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Pholidoscelis dorsalis (GRAY, 1838)

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Higher TaxaTeiidae, Teiinae, Gymnophthalmoidea, Sauria, Squamata (lizards)
Subspecies 
Common NamesE: Jamaican Groundlizard, Jamaica Ameiva 
SynonymAmeiva dorsalis GRAY 1838: 277
Ameiva dorsalis — GOSSE 1848: 214
Ameiva dorsalis — SCHWARTZ & HENDERSON 1991: 189
Ameiva dorsalis — HOWER & HEDGES 2003
Ameiva dorsalis — HARVEY et al. 2012
Pholidoscelis dorsalis — GOICOECHEA et al. 2016 
DistributionJamaica

Type locality: South America (in error) and Jamaica.  
Reproductionoviparous 
TypesHolotype: BMNH 111.11a. 
DiagnosisAdditional details, e.g. a detailed description or comparisons (1364 characters), are available for collaborators and contributors. Please contact us for details. 
Comment 
EtymologyPresumably named after Latin dorsalis (of the back), relating to the dorsal pattern. 
References
  • Barbour, T. 1910. Notes on the herpetology of Jamaica. Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool. Harvard 52: 273—301 - get paper here
  • Barbour, T. 1916. Additional notes on West Indian reptiles and amphibians. Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington 29: 215-220. - 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
  • Gosse, P. H. 1848. On the habits of Ameiva dorsalis. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (2) 2: 214-216 - get paper here
  • Grant, C. 1940. The herpetology of Jamaica Il. The reptiles. Bull. Inst. Jamaica., Sci. Ser. 1: 61-148.
  • Gray, J. E. 1838. Catalogue of the slender-tongued saurians, with descriptions of many new genera and species. Part 3. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (1) 1: 388-394 - get paper here
  • Gray, J. E. 1838. Catalogue of the slender-tongued saurians, with descriptions of many new genera and species. Part 1. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (1) 1: 274-283 - 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.
 
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