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AMEIVA 



Ame i va ame i va ame i va (Linnaeus) 



1768 Seps sur i namens i s Laurenti, Synopsin Reptilium: 59- Type-locality: None given. 



1768 Seps zeylan i cus Laurenti, Synopsin Reptilium: 59- Type-locality: None given. 



1795 ^i^e i ua amer icana Meyer (replacement name for Lacerta amei va Gmelin), Synopsis Reptilium: 



28. 

 1802 Lacerta qraphica Daudin. Hist. Nat. Rept., J: 112. Type-locality: America (after Seba). 

 I823 Ame i va vulgar i s Lichtenstein (replacement name for Lacerta ame i va Linnaeus), Verzeichniss 



der Doubletten des Zoologischen Museums der Konigl. Universitat zu Berlin: 91» 

 I825 Te jus Lateristriga Spix. Sp. Nov. Lac. Bras.: 22, pi. 24, fig. 1. Type-locality: 



Brazil. 

 182S Tejus tritaeniatus Spix. Sp. Nov. Lac. Bras.: 22, pi. 24, fig. 2. Type-locality: 



Estado da Baliia, Brazil. 

 I838 Ameiva maculata Gray, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., (l) 1: 277. Type-locality: Brazil. 

 1845 Ameiva guttata Gray, Cat. Liz. Brit. Mus.: 18. Type-locality: Demerara; Pernambuco; and 



Brazil. 

 1862 L.[ acerta ] tr istr iata Cope ( in error for Te jus tr i taeniatus Spix), Proc. Acad. Nat. Sc i . 



Pliila., 1862: 68. 

 1915 Amei va amei va amei va — Barbour and Noble, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., 59' '^^^• 

 191"^ Ameiva ameiva bilineata Barbour and Noble, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., 59' ^^^' Type-locality: 



Dunoon, Demarara River, Guyana. 



Distribution: Southern Venezuela, Guyana, Surinam, French Guiana, northeastern Brazil. 



Amei va ame i va f i scher i nomen novum 



1879 Cnemi dophorus maculatus Fischer, Verh. Naturwiss. Ver. Hamburg, 67= 95> pl- *> figs. 1-6. 



Type-locality: Sabana Larga, Colombia. 

 iqiS Ameiva ameiva maculata Barbour and Noble, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., 59= ^^1 • 



Distribution: Sabana Larga and Sierra de Santa Marta, Colombia. 



Comment: This new name is necessary because of the prior name Ameiva maculata Gray, I838. 

 No previous author has replaced maculatus Fischer, 1879' 



Ame i va ame i va laeta Cope 



1862 A.[ meiva ] laeta Cope. Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1862: 65. Type-locality: Near Rio 



de Janeiro, Brazil. 

 1915 Ameiva ameiva laeta Barbour and Noble, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., 59: 467. 



Distribution: Rio de Janeiro, Minas Gerais and Goiás, Brazil. 



Ame i va ame iva melanocephala Barbour and Noble 



iqiS Ameiva ameiva melanocephala Barbour and Noble, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., 59: 465. Type- 

 locality: Cumanocoa, Venezuela. 



Distribution: Eastern Venezuela, La Guayra Range in central Venezuela; Isla Margarita. 



Ame i va ame i va orna ta Mú'ller and Hellmich 



1540 Ameiva ameiva ornata Mú'ller and Hellmich, Zool. Anz., 132: I79, figs. 1-2. Type- 

 locality: La Puerta, Fusagasugá, Colombia, 1200 m. 



Distribution; Llanos of Fusagasugá, Colombia. 



Ame i va ame i va peters i i Cope 



1868 Ameiva petersi i Cope. Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1868: 99. Type-local i ty: Ñapo or 



Marañen, Ecuador. 

 I87I Ameiva pleurotaenia Peters, Monats. Akad. Wiss. Berlin, I87I: 652. Type-locality: Pebas 



and Pozuzu, Peru. 

 1515 Ameiva ameiva peters i —Barbour and Noble, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., 59: 466. 



Distribution: Upper Amazonian Basin. 



