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  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. ›phylumChordata
  3. ›classSquamata
  4. ›familyTeiidae
  5. ›genusPholidoscelis
Pholidoscelis exsul
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IUCN LC · Least concern

Common Puerto Rican Ameiva

Pholidoscelis exsul (Cope, 1862)

Also calledAmeiva-de-porto-rico (por) · Ameiva-porto-riquenha-comum (por) · Puertoricansk Kæmpeameiva (dan) · siguana (spa) · Пуэрториканская амейва (rus)

First described in: Cope, E. D. Synopsis of the species of Holcosus and Ameiva, with diagnoses of new West Indian and South American Colubridae.

This species is catalogued but little written about: there is no encyclopaedia article for it yet. What the world knows is in its records below and in the literature linked under “In the stacks”.

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From the GBIF Backbone Taxonomy and occurrence records (GBIF.org), with Wikipedia and the Source Library. GBIF species 10830355.