Ameiva

{{Automatic taxobox

| name = Ameiva

| image = Amazon Racerunner, male.jpg

| image_caption = Ameiva ameiva male

| taxon = Ameiva

| authority = F. Meyer, 1795

| subdivision_ranks = Species

| subdivision = 14, see text

}}

Ameiva, commonly called jungle-runners, is a genus of whiptail lizards that belongs to the family Teiidae.

Geographic range

Member species of the genus Ameiva are found in South America, Central America and the Caribbean (West Indies).

Their major habitat in four regions of Brazil include: Caatinga, Cerrado, the Amazonian rain forest, and the Amazonian savanna.[https://www.nrcresearchpress.com/doi/abs/10.1139/z94-271#.Xl8MNahKhEY "Geographical ecology of a Neotropical lizard: AMeiva ameiva (Teiidae) in Brazil"]

Additionally, Ameiva ameiva has been introduced to Florida in the United States.Conant R (1975). A Field Guide to Reptiles and Amphibians of Eastern and Central North America, Second Edition. Boston: Houghton Mifflin. xviii + 429 pp. + Plates 1-48. {{ISBN|0-395-19979-4}} (hardcover), {{ISBN|0-395-19977-8}} (paperback). (Ameiva ameiva, pp. 120-121 + Plate 17 + Map 92).

Species

Sourced from "The Reptile Database".[http://reptile-database.reptarium.cz/search.php?taxon=&genus=Ameiva&submit=Search Ameiva]. The Reptile Database. http://www.reptile-database.org.

Image	Name	Distribution
class="wikitable"
	Ameiva aggerecusans {{small\|Koch, Venegas, Rödder, Flecks & Böhme, 2013}}	Peru
120px	Ameiva ameiva {{small\|(Linnaeus, 1758)}} – giant ameiva, green ameiva, South American ground lizard, Amazon racerunner	Central, South America, and some Caribbean Islands.
120px	Ameiva atrigularis {{small\|(Garman, 1887)}} – giant ameiva, Amazon racerunner	Trinidad and Tobago and in Venezuela.
	Ameiva bifrontata {{small\|Cope, 1862}} – Cope's ameiva	Peru, Colombia, Venezuela, Netherlands Antilles, and Aruba.
	Ameiva concolor {{small\|(Ruthven, 1924)}}	Peru.
120px	Ameiva fuliginosa {{small\|(Cope, 1892)}}	Isla de Providencia, San Andrés, and the Swan Islands.
	Ameiva jacuba {{small\|Giugliano, Nogueira, Valdujo, Collevatti & Colli, 2013}}	Brazil.
	Ameiva nodam {{small\|Koch, Venegas, Rödder, Flecks & Böhme, 2013}}	Peru.
	Ameiva pantherina {{small\|Ugueto & Harvey, 2011}}	Venezuela.
	Ameiva parecis {{small\|(Colli, Costa, Garda, Kopp, Mesquita, Péres, Valdujo, Vieira & Wiederhecker, 2003)}}	Brazil.
120px	Ameiva praesignis {{small\|(Baird & Girard, 1852)}} – giant ameiva, Amazon racerunner	Costa Rica, Panama, Venezuela, and Colombia.
	Ameiva provitaae {{small\|García-Pérez, 1995}}	Venezuela.
	Ameiva reticulata {{small\|Landauro, Garcia-Bravo & Venegas, 2015}}	Peru.
120px	Ameiva tobagana {{small\|Cope, 1879}} – Antillean ameiva	Grenada and St. Vincent.

Nota bene: A binomial authority in parentheses indicates that the species was originally described in a genus other than Ameiva.

Ameiva

Geographic range

Species

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Further reading