Pholidoscelis pluvianotatus (GARMAN, 1887)

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Higher Taxa	Teiidae, Teiinae, Gymnophthalmoidea, Sauria, Squamata (lizards)
Subspecies
Common Names	E: Montserrat Groundlizard, Montserrat Ameiva
Synonym	Ameiva pluvianotata GARMAN 1887: 6 Ameiva pluvianotata pluvianotata — SCHWARTZ & THOMAS 1975 Ameiva pluvianotata — SCHWARTZ & HENDERSON 1991: 199 Ameiva pluvianotata — HOWER & HEDGES 2003 Ameiva pluvianotata — HARVEY et al. 2012 Pholidoscelis pluvianotata — GOICOECHEA et al. 2016 Pholidoscelis pluvianotatus — THORPE 2022
Distribution	Lesser Antilles: Montserrat Type locality: Plymouth, St. Anthony's Parish, Montserrat.
Reproduction	oviparous
Types	Syntypes: MCZ 6086, now ZMB 29421
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Comment	Subspecies: Ameiva pluvianotata atrata GARMAN, 1888 has been elevated to full species status. Reference images: see Uetz et al. 2024 for high-resolution reference images for this species.
Etymology	Apparently named after Latin pluvius, pluviosus = rainy, and Latin notatus = mark, possibly a reference to the speckled dorsum in this species although Garman does not comment on the etymology.
References	Barbour, Thomas 1930. Some faunistic changes in the Lesser Antilles. Proc. New England Zool. Club 11: 73-85 Bauer, A.M. and R. Günther 1994. An annotated type catalogue of the teiid and microteiid lizards in the Zoological Museum, Berlin (Reptilia: Squamata: Teiidae and Gymnophthalmidae). Mitt. Zool. Mus. Berlin 70:267-280 - get paper here Daltry, Jennifer C. 2007. An introduction to the herpetofauna of Antigua, Barbuda and Redonda, with some conservation recommendations. Applied Herpetology 4 (2): 97-130. - 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 Schwartz, A. & Henderson, R.W. 1991. Amphibians and Reptiles of the West Indies. University of Florida Press, Gainesville, 720 pp. Thorpe, R.S. 2022. Reptiles of the Lesser Antilles. Chimaira, Frankfurt, 608 pp. - get paper here Uetz, P.H.; Patel, M.; Gbadamosi, Z.; Nguyen, A.; Shoope, S. 2024. A Reference Database of Reptile Images. Taxonomy 4: 723–732 - get paper here
External links	IUCN Red List National Center for Biotechnology Information Google images

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