catalogue of American Amphibians and Reptiles 747: 1-2 - get paper here Thorpe, R.S. 2022. Reptiles of the Lesser Antilles. Chimaira, Frankfurt, 608 pp. - get paper here Tucker, Derek B.; Guarino R. Colli, Lilian G. Giugliano, S. Blair Hedges, Catriona R. Hendry, Emily Moriarty Lemmon, Alan R. Lemmon, Jack W. Sites Jr., R. Alexander Pyron 2016. Methodological congruence in phylogenomic analyses with morphological support for teiid lizards (Sauria: Teiidae). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 103: 75-84 - get paper here
External links	IUCN Red List National Center for Biotechnology Information Google images

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