Pholidoscelis maynardi, commonly known as the Great Inagua ameiva, Inagua ameiva, or Inagua blue-tailed lizard, is species of lizard, a member of the familyTeiidae. The species is endemic to the Bahamas. Three subspecies have been described.[1]
^Barbour T, Shreve B (1936). "New races of Tropidophis and of Ameiva from the Bahamas". Proceedings of the New England Zoölogical Club40: 347-365. (Ameiva maynardi parvinauguae, new subspecies).
^Noble GK, Klingel GC (1932). "The Reptiles of Great Inagua Island, British West Indies". American Museum Novitates (549): 1-25. (Ameiva maynardii uniformis, new subspecies, pp. 23-24). [1][2]
Further reading
Campbell, David G. (1981). The Ephemeral Islands: A Natural History of the Bahamas. London and Basingstoke: Macmillan Education. 160 pp. ISBN978-0333226759.
Garman S (1888). "Reptiles and Batrachians from the Caymans and from the Bahamas. Collected by Prof. C. J. Maynard for the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Cambridge, Mass." Bulletin of the Essex Institute20: 101–113. (Ameiva maynardii, new species, pp. 110–111).
Goicoehea N, Frost DR, De la Riva I, Pellegrino KCM, Sites J Jr, Rodrigues MT, Padial JM (2016). "Molecular systematics of teioid lizards (Teioidea/Gymnophthalmoidea: Squamata) based on the analysis of 48 loci under tree-alignment and similarity-alignment". Cladistics32: 624–671. (Philodoscelis maynardi, new combination).
Schwartz A, Henderson RW (1991). Amphibians and Reptiles of the West Indies: Descriptions, Distributions, and Natural History. Gainesville: University of Florida Press. 714 pp. ISBN978-0813010496.
Schwartz A, Thomas R (1975). A Check-list of West Indian Amphibians and Reptiles. Carnegie Museum of Natural History Special Publication No. 1. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania: Carnegie Museum of Natural History. 216 pp. (Ameiva maynardi, pp. 60–61).