Ameiva, commonly called jungle-runners, is a genus of whiptail lizards that belongs to the family Teiidae.
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Order: | Squamata |
| Family: | Teiidae |
| Genus: | Ameiva F. Meyer, 1795 |
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Geographic range
editMember species of the genus Ameiva are found in South America, Central America and the Caribbean (West Indies). Their major habitat in four regions of Brazil include: Caatinga, Cerrado, the Amazonian rain forest, and the Amazonian savanna.[1] Additionally, Ameiva ameiva has been introduced to Florida in the United States.[2]
Species
editSourced from "The Reptile Database".[3]
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| Ameiva aggerecusans Koch, Venegas, Rödder, Flecks & Böhme, 2013 | Peru | |
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Ameiva ameiva (Linnaeus, 1758) – giant ameiva, green ameiva, South American ground lizard, Amazon racerunner | Central, South America, and some Caribbean Islands. |
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Ameiva atrigularis (Garman, 1887) – giant ameiva, Amazon racerunner | Trinidad and Tobago and in Venezuela. |
| Ameiva bifrontata Cope, 1862 – Cope's ameiva | Peru, Colombia, Venezuela, Netherlands Antilles, and Aruba. | |
| Ameiva concolor (Ruthven, 1924) | Peru. | |
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Ameiva fuliginosa (Cope, 1892) | Isla de Providencia, San Andrés, and the Swan Islands. |
| Ameiva jacuba Giugliano, Nogueira, Valdujo, Collevatti & Colli, 2013 | Brazil. | |
| Ameiva nodam Koch, Venegas, Rödder, Flecks & Böhme, 2013 | Peru. | |
| Ameiva pantherina Ugueto & Harvey, 2011 | Venezuela. | |
| Ameiva parecis (Colli, Costa, Garda, Kopp, Mesquita, Péres, Valdujo, Vieira & Wiederhecker, 2003) | Brazil. | |
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Ameiva praesignis (Baird & Girard, 1852) – giant ameiva, Amazon racerunner | Costa Rica, Panama, Venezuela, and Colombia. |
| Ameiva provitaae García-Pérez, 1995 | Venezuela. | |
| Ameiva reticulata Landauro, Garcia-Bravo & Venegas, 2015 | Peru. | |
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Ameiva tobagana Cope, 1879 – Antillean ameiva | Grenada and St. Vincent. |
Nota bene: A binomial authority in parentheses indicates that the species was originally described in a genus other than Ameiva.
References
edit- ^ "Geographical ecology of a Neotropical lizard: AMeiva ameiva (Teiidae) in Brazil"
- ^ Conant R (1975). A Field Guide to Reptiles and Amphibians of Eastern and Central North America, Second Edition. Boston: Houghton Mifflin. xviii + 429 pp. + Plates 1-48. ISBN 0-395-19979-4 (hardcover), ISBN 0-395-19977-8 (paperback). (Ameiva ameiva, pp. 120-121 + Plate 17 + Map 92).
- ^ Ameiva. The Reptile Database. http://www.reptile-database.org.
Further reading
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- Meyer FAA (1795). Synopsis reptilium, novam ipsorum sistens generum methodum, nec non Gottingensium huius ordinis animalium enumerationem. Göttingen: van den Hoek and Ruprecht. 32 pp. (Ameiva, new genus, p. 27). (in Latin).
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