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CNEMIDOPHORUS 



Key to the subspecies Clave de subespecies 



1. Some colors other than black on body 2 !• No hay melanismo- 2 



Body uniformly black n iqricolor Con melanismo generalizado n iqr icolor 



2. Sides with large rounded spots; femoral 2. Lados con manchas grandes, poros femorales 



pores 27-33 arubensis 27-33 arubens is 



Sides unspotted or with very few small Lados con manchas pequeñas o ausentes; 



spots; femoral pores I5-29- lemn iscatus poros femorales 15-25 lemn iscatus 



Cnem i dophorus lemn i scatus lemn i scatus (Linnaeus) 



1768 Seps caeruleus Laurenti, Synopsin Reptilium: 63. Type-local ity: America. 



1785 Lacerta caerulescens Bonaterre, Tabl. Ency. Meth. Quad. Ovip.: 46. Type-locality: 

 Unknown. 



1802 Lacerta coeruleo-cephala Sonnini and Latreille, Hist. Nat. Rept., 1: 242, pl. 221, fig. 3. 

 Type-locality: Brazil. 



1820 Te ius cyaneus Merrem, Tentamen Systematis Amphibiorum: 6I. Type-locality: Tropical South 

 Amer i ca. 

 ?1825 T.|_ e i us j cyanomelas Wied, Beitrage zur Naturgesch ichte von Brazilien, 1: 180. Type- 

 locality: Mucurf, Brazil. 



18'^8 Ameiva lineata Gray. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., 1: 278. Type-locality: Unknown. 



I845 Cnem idophorus scutata Gray, Cat. Liz. Brit. Mus.: 21. Type-locality: Unknown. 



188S Cnemidophorus espeuti Boulenqer. Cat. Liz. Brit. Mus., 2: 362, pl. I5. Type-locality: 

 Old Providence Island, Colombia. 



1915 Cnem i dophorus lemn i scatus qa i qe i Ruthven, Occ. Pap. Mus. Zool. Univ. Mich., 16: 1. Type- 

 locality: Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, Colombia. 



1919 Cnem i dophorus lemn i scatus lemn i scatus — Beebe, Zoológica, 2: 212. 



1928 Cnem i dophorus lemn i scatus ruatanus Barbour, Proc. New England Zool. Club, 10: 60. Type- 

 locality: Coxen Hole, Ruatan, Bay Islands of Honduras. 



1931 Cnemidophorus lemniscatus lemniscatus — Burt, Bull. U.S. Nat. Mus., 154: JO. 



Distribution: Lowlands of tropical South America and Central America; and on following 

 Caribbean Islands; Trinidad, Tobago, Pato, Margarita, Coche, Cubagua, Old Providence, 

 St. Thomas, Swan, and Milford. 



Cnemidophorus lemn iscatus arubens is (Van Lidth) 



1887 Cnemidophorus arubensis Van Lidth, Notes Leyden Mus., 9= 132. Type-locality: Aruba, 



Dutch West Indies. 

 1940 Cnemidophorus lemniscatus arubensis- — Hummelinck, Studies Fauna Curajao, Aruba, Bonaire, 



Venez. Islands, 1: 85, pl. I3. 



Distribution: Aruba Island. 



Cnemi dophorus lemn iscatus ni gr icolor (Peters) 



1873 Cnemidophorus niqricolor Peters, Sitz. Ges. Naturforsch. Freunde Berlin, 1873= 76« Type- 

 locality: Los Roques Island, Venezuela. 

 1931 Cnemidophorus lemniscatus niqricolon — Burt, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., 154: 40. 



Distribution: Restricted to Los Roques Archipiélago; Aves, Orchila and Blanquilla Islands. 



CNEMIDOPHORUS LONGICAUDUS (Bell) 



1843 Ameiva lonqicauda Bell. Zool. Voyage Beagle, Rept.: 28, pl. I5, fig. 1. Type-locality: Bahía 



Blanca, Argent i na. 

 1845 Cnem i dophorus lonq i caudus — Gray, Cat, Liz. Brit. Mus.: 21. 

 I869 Cnem i dophorus m ult i 1 i neatus Philippi, Arch, fur Naturg., 35^ ^l- Type-locality: Mendoza, 



Argent i na. 

 1966 Cnem i dophorus lonqicauda — Gallardo, Neotropica, 12: 24, fig. 2. 



Distribution: Northern Argentina. 



