Pholidoscelis
Pholidoscelis is a genus of lizards that belongs to the family Teiidae. All species are endemic to the West Indies.
| Pholidoscelis | |
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| Common Puerto Rican ameiva (Pholidoscelis exsul) | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Order: | Squamata |
| Family: | Teiidae |
| Subfamily: | Teiinae |
| Genus: | Pholidoscelis Fitzinger, 1843 |
Classification
Listed alphabetically.[1]
- Pholidoscelis alboguttatus (Boulenger, 1896) – Mona ground lizard, Mona ameiva
- Pholidoscelis atratus (Garman, 1887) – Redonda ameiva
- Pholidoscelis auberi (Cocteau, 1838) – Auber's ameiva, Cuban ameiva
- Pholidoscelis chrysolaemus (Cope, 1868) – common ameiva, Hispaniolan giant ameiva
- †Pholidoscelis cineraceus (Barbour & Noble, 1915) – Guadeloupe ameiva (extinct)
- Pholidoscelis corax (Censky & Paulson, 1992) – Censky's ameiva, Anguilla black ameiva, Little Scrub Island ground lizard
- Pholidoscelis corvinus (Cope, 1861) – Sombrero ameiva
- Pholidoscelis desechensis (Heatwole & Torres, 1967) – Desecheo ground lizard
- Pholidoscelis dorsalis (Gray, 1838) – Jamaica ameiva
- Pholidoscelis erythrocephalus (Daudin, 1802) – St. Christopher ameiva
- Pholidoscelis exsul (Cope, 1862) – common Puerto Rican ameiva
- Pholidoscelis fuscatus (Garman, 1887) – Dominican ameiva
- Pholidoscelis griswoldi (Barbour, 1916) – Antiguan ameiva, Griswold's ameiva
- Pholidoscelis lineolatus (Duméril & Bibron, 1839) – Pigmy blue-tailed ameiva, dwarf teiid
- †Pholidoscelis major (Duméril & Bibron, 1839) – Martinique ameiva, Martinique giant ameiva
- Pholidoscelis maynardi (Garman, 1888) – Great Inagua ameiva
- Pholidoscelis plei (Duméril & Bibron, 1839) – Anguilla Bank Ameiva
- Pholidoscelis pluvianotatus (Garman, 1887) – Montserrat ameiva
- Pholidoscelis polops (Cope, 1862) – St. Croix ameiva, St. Croix ground lizard
- Pholidoscelis taeniurus (Cope, 1862) – Hispaniolan blue-tailed ameiva, Haitian ameiva
- Pholidoscelis wetmorei (Stejneger, 1913) – Puerto Rican blue-tailed ameiva, Wetmore's ameiva
References
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- Pholidoscelis, The Reptile Database
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