Pholidoscelis exsul

Pholidoscelis exsul

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: Neodiapsida Cladus: Sauria Cladus: Lepidosauromorpha Subclassis: Lepidosauria Ordo: Squamata Cladus: Unidentata Episquamata Subordo: Lacertoidea

Familia: Teiidae
Subfamilia: Teiinae
Genus: Pholidoscelis
Species: Pholidoscelis exsul
Subspecies (2): P. e. alboguttata – P. e. exsul

Name

Pholidoscelis exsul (Cope, 1862)

• Holotype: USNM 30696.
• Type locality: “Water Island”.

Combinations

• Ameiva plei var. exsul Cope, 1862: 66 [original combination]
• Pholidoscelis exsul — Goicoechea et al., 2016: 36 [subsequent combination]

Synonyms

• Ameiva riisei Reinhardt & Lütken, 1862: 232
  • Syntypes: ZMUC R-4336-54; ZMB 4337; NMW 23346.
  • Type locality: “St. Thomas, St. Croix og St. Jan som fra Water Island, Vieques og Porto-rico”.

References

Primary references

• Cope, E.D. 1862. Synopsis of the Species of Holcosus and Ameiva, with Diagnoses of new West Indian and South American Colubridae. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 14: 60–82. BHL Reference page. 
• Reinhardt, J. & Lütken, C. 1862. Bidrag til det vestindiske Öriges og navnligen til de dansk-vestindiske Öers Herpetologie. Videnskabelige Meddelelser fra den naturhistoriske Forening i Kjöbenhavn series 2, 4: 153–291. BHL Reference page. 
• 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.) 2025. Pholidoscelis exsul. The Reptile Database. Accessed on 28 June 2018.
• Platenberg, R., Monson, O., Rodriguez, C. & Angeli, N. 2017. IUCN: Pholidoscelis exsul  (Least Concern) (amended version of 2016 assessment). The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2017: e.T50009074A121641025. DOI: 10.2305/IUCN.UK.2017-3.RLTS.T50009074A121641025.en

Vernacular names

• English: Common Puerto Rican Ameiva