Pholidoscelis wetmorei

Pholidoscelis wetmorei

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 Superclassis: 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 wetmorei

Name

• Pholidoscelis wetmorei (Stejneger, 1913)

Holotype: USNM 49731, collected by Alexander Wetmore on 20 May 1912.

Type locality: “Guanica, Puerto Rico, Above Rio Loco”.

Combinations

• Ameiva wetmorei Stejneger, 1913: 70 [original combination]
• Pholidoscelis wetmorei — Goicoechea et al., 2016: 671 [subsequent combination]

References

Primary references

• Stejneger, L.H. 1913. A new lizard from Porto Rico. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 26: 69–71. 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 wetmorei. The Reptile Database. Accessed on 8 November 2018.
• Joglar, R., Rodriguez, C. & Angeli, N. 2017. IUCN: Pholidoscelis wetmorei  (Vulnerable) (amended version of 2017 assessment). The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2017: e.T50009293A121643821. DOI: 10.2305/IUCN.UK.2017-3.RLTS.T50009293A121643821.en

Vernacular names

• English: Puerto Rican Blue-tailed Ameiva