Pholidoscelis fuscatus (GARMAN, 1887)

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Higher Taxa	Teiidae, Teiinae, Gymnophthalmoidea, Sauria, Squamata (lizards)
Subspecies
Common Names	E: Dominica Groundlizard, Dominican Ameiva
Synonym	Ameiva fuscata GARMAN 1887: 5 Ameiva fuscata — GÜNTHER 1888: 363 Ameiva fuscata — SCHWARTZ & HENDERSON 1991: 193 Ameiva fuscata — HOWER & HEDGES 2003 Ameiva fuscata —HARVEY et al. 2012 Pholidoscelis fuscata — GOICOECHEA et al. 2016 Pholidoscelis fuscatus — TUCKER et al. 2016 Pholidoscelis fuscatus — THORPE 2022
Distribution	Lesser Antilles: Dominica Type locality: Dominica.
Reproduction	oviparous
Types	Syntype: MCZ 6087.
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Comment
Etymology	P. fuscatus is from the Latin fuscus (= brown or swarthy) and refers to the color of the dorsum in these lizards.
References	Barbour, Thomas 1930. Some faunistic changes in the Lesser Antilles. Proc. New England Zool. Club 11: 73-85 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 Grotbeck, Victoria L; Grace E Garrison, Maria A Eifler, Douglas A Eifler 2019. Characteristics of grouping in the Dominican Ground Lizard, Pholidoscelis fuscatus (Fitzinger, 1843). Herpetology Notes 12: 273-278 - get paper here Günther,A. 1888. Notes on reptiles and frogs from Dominica, West Indies. Ann. Mag. nat. Hist. (6) 2: 362-366 - 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 Malhotra, A. & Thorpe, R.S. 1999. Reptiles & Amphibians of the Eastern Caribbean. MacMillan, London & Oxford Malhotra, A. and R. S. Thorpe. 1995. Ameiva fuscata. Catalogue of American Amphibians and Reptiles (606): 1-3 - get paper here Schwartz, A. & Henderson, R.W. 1991. Amphibians and Reptiles of the West Indies. University of Florida Press, Gainesville, 720 pp. Somma, L.A. & G.R. Brooks 1976. Reproduction in Anolis oculatus, Ameiva fuscata and Mabuya mabouya from Dominica Copeia 1976 (2): 249-256. - 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 http://www.kingsnake.com/westindian/diapsida1.html Google images

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