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Ameiva ameiva (Giant Ameiva, Amazon Racerunner; Giant ameiva)

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Wikipedia Abstract

The giant ameiva (Ameiva ameiva), also known as green ameiva, South American ground lizard, giant whiptail, zandoli, Amazon whiptail, and Amazon racerunner, is a species of lizard in the family Teiidae found in Central and South America and some Caribbean Islands.
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Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  82 grams
Birth Weight [1]  2 grams
Female Weight [1]  56 grams
Male Weight [1]  108 grams
Weight Dimorphism [1]  92.9 %
Female Maturity [1]  8 months 4 days
Male Maturity [1]  8 months 4 days
Gestation [1]  4 months 15 days
Litter Size [1]  5
Litters / Year [1]  3
Maximum Longevity [3]  5 years
Reproductive Mode [2]  Oviparous
Snout to Vent Length [1]  5 inches (13 cm)
Habitat Substrate [2]  Terrestrial

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Parasitized by 
Physaloptera lutzi <Unverified Name>[9]
Physaloptera retusa[9]
Strongyluris oscari <Unverified Name>[9]
Thelandros scleratus[9]
Thubunaea dactlyuris <Unverified Name>[9]

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Citations

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♦ 1Nathan P. Myhrvold, Elita Baldridge, Benjamin Chan, Dhileep Sivam, Daniel L. Freeman, and S. K. Morgan Ernest. 2015. An amniote life-history database to perform comparative analyses with birds, mammals, and reptiles. Ecology 96:3109
♦ 2Meiri, Shai (2019), Data from: Traits of lizards of the world: variation around a successful evolutionary design, Dryad, Dataset, https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.f6t39kj
♦ 3de Magalhaes, J. P., and Costa, J. (2009) A database of vertebrate longevity records and their relation to other life-history traits. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 22(8):1770-1774
♦ 4Ha&#769;bitos alimentares de serpentes em Espiga&#771;o do Oeste, Rondo&#770;nia, Brasil, Paulo Sérgio Bernarde & Augusto Shinya Abe, Biota Neotrop., vol. 10, no. 1, pp. 167-173 (2010)
♦ 5Food habits of Brazilian boid snakes: overview and new data, with special reference to Corallus hortulanus, Lígia Pizzatto, Otavio A.V. Marques, Kátia Facure, Amphibia-Reptilia 30 (2009): 533-544
♦ 6Diet and reproduction of the Western Indigo Snake Drymarchon corais (Serpentes: Colubridae) from the Brazilian Amazon, Ana Lúcia da Costa Prudente, Alessandro Costa Menks, Fernanda Magalhães da Silva and Gleomar Fabiano Maschio, Herpetology Notes, volume 7: 99-108 (2014)
♦ 7Galictis vittata, Eric Yensen and Teresa Tarifa, MAMMALIAN SPECIES No. 727, pp. 1–8 (2003)
♦ 8Reproductive biology and food habits of Pseudoboa nigra (Serpentes: Dipsadidae) from the Brazilian cerrado, Renata de Paula Orofino, Lígia Pizzatto and Otavio A. V. Marques, Phyllomedusa 9(1):53-61, 2010
♦ 9Gibson, D. I., Bray, R. A., & Harris, E. A. (Compilers) (2005). Host-Parasite Database of the Natural History Museum, London
Ecoregions provided by World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF). WildFinder: Online database of species distributions, ver. 01.06 Wildfinder Database
Biodiversity Hotspots provided by Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund
Abstract provided by DBpedia licensed under a Creative Commons License
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0