Guadeloupe Ameiva
| Guadeloupe ameiva | |
|---|---|
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Order: | Squamata |
| Family: | Teiidae |
| Genus: | Ameiva |
| Species: | † A. cineracea |
| Binomial name | |
| † Ameiva cineracea Barbour & Noble, 1915 | |
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| Location of Guadeloupe | |
The Guadeloupe ameiva (Ameiva cineracea) was a species of Teiidae lizard that was endemic to Guadeloupe. It is known from specimens collected by early European explorers. The fossil record shows that it once ranged across Guadeloupe, La Désirade, Marie-Galante, and Îles des Saintes, but in most recent times it was restricted to Grand Ilet, just offshore of Petit-Bourg. Its extinction likely occurred when this area was decimated by a hurricane in 1928.[2]
References
- ↑ World Conservation Monitoring Centre (1996). "Ameiva cineracea". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2013.2. International Union for Conservation of Nature. Retrieved 2014-06-20.
- ↑ Lorvelec, Olivier, et al. Amphibians and reptiles of the French West Indies: Inventory, threats and conservation. Applied Herpetology, Volume 4, Number 2, 2007 , pp. 131-161
- Malhotra, Anita; Thorpe, Roger S. (1999), Reptiles & Amphibians of the Eastern Caribbean, Macmillan Education Ltd, pp. 72–74, ISBN 0-333-69141-5
- Powell, Robert; Henderson, Robert W. (2005), "Conservation Status of Lesser Antillean Reptiles", Iguana 12 (2): 63–77
External links
Media related to Ameiva cineracea at Wikimedia Commons- Ameiva cineracea at the Encyclopedia of Life
- Ameiva cineracea at the Reptile Database
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