Cnemidophorus vanzoi (BASKIN & WILLIAMS, 1966)

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Higher Taxa	Teiidae, Teiinae, Gymnophthalmoidea, Sauria, Squamata (lizards)
Subspecies
Common Names	E: Maria Islands Whiptail, Saint Lucian whiptail, Vanzo's Whiptail
Synonym	Ameiva vanzoi BASKIN & WILLIAMS 1966: 146 Cnemidophorus vanzoi — MASLIN & SECOY 1986 Cnemidophorus vanzoi — SCHWARTZ & HENDERSON 1991: 385 Cnemidophorus vanzoi — UGUETO et al. 2010 Cnemidophorus vanzoi — HARVEY et al. 2012
Distribution	Maria Island (off SE coast of St. Lucia) Type locality: Southernmost of 2 Maria Islands off southeastern end of St. Lucia.
Reproduction	oviparous
Types	Holotype: MCZ 69112.
Diagnosis	Additional details, e.g. a detailed description or comparisons (47 characters), are available for collaborators and contributors. Please contact us for details.
Comment	Group: member of the lemniscatus group, see C. lemniscatus for details. For illustrations see Geoghegan and Renard, 1985. Not mentioned in REEDER et al. (2002) although they cite Presch (1971).
Etymology	Named after Professor Dr. Paulo Emilio Vanzolini (1924-2013), a zoologist and herpetologist, who worked at the American Museum of Natural History, New York (late 1970s-1980s).
References	Baskin, J. N. and E. E. Williams. 1966. The Lesser Antillean Ameiva (Sauria,Teiidae). Re-evaluation, zoogeography, and the effects of predation. Studies Fauna Curacao Carib. Isl. 23: 144-176. - get paper here Beolens, Bo; Michael Watkins, and Michael Grayson 2011. The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, USA - get paper here Funk, Stephan M. & John E. Fa 2006. Phylogeography of the endemic St. Lucia whiptail lizard Cnemidophorus vanzoi: Conservation genetics at the species boundary. Conservation Genetics 7: 651–663 - get paper here Geoghegan, T., and Renard, Y. 1985. Maria Islands Nature Reserve Interpretive Guide. ENCAMP, St. Lucia National Trust: 32pp. 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 Lewis, Todd R. 2001. Reptile observations on the Maria Islands: two satellite islands of St. Lucia (West Indies). Herpetological Bulletin (77): 25-28 - get paper here Malhotra, A. & Thorpe, R.S. 1999. Reptiles & Amphibians of the Eastern Caribbean. MacMillan, London & Oxford Maslin, T. & Secoy, D.M. 1986. A checklist of the lizard genus Cnemidophorus (Teiidae). Contr. Zool. Univ. Colorado Mus. 1: 1-60 Presch, W. 1971. Tongue structure of the teiid lizard genera Ameiva and Cnemidophorus with a reallocation of Ameiva vanzoi. Journal of Herpetology 5 (3-4): 183-185 - get paper here REEDER, T.W.; CHARLES J. COLE AND HERBERT C. DESSAUER 2002. Phylogenetic Relationships of Whiptail Lizards of the Genus Cnemidophorus (Squamata: Teiidae): A Test of Monophyly, Reevaluation of Karyotypic Evolution, and Review of Hybrid Origins. American Museum Novitates 3365: 1-64 - 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 Ugueto, Gabriel N.; Michael B. Harvey, and Gilson A. Rivas 2010. TWO NEW SPECIES OF CNEMIDOPHORUS (SQUAMATA: TEIIDAE) FROM ISLANDS OF THE NORTHEASTERN COAST OF VENEZUELA. Herpetological Monographs 23 (1): 123-153 [2009] - 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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