Martinique Giant Ameiva

Martinique Giant Ameiva
Conservation status
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Squamata
Family: Teiidae
Genus: Ameiva
Species: A. major
Binomial name
Ameiva major
Duméril & Bibron, 1839

The Martinique Giant Ameiva (Ameiva major) was a species of lizard in the Teiidae family. It is believed to have been endemic to Martinique, though at least one scholar disputes this, instead placing it on Les Iles de la Petite Terre within the Guadeloupean archipelago.[1] It is known only from museum specimens collected by early European explorers. Its extinction may have been caused by a hurricane.

Notes

  1. ^ Powell & Henderson 2005, p. 66, attributing this view to Brueil, 2002.

References

  • Malhotra, Anita; Thorpe, Roger S. (1999), Reptiles & Amphibians of the Eastern Caribbean, Macmillan Education Ltd, pp. 89, 109, ISBN 0-333-69141-5 
  • Powell, Robert; Henderson, Robert W. (2005), "Conservation Status of Lesser Antillean Reptiles", Iguana 12 (2): 63–77 
  • World Conservation Monitoring Centre 1996. Ameiva major. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 28 July 2007.

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