Pholidoscelis dorsalis

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Lacertoidea

Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Amorphea Cladus: Obazoa Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Cladus: Filozoa Cladus: Choanozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: ParaHoxozoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Superphylum: Deuterostomia Phylum: Chordata Cladus: Olfactores Subphylum: Vertebrata Infraphylum: Gnathostomata Cladus: Eugnathostomata Cladus: Osteichthyes Cladus: Sarcopterygii Cladus: Rhipidistia Cladus: Tetrapodomorpha Cladus: Eotetrapodiformes Cladus: Elpistostegalia Cladus: Stegocephali Cladus: Tetrapoda Cladus: Reptiliomorpha Cladus: Amniota Cladus: Sauropsida Classis: Reptilia Cladus: Eureptilia Cladus: Romeriida Cladus: Diapsida Cladus: Neoreptilia Cladus: Parapleurota Cladus: Neodiapsida Cladus: Sauria Cladus: Lepidosauromorpha Superordo: Lepidosauria Ordo: Squamata Cladus: Unidentata Episquamata Subordo: Lacertoidea

Familia: Teiidae
Subfamilia: Teiinae
Genus: Pholidoscelis
Species: Pholidoscelis dorsalis

Name

• Pholidoscelis dorsalis (Gray, 1838)

Holotype: BMNH 111.11a.

Type locality: “South America (in error), Jamaica”.

Combinations

• Ameiva dorsalis Gray, 1838: 277 [original combination]
• Pholidoscelis dorsalis — Goicoechea et al., 2016: 671 [subsequent combination]

References

Primary references

• Gray, J.E. 1838. Catalogue of the slender-tongued saurians, with descriptions of many new genera and species. Part 1. Annals of Natural History Series 1, 1: 274–283. 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., Freed, P., Aguilar, R., F. Reyes, J. Kudera & Hošek, J. (eds.) 2026. Pholidoscelis dorsalis. The Reptile Database. Accessed on 8 November 2018.
• Wilson, B.S. & Hedges, B. 2017. IUCN: Pholidoscelis dorsalis  (Endangered) (amended version of 2017 assessment). The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2017: e.T50009027A121640494. DOI: 10.2305/IUCN.UK.2017-3.RLTS.T50009027A121640494.en

Vernacular names

• English: Jamaican Ameiva