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Leiocephalus schreibersii (GRAVENHORST, 1838)

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Higher TaxaLeiocephalidae, Iguania, Sauria, Squamata (lizards)
SubspeciesLeiocephalus schreibersii schreibersii (GRAVENHORST 1838)
Leiocephalus schreibersii nesomorus SCHWARTZ 1968 
Common NamesE: Red-sided Curlytail, Red-sided Curly-tailed Lizard
G: Schreibers Glattkopfleguan 
SynonymPristinotus schreibersii GRAVENHORST 1838: 739
Steironotus schreibersii — FITZINGER 1843
Leiocephalus schreibersii — COPE 1868
Tropidurus schreibersi FITZINGER 1826 (nomen nudum)
Liocephalus schreibersii — BOULENGER 1885: 162
Liocephalus [sic] schreibersii — FISCHER 1888: 29
Leiocephalus schreibersii — MERTENS 1938
Leiocephalus schreibersii — MERTENS 1939: 51
Leiocephalus schreibersii — COCHRAN 1941
Leiocephalus schreibersii schreibersii — CONANT & COLLINS 1991: 115
Leiocephalus schreibersi — SCHWARTZ & HENDERSON 1991: 449
Leiocephalus schreibersii— PREGILL 1992: 51
Leiocephalus schreibersii schreibersii — HEDGES et al. 2019

Leiocephalus schreibersii nesomorus SCHWARTZ 1968
Leiocephalus schreibersii nesomorus — HEDGES et al. 2019 
DistributionHispaniola (Haiti, NW/SW Dominican Republic, most of the xeric lowlands), Ile de la Tortue

USA (introduced to Florida)

schreibersii: all above range except Île de la Tortue. Introduced to Florida. Type locality: 'San Domingo"; restricted by Schwartz, 1968c, to the vicinity of Port-au-Prince, Département de l'Ouest, Haiti.

nesomorus: Île de la Tortue (Haiti)  
Reproductionoviparous 
TypesNeotype: SMF 26228, an adult male from Saint Marc, Province Artibonite, Haiti, collected 19 April 1939 by Robert Mertens, designated by Köhler et al. (2016: 227 and Figs. 11 and 12).Holotype: Unlocated (Pregill (1992:51), but originally deposited in the Breslau Museum (= now Museum of Natural History at Wrocław University) where it was unlocated (Borczyk & Skawiński 2019).
Holotype: MCZ 81120 [nesomorus] 
DiagnosisUnfortunately we had to temporarily remove additional information as this was scraped by multiple AI companies who sell that data to their customers. These details, e.g. detailed descriptions or comparisons (about 1906 characters), are available for collaborators and contributors. Please contact us for details. 
CommentIllustrations: Klingel, 1929; Mertens, 1939; Mertens, 1940; Cochran, 1941; Henderson and Schwartz, 1984 a. 
EtymologyNamed after Dr. Carl Franz Anton Ritter von Schreibers (1775-1852), a zoologist who collected in Brazil (1817).

L. schreibersii nesomorus was named after Greek νῆσος (= island) and μετέχω (= to have a share of), an allusion to the fact that no other congeners occur on Île de la Tortue. 
References
  • Ackermann, Thomas 2006. Schreibers Glattkopfleguan (Leiocephalus schreibersii). Natur und Tier Verlag (Münster), 64 pp. - 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
  • Borczyk B, Skawiński T. 2019. Tracking down the lizards from Gravenhorst's collection at the University of Wrocław: type specimens of Callopistes maculatus Gravenhorst, 1838 and three Liolaemus species rediscovered. PeerJ 7:e6525 - get paper here
  • Boulenger, G.A. 1885. Catalogue of the lizards in the British Museum (Natural History). Vol. 2, Second edition. London, xiii+497 pp. - get paper here
  • Cochran, D.M. 1941. The herpetology of Hispaniola. Bull. US Natl. Mus. 177: vii + 398 pp. - get paper here
  • Conant,R. & Collins,J.T. 1991. A Field Guide to Reptiles and Amphibians of Eastern/Central North America, 3rd ed. Houghton Mifflin (Boston/New York), xx + 450 p.
  • Dost, W. 2005. Stichpunktartige Bemerkungen zu Pflege und zucht diverser Iguaniden. Iguana Rundschreiben 18 (1): 16-24
  • Esterbauer, Hans E 2014. Bau einer Styropor-Terrarienanlage zur tiergerechten Haltung, Nachzucht und Aufzucht von Echsen. Draco 16 (56): 60-66 - get paper here
  • Fischer, J.G. 1888. Über eine Kollektion Reptilien und Amphibien von Hayti. Jahrb. Hamburg. Wiss. Anst. 5: 23-45. - get paper here
  • Geißler, L. 2008. Herpetologische Beobachtungen auf der Halbinsel Barahona, Dominikanische Republik. Elaphe 16 (1): 48-52
  • Gibbons, Whit; Judy Greene, and Tony Mills 2009. LIZARDS AND CROCODILIANS OF THE SOUTHEAST. University of Georgia Press, 240 pp.
  • Gravenhorst, J. L. C. 1838. Beiträge zur genaueren Kenntniss einiger Eidechsengattungen. Nova Acta Acad. Caes. Leop.-Carol. 18: 712-784 [1837]
  • Henderson, R.W., and Schwartz, A. 1984. A guide to the identification of the amphibians and reptiles of Hispaniola. Spec. PubI. Milwaukee Public Mus. Biol. and Geol. (4):1-70.
  • Jäger, F. 2006. Reisetipp für Leguanfreunde: Der Lago Enriquillo im Süden Dominikanischen Republik. Iguana Rundschreiben 19 (1): 9-16
  • Klingel,G.C. 1929. Lizard hunting in the Black Republic. Nat. Hist. 29(5):451-64.
  • KÖHLER, GUNTHER; MARCOS J. RODRÍGUEZ BOBADILLA, S. BLAIR HEDGES 2016. A new dune-dwelling lizard of the genus Leiocephalus (Iguania, Leiocephalidae) from the Dominican Republic. Zootaxa 4121 (5): 517–532 - get paper here
  • Mertens, R. 1938. Amphibien und Reptilien aus Santo Domingo, gesammelt von Prof. Dr. H. Böker. Senckenbergiana 20 (5): 332-342
  • Mertens, R. 1939. Herpetologische Ergebnisse einer Reise nach der Insel Hispaniola, Westindien. Abh. senckenb. naturf. Ges. (Frankfurt) 449: 1-84.
  • Mertens, R. 1940. Zoologische Reisen auf der Insel Hispaniola (from Tierleben der Tropen). Verlag Dr. Waldemar Kramer, Frankfurt am Main, 155-241.
  • Meshaka Jr., Walter E. 2011. A RUNAWAY TRAIN IN THE MAKING: THE EXOTIC AMPHIBIANS, REPTILES, TURTLES, AND CROCODILIANS OF FLORIDA. Herp. Cons. Biol. 6 (Monograph 1): 1-101 - get paper here
  • Pregill,G.K. 1992. Systematics of the West Indian Lizard Genus Leiocephalus (Squamata: Iguania: Tropiduridae). Misc. Publ. Univ. Kans. Mus. Nat. Hist. 84: 1-69 - get paper here
  • Reif, J. 2005. Haltung und Zucht von Leiocephalus s. schreibersi (GRAVENHORST 1838). Iguana Rundschreiben 18 (1): 9-15
  • Schmidt, K. P. 1921. Notes on the herpetology of Santo Domingo. Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist. 44: 7-20. - get paper here
  • Schreiber, M. C., J. S. Parmerlee, Jr., and R. Powell 1995. Leiocephalus schreibersii. Catalogue of American Amphibians and Reptiles (613): 1-4 - get paper here
  • Schreiber, Michael C.;Powell, Robert;Parmalee, John S., Jr.;Lathrop, Amy;Smith, Donald D. 1993. Natural history of a small population of Leiocephalus schreibersii (Sauria: Tropiduridae) from altered habitat in the Dominican Republic. Florida Scientist 56: 84-90 - get paper here
  • Schwartz, A. 1968. The Leiocephalus (Lacertilia, Iguanidae) of Hispaniola. III. Leiocephalus schreibersi, L. semilineatus, and L. pratensis. Journal of Herpetology 24 (1—4): 39—63 - get paper here
  • Schwartz, A. & Henderson, R.W. 1991. Amphibians and Reptiles of the West Indies. University of Florida Press, Gainesville, 720 pp.
 
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