Pholidoscelis maynardi

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Gymnophthalmoidea

Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Superphylum: Deuterostomia Phylum: Chordata Subphylum: Vertebrata Infraphylum: Gnathostomata Megaclassis: Osteichthyes Cladus: Sarcopterygii Cladus: Rhipidistia Cladus: Tetrapodomorpha Cladus: Eotetrapodiformes Cladus: Elpistostegalia Superclassis: Tetrapoda Cladus: Reptiliomorpha Cladus: Amniota Classis: Reptilia Cladus: Eureptilia Cladus: Romeriida Subclassis: Diapsida Cladus: Sauria Infraclassis: Lepidosauromorpha Superordo: Lepidosauria Ordo: Squamata Cladus: Unidentata Episquamata Subordo: Lacertoidea Superfamilia: Gymnophthalmoidea

Familia: Teiidae
Subfamilia: Teiinae
Genus: Pholidoscelis
Species: Pholidoscelis maynardi
Subspecies (3): P. m. maynardi – P. m. parvinaguae – P. m. uniformis

Name

Pholidoscelis maynardi (Garman, 1888)

• Syntypes: MCZ 6225.
• Type locality: “Inagua”.

Combinations

• Ameiva maynardii Garman, 1888: 110 [original combination]
• Pholidoscelis maynardi — Goicoechea et al., 2016: 671 [subsequent combination]

Native distribution areas

• Bahamas: Great Inagua (including the adjacent Sheep Cay) and Little Inagua.

References

Primary references

• 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. BHL
• Goicoechea, N., Frost, D.R., De la Riva, I.J., Pellegrino, K.C.M., Sites Jr., J.W., Rodrigues, M.T. & 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 32(6): 624–671. DOI: 10.1111/cla.12150 Reference page. 

Links

• Uetz, P. & Hallermann, J. 2024. Pholidoscelis maynardi. The Reptile Database. Accessed on 8 November 2018.
• Buckner, S., Powell, R. & Hedges, B. 2017. IUCN: Pholidoscelis maynardi  (Least Concern) (amended version of 2016 assessment). The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2017: e.T178579A121642475. DOI: 10.2305/IUCN.UK.2017-3.RLTS.T178579A121642475.en

Vernacular names

English: Inagua Ameiva