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Pholidoscelis erythrocephalus (SHAW, 1802)

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Higher TaxaTeiidae, Teiinae, Gymnophthalmoidea, Sauria, Squamata (lizards)
Subspecies 
Common NamesE: Red-faced Groundlizard, St. Christopher Ameiva 
SynonymLacerta erythrocephala SHAW 1802: 236
Ameiva erythrocephala DAUDIN 1802: 22
Amiva erythrops COPE 1871: 221
Ameiva erythrocephala — GARMAN 1887: 9
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
Pholidoscelis erythrocephalus — THORPE 2022 
DistributionLesser Antilles: St. Eustatius, St. Christopher, Nevis

Type locality: St. Christopher.  
Reproductionoviparous 
TypesHolotype: Unlocated.
Synypes: (5) ANSP 9892-96; West Indies, St. Eustasia [erythrops]
Holotype: AMNH 1635, from Nevis Island [nevisana] 
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CommentThis 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]. 
Etymologynamed after the Greek words “erythros” (= red) and cephale = “head”, for the reddish head color. 
References
  • Barbour, Thomas 1923. West Indian investigations of 1922. Occasional Papers of the Museum of Zoology, University of Michigan (132): 1-9 - get paper here
  • Barbour, Thomas 1930. Some faunistic changes in the Lesser Antilles. Proc. New England Zool. Club 11: 73-85
  • Daudin, F. M. 1802. Histoire Naturelle, génerale et particulièredes reptiles, ouvrage faisant suite, a l'histoiure naturelle, générale et particulière composée par LECLERC DE BUFFON, et redigée par C. S. SONNINI, vol. 3. F. Dufart, Paris, 452 pp. - get paper here
  • Garman, S. 1887. On the West Indian Teiids in the Museum of Comparative Zoology. Bull. Essex Institute 19: 1-12. - 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
  • Schmidt, K. P. 1920. A new Ameiva from Nevis Island, British West indies. Proc. Linn. Soc. New York 33: 1-2
  • Schwartz, A. & Henderson, R.W. 1991. Amphibians and Reptiles of the West Indies. University of Florida Press, Gainesville, 720 pp.
  • Shaw, GEORGE 1802. General zoology or systematic natural history, vol. 3, Pt 1. Thomas Davison, London, viii+312 pp - 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
  • ZERO, V. H. & EIFLER, D. A. & POWELL, R. 2009. Foraging behavior of the lizard Ameiva erythrocephala DAUDIN, 1802. Herpetozoa 22: - get paper here
 
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