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Leiocephalus vinculum COCHRAN, 1928

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Higher TaxaLeiocephalidae, Iguania, Sauria, Squamata (lizards)
Subspecies 
Common NamesE: Gonave Curlytail, Cochran's Curlytail Lizard 
SynonymLeiocephalus vinculum COCHRAN 1928: 54
Leiocephalus personatus vinculum — COCHRAN 1941
Leiocephalus vinculum — SCHWARTZ 1967: 42
Leiocephalus vinculum — SCHWARTZ & HENDERSON 1991: 454
Leiocephalus vinculum— PREGILL 1992: 53 
DistributionHispaniola: Ile de la Gonave (Haiti)

Type locality: Pointe à Raquettes, Île de la Gonâve, Haiti.

INCERTAE SEDIS: Single specimen from Hinche, Haiti, not subspecifically assigned.  
Reproductionoviparous 
TypesHolotype: MCZ 25435, adult male 
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CommentSubspecies: With the reallocation of Leiocephalus altavelensis (Noble & Hassler 1933) to L. barahonensis, and the recognition of L. endomychus (Schwartz 1967) as a distinct species, L. vinculum is restricted to the monotypic population on Ile de la Gonave.

Reference images: see Uetz et al. 2024 for high-resolution reference images for this species. 
EtymologyNamed after Latin vincio, vinctus = bind, vinculum = anything used for binding, presumably an allusion to the strap-like scale separating the prefrontals from the canthals. The etymology was not explained by Cochran though. 
References
  • Cochran, D. M. 1928. The herpetological collections made in Haiti and its adjoining islands by Walter J. Eyerdam. Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington 41: 53-59. - get paper here
  • Cochran, D.M. 1941. The herpetology of Hispaniola. Bull. US Natl. Mus. 177: vii + 398 pp. - 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
  • Schwartz, A. 1967. The Leiocephalus (Lacertilia: Iguanidae) of Hispaniola. II. The Leiocephalus personatus complex. Tulane Studies in Zoology 14: 1-53 - get paper here
  • Schwartz, A. & Henderson, R.W. 1991. Amphibians and Reptiles of the West Indies. University of Florida Press, Gainesville, 720 pp.
  • 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
 
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