Pholidoscelis polops (COPE, 1862)

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Higher Taxa	Teiidae, Teiinae, Gymnophthalmoidea, Sauria, Squamata (lizards)
Subspecies
Common Names	E: Pholidoscelis polops (Cope, St. Croix Ameiva
Synonym	Ameiva polops COPE 1862: 66 Ameiva Örstedii REINHARDT & LÜTKEN 1863 Ameiva polops — BOULENGER 1885: 350 Ameiva polops — GRANT 1937: 510 Ameiva polops — SCHWARTZ & HENDERSON 1991: 200 Ameiva polops — HARVEY et al. 2012 Pholidoscelis polops — GOICOECHEA et al. 2016 Ameiva polops — ANGELI et al. 2018
Distribution	Puerto Rico Bank: US Vigin Islands, St. Croix Type locality: St. Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands.
Reproduction	oviparous
Types	Holotype: USNM 30695; syntypes: ZMUC R.4355-4356. Other specimens exist in the University of Puerto Rico, Biology Museum, Rio Piedras Campus, (UPRRP 3675-3677-3679) and at the University of Michigan, Museum of Zoology (UMMZ 88236, 80603-04) in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Syntypes: ZMB, ZMUC [Örstedii]
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Comment	Illustrations: Cope, 1895 (as A. leucomelas); Grant, 1937; Heatwole and Torres, 1967; Philibosian and Yntema, 1977; MacLean, 1982.
Etymology	P. polops might be from the Greek πολύοπες (= with many holes), perhaps in reference to the large number of femoral pores in this species.
References	Angeli NF. 2012. Ameiva polops (Saint Croix Ameiva). Conservation. Caribbean Herpetology 45: 1 - get paper here Angeli, N. F., Lundgren, I. F., Pollock, C. G., Hillis-Starr, Z. M. and Fitzgerald, L. A. 2018. Dispersal and population state of an endangered island lizard following a conservation translocation. Ecol Appl. doi:10.1002/eap.1650 - get paper here Barbour, Thomas 1930. Some faunistic changes in the Lesser Antilles. Proc. New England Zool. Club 11: 73-85 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 Cope, E.D. 1862. Synopsis of the species of Holcosus and Ameiva, with diagnoses of new West Indian and South American Colubridae. Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia 14: 60-82. - get paper here Cope, E.D. 1895. The Batrachia and Reptilia of the University of Pennsylvania West Indian expedition of 1890 and 1891. Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia 46 [1894]: 429-442 - get paper here Dodd, C. K., Jr. 1980. Ameiva polops. Catalogue of American Amphibians and Reptiles (240. - get paper here Dodd, C. Kenneth, Jr. 1979. A bibliography of endangered and threatened amphibians and reptiles in the United States and its territories (conservation, distribution, natural history, status). Smithsonian Herp. Inf. Serv. (46): 1-35 - 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 Grant, C. 1937. Herpetological notes with new species from the American and British Virgin Islands, 1936. J. Dept. Agric. Puerto Rico 21: 503-522. Heatwole, H.,and Torres, F. 1967. Distribution and geographic variation of the Ameivas of Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands. Stud. Fauna Curaçao and Carib. Is. 24(92):63-1 11. - get paper here HURTADO, LUIS A.; CARLOS A. SANTAMARIA & LEE A. FITZGERALD 2014. The phylogenetic position of the Critically Endangered Saint Croix ground lizard Ameiva polops: revisiting molecular systematics of West Indian Ameiva. Zootaxa 3794 (2): 254–262 - get paper here MacLean, W.P. 1982. Reptiles and amphibians of the Virgin Islands. MacMillan Caribbean, London: vii + 54 pp. Philibosian, R. & R. Ruibal 1971. Conservation of the Lizard Ameiva polops in the Virgin Islands Herpetologica 27 (4): 450-454. - get paper here Philibosian, R. and Yntema, J.A. 1977. Annotated checklist of the birds, mammals, reptiles, and amphibians of the Virgin Islands & Puerto Rico. Information Services, Frederiksted, St. Croix, 48 pp. Philibosian, R.; Yntema, J. A. 1976. Records and status of some reptiles and amphibians in the Virgin Islands. I. 1968-1975. Herpetologica 32 (1): 81-85 - get paper here Philibosian, R.; Yntema, J. A. 1978. Records and status of some reptiles and amphibians in the Virgin Islands. II. 1975-1976. Herpetologica 34 (1): 47-51 - get paper here Schwartz, A. & Henderson, R.W. 1991. Amphibians and Reptiles of the West Indies. University of Florida Press, Gainesville, 720 pp.
External links	IUCN Red List National Center for Biotechnology Information http://www.kingsnake.com/westindian/diapsida1.html http://fwie.fw.vt.edu/WWW/esis/lists/e154006.htm http://endangered.fws.gov/i/C1M.html http://zoobank.org/urn:lsid:zoobank.org:pub:3D161544-0CD0-495E-A675… http://insider.si.edu/2017/10/mongoose-wiped-now-nicole-angeli-wants-st… Google images

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