Pholidoscelis wetmorei (STEJNEGER, 1913)

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Higher Taxa	Teiidae, Teiinae, Gymnophthalmoidea, Sauria, Squamata (lizards)
Subspecies
Common Names	E: Puerto Rican Blue-tailed Groundlizard, Puerto Rican blue-tailed ameiva, Wetmore's Ameiva
Synonym	Ameiva wetmorei STEJNEGER 1913: 70 Ameiva wetmorei — FOWLER 1918 Ameiva wetmorei eleanorae GRANT & ROOSEVELT 1932: 48 Ameiva eleanorae GRANT 1932: 161 Ameiva eleanorae — GRANT 1932: 161 Ameiva wetmorei — SCHWARTZ & HENDERSON 1991: 203 Ameiva wetmorei — HOWER & HEDGES 2003 Ameiva wetmorei — HARVEY et al. 2012 Pholidoscelis wetmorei — GOICOECHEA et al. 2016
Distribution	SW Puerto Rico, Isla Magueyes, Caja de Muertos, Isla Morrillito (=Platillo), Isla Guayacan [HR 30: 109]. Type locality: Above Rio Loco, Guánica, Puerto Rico.
Reproduction	oviparous
Types	Holotype: USNM 49731. UMMZ fide HARVEY et a. 2012. Holotype: UMMZ 73861 [eleanorae]
Diagnosis	DESCRIPTION: Size small (SVL in males to 52 mm, in females to 45 mm); caudal scales smooth and oblique; ventral scales 8 in a transverse row and 30-36 in a often dark mottling along sides of venter; dorsum (females) brown with variably bold ladder or striped middorsal pattern and variable buff to white flank stripe, edged above and below with rust; capable of metachrosis to virtually patternless green-brown or gray-brown; ventral yellow tends to be more extensive and brighter in females; dewlap white to dull gray-green with yellow to orange-red or mustard spot near (but not at) anterodistal edge, scales concolor with dewlap (Schwartz & Henderson 1991: 204).
Comment	Illustrations: MacLean, 1982.
Etymology	Named after "Frank" Alexander Wetmore (1886-1978), American ornithologist and avian paleontologist. He was a bird taxidermist at the Denver Museum of Natural History, Colorado (1909).
References	Beolens, Bo; Michael Watkins, and Michael Grayson 2011. The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, USA - get paper here Fowler, H. W. 1918. Some amphibians and reptiles from Porto Rico and the Virgin Islands. Publ. Carnegie Inst. Washington, 252: 1-16. 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. 1932. Herpetological notes from the Puerto Rico area. J. Dept. Agric. Puerto Rico 16 (1): 161-165 Grant, C. & Roosevelt, C. 1932. The herpetology of Caja de Muertos Island and Cardona Key, Porto Rico. J. Dept. Agric. Puerto Rico 16: 47-49 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 MacLean, W.P. 1982. Reptiles and amphibians of the Virgin Islands. MacMillan Caribbean, London: vii + 54 pp. Mayer,G.C. & Lazell,J. 1988. Distributional records for reptiles and amphibians from the Puerto Rico Bank. Herpetological Review 19 91): 23-24 - get paper here Schwartz, A. & Henderson, R.W. 1991. Amphibians and Reptiles of the West Indies. University of Florida Press, Gainesville, 720 pp. Stejneger, L. 1913. A new lizard from Porto Rico. Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington 26: 69-71. - get paper here Werning, H. 2012. Zwischen Anolis und Cycluren: Unterwegs auf Puerto Rico. Reptilia (Münster) 17 (95): 100-109 - get paper here
External links	IUCN Red List National Center for Biotechnology Information Google images

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