Animalia > Chordata > Squamata > Teiidae > Holcosus > Holcosus niceforoiHolcosus niceforoi (Middle American ameiva; MiddleAmerican Ameiva)Synonyms: Ameiva festiva niceforoi; Ameiva niceforoi | Adult Weight [1] | 30 grams | | Birth Weight [1] | 1 grams | | Female Weight [1] | 21 grams | | Male Weight [1] | 39 grams | | Weight Dimorphism [1] | 85.7 % |  | | Habitat Substrate [2] | Terrestrial | | | Litter Size [1] | 3 | | Litters / Year [1] | 3 | | Snout to Vent Length [1] | 3.543 inches (9 cm) |
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Countries |
Ecozone |
Biome |
Species |
Report |
Climate |
Land
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Belizean pine forests |
Belize |
Neotropic |
Tropical and Subtropical Coniferous Forests |
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Central American Atlantic moist forests |
Panama, Costa Rica, Nicaragua |
Neotropic |
Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests |
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Central American montane forests |
Mexico, Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua |
Neotropic |
Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests |
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Central American pine-oak forests |
Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua |
Neotropic |
Tropical and Subtropical Coniferous Forests |
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Chiapas montane forests |
Mexico |
Neotropic |
Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests |
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Chocó-Darién moist forests |
Colombia, Panama |
Neotropic |
Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests |
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Eastern Panamanian montane forests |
Colombia, Panama |
Neotropic |
Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests |
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Isthmian-Atlantic moist forests |
Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama |
Neotropic |
Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests |
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Isthmian-Pacific moist forests |
Costa Rica, Panama |
Neotropic |
Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests |
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Magdalena Valley montane forests |
Colombia |
Neotropic |
Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests |
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Mesoamerican Gulf-Caribbean mangroves |
Bahamas, United Kingdom |
Neotropic |
Mangroves |
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Motagua Valley thornscrub |
Guatemala |
Neotropic |
Deserts and Xeric Shrublands |
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Pantanos de Centla |
Mexico |
Neotropic |
Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests |
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Petén-Veracruz moist forests |
Mexico, Guatemala, Belize |
Neotropic |
Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests |
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Southern Mesoamerican Pacific mangroves |
Mexico, Guatemala, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama |
Neotropic |
Mangroves |
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Talamancan montane forests |
Costa Rica, Panama |
Neotropic |
Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests |
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Yucatán moist forests |
Mexico, Guatemala, Belize |
Neotropic |
Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests |
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Location |
Endemic |
Species |
Website |
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Mesoamerica |
Belize, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama |
No |
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Tropical Andes |
Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Venezuela |
Yes |
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Tumbes-Choco-Magdalena |
Colombia, Ecuador, Panama, Peru |
No |
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Attributes / relations provided by ♦ 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 ♦ 3Anurans as prey: an exploratory analysis and size relationships between predators and their prey, L. F. Toledo, R. S. Ribeiro & C. F. B. Haddad, Journal of Zoology 271 (2007) 170–177 Ecoregions provided by World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF). WildFinder: Online database of species distributions, ver. 01.06 Wildfinder Database |
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
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