Guadeloupe Ameiva

Guadeloupe ameiva
Conservation status
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Squamata
Family: Teiidae
Genus: Ameiva
Species: † A. cineracea
Binomial name
† Ameiva cineracea
Barbour & Noble, 1915
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

  1. ↑ 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.
  2. ↑ 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

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