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AMEIVA 



Key to the subspecies 



1. Vertebral stripe with parallel borders 2 



Vertebral stripe with zig-zag borders 



occ i dental i s 



2. Vertebral stripe 8-10 granules wide; half 



of parietals included in vertebral stripe- 



3 



Vertebral stripe 30-*^ granules wide; 

 entire parietals included in vertebral 

 str ipe n i cef oro i 



3. Poster i ormost sublabial one large shield 



f est iva 



Poster i ormost sublabial divided into three 

 smaller scales forming rough triangle 

 (fig. 1 ) edwards i i 



Clave de subespecies 



1. Cinta vertebral con bordes paralelos 2 



Cinta vertebral con bordes en zig-zag 



occ i dental is 



2. Cinta vertebral estrecha, 8-10 granulos de 



ancho; mitad de los parietales incluida en 



la cinta vertebral 3 



Cinta vertebral ancha, JO-iO granulos de 

 ancho; parietales incluidos en la cinta 

 vertebral n icef oroi 



3. iíltimo sublabial grande f est i va 



Último sublab ial d i V id i do en tres pequeñas 



escamas que forman un triángulo imperfecto 

 (fig. 1) edwards i i 



Fig. 1. On left, f. festiva , on right, f. edwards i i (from Stuart, 15*3)- 



Ame i va f est i va f est i va (L i chtenste i n) 



1862 A.[ mei va j eu trop ia Cope, Proc. Acad. Nat. Se i . Phila., 1862: 62. Type-locality: Truando 



River, northwestern Colombia. 

 1529 Ame i va festiva [ f est i va J — Barbour and Loveridge, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., 69: 141. 

 19S6 Ameiva festiva f est i va — Taylor. Univ. Kansas Se i . Bull., 38: 260, fig. 65. 



Distribution: Northern Colombia to Panama. 



Ame i va f est i va edwards i ¡ Bocourt 



I873 Ameiva Edwardsii Bocourt. Ann. Sci. Nat. Zool. Paris, (5) I7 (art. I7): 1. Type-locality: 



Isabel and Santa Maria de Panzos, Guatemala. 

 1943 Ameiva festiva edwards I i — Stuart. Occ. Pap. Mus. Zool. Univ. Mich., 47I: 21, fig. ], 



Distribution: Low and moderate elevations on Caribbean slope from Isthmus of Tehuantepec, 

 Mexico, southeast to northern Honduras and Nicaragua, exclusive of outer end of Yucatán 

 Pen i nsula. 



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Ameiva test iva n i ceforo i Dunn 



,sf-'''%o 1943 Ameiva festiva niceforoi Dunn, Notulae Naturae, Acad. Nat. S 

 n"^ locality: Sasaima, 75 km northwest of Bogotá, Colombia, 1 



Distribution: Western slope of eastern Andes in Colomb 

 Amei va fest i va occ i dental i s Taylor 



ci. Phila., 126: 1. Type- 

 200 m. 



0-1800 



1956lmeiva festiva occidentalis Taylor, Univ. Kansas Sci. Bull., 38: 264, fig. 66. Type- 

 locality: 5 mi east of San Isidro del General, Provincia San José, Costa Rica. 



Distribution: Provincias Puntarenas and San José, Costa Rica. 



