Pholidoscelis maynardi

Pholidoscelis maynardi, commonly known as the Great Inagua ameiva, Inagua ameiva, or Inagua blue-tailed lizard, is species of lizard, a member of the family Teiidae. The species is endemic to the Bahamas. Three subspecies have been described.[1]

Pholidoscelis maynardi
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Squamata
Family: Teiidae
Genus: Pholidoscelis
Species:
P. maynardi
Binomial name
Pholidoscelis maynardi
(Garman, 1888)
Synonyms[1]
  • Ameiva maynardii
    Garman, 1888
  • Pholidoscelis maynardi
    — Goicoechea et al., 2016

Etymology

The specific name, maynardi, is in honor of American ornithologist Charles Johnson Maynard.[2]

Description

Males of P. maynardi measure an average of 72 mm (2.83 in) snout-vent length (SVL), and females average 70 mm (2.76 in) SVL.

Diet

P. maynardi is mainly insectivorous, however, little is known of its natural history.

Habitat

P. maynardi is often encountered in the upper beach zone. It prefers sandy and loamy areas, but is also found in rocky and sparse vegetative areas.

Reproduction

P. maynardi is oviparous.[1]

Subspecies and distribution

Three subspecies are recognized as being valid, including the nominotypical subspecies.[1] The species is found only in Inagua, Bahamas.

  • Pholidoscelis maynardi maynardi Garman, 1888 – northern and western coasts of Great Inagua Island
  • Pholidoscelis maynardi parvinaguae Barbour & Shreve, 1936[3] – Little Inagua
  • Pholidoscelis maynardi uniformis Noble & Klingel, 1932[4] – eastern and southern portions of Great Inagua Island

References
  1. Species Pholidoscelis maynardi at The Reptile Database . www.reptile-database.org.
  2. Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. ISBN 978-1-4214-0135-5. (Ameiva maynardi, p. 172).
  3. Barbour T, Shreve B (1936). "New races of Tropidophis and of Ameiva from the Bahamas". Proceedings of the New England Zoölogical Club 40: 347-365. (Ameiva maynardi parvinauguae, new subspecies).
  4. Noble GK, Klingel GC (1932). "The Reptiles of Great Inagua Island, British West Indies". American Museum Novitates (549): 1-25. (Ameiva maynardii uniformis, new subspecies, pp. 23-24).

Further reading
  • Campbell DG (1981). The Ephemeral Islands: A Natural History of the Bahamas. London and Basingstoke: Macmillan Education. 160 pp. ISBN 978-0333226759.
  • Garman S (1888). "Reptiles and Batrachians from the Caymans and from the Bahamas. Collected by Prof. C. J. Maynard for the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Cambridge, Mass." Bulletin of the Essex Institute 20: 101–113. (Ameiva maynardii, new species, pp. 110–111).
  • Goicoehea N, Frost DR, De la Riva I, Pellegrino KCM, Sites J, Rodrigues MT, Padial JM (2016). "Molecular systematics of teioid lizards (Teioidea/Gymnophthalmoidea: Squamata) based on the analysis of 48 loci under tree-alignment and similarity-alignment". Cladistics 32: 624–671. (Philodoscelis maynardi, new combination).
  • Schwartz A, Henderson RW (1991). Amphibians and Reptiles of the West Indies: Descriptions, Distributions, and Natural History. Gainesville: University of Florida Press. 714 pp. ISBN 978-0813010496.
  • Schwartz A, Thomas R (1975). A Check-list of West Indian Amphibians and Reptiles. Carnegie Museum of Natural History Special Publication No. 1. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania: Carnegie Museum of Natural History. 216 pp. (Ameiva maynardi, pp. 60–61).
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