Ameiva praesignis
(Baird and Girard, 1852)
SSAR 9th Edition Comments:
Native to Costa Rica south to Colombia and Venezuela. It was introduced prior to 1979 and is established at the Crandon Park Zoo on Key Biscayne, Miami-Dade County, Florida (Wilson and Porras, 1983, The Ecological Impact of Man on the South Florida Herpetofauna. University of Kansas Museum of Natural History, Special Publication 9: i–vi + 1–89; Krysko et al., 2010, Herpetological Conservation and Biology 5: 132–142; Krysko, 2019, Ameiva praesignis. Pages 427–428 in Krysko et al. (Editors) Amphibians and Reptiles of Florida. University Press of Florida, Gainesville, Florida). Earlier confusion about the taxonomy of these lizards (Wilson and Porras, 1983, op. cit.) has been resolved by Ugueto and Harvey (2011, Herpetological Monographs. 25: 113–170).
Range maps are based on curated specimens and provided gratis by CNAH.
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No historic English names have been assigned to this taxon yet.
Catalog of American Amphibians and Reptiles
The Reptile Database
GenBank
USGS - Nonindigenous Aquatic Species Database
Selected References:
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1852
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Baird, Spencer F. and Charles Girad. Characteristics of some new reptiles in the Museum of the Smithsonian Institution, Second Part. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia 6:125-129
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