| Higher Taxa | Teiidae, Teiinae, Gymnophthalmoidea, Sauria, Squamata (lizards) |
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| Common Names | E: Montserrat Groundlizard, Montserrat Ameiva |
| Synonym | Ameiva pluvianotata GARMAN 1887: 6
Ameiva pluvianotata pluvianotata — SCHWARTZ & THOMAS 1975
Ameiva pluvianotata — SCHWARTZ & HENDERSON 1991: 199
Ameiva pluvianotata — HOWER & HEDGES 2003
Ameiva pluvianotata — HARVEY et al. 2012
Pholidoscelis pluvianotata — GOICOECHEA et al. 2016
Pholidoscelis pluvianotatus — THORPE 2022 |
| Distribution | Lesser Antilles: Montserrat
Type locality: Plymouth, St. Anthony's Parish, Montserrat.
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| Reproduction | oviparous |
| Types | Syntypes: MCZ 6086, now ZMB 29421 |
| Diagnosis | Additional details, e.g. a detailed description or comparisons (1382 characters), are available for collaborators and contributors. Please contact us for details. |
| Comment | Subspecies: Ameiva pluvianotata atrata GARMAN, 1888 has been elevated to full species status.
Reference images: see Uetz et al. 2024 for high-resolution reference images for this species. |
| Etymology | Apparently named after Latin pluvius, pluviosus = rainy, and Latin notatus = mark, possibly a reference to the speckled dorsum in this species although Garman does not comment on the etymology. |
| References |
- Barbour, Thomas 1930. Some faunistic changes in the Lesser Antilles. Proc. New England Zool. Club 11: 73-85
- Bauer, A.M. and R. Günther 1994. An annotated type catalogue of the teiid and microteiid lizards in the Zoological Museum, Berlin (Reptilia: Squamata: Teiidae and Gymnophthalmidae). Mitt. Zool. Mus. Berlin 70:267-280 - get paper here
- Daltry, Jennifer C. 2007. An introduction to the herpetofauna of Antigua, Barbuda and Redonda, with some conservation recommendations. Applied Herpetology 4 (2): 97-130. - get paper here
- Garman, S. 1887. On the West Indian Teiids in the Museum of Comparative Zoology. Bull. Essex Inst. 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
- 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.
- Thorpe, R.S. 2022. Reptiles of the Lesser Antilles. Chimaira, Frankfurt, 608 pp. - get paper here
- 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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