The lizard genus Ameiva in Ecuador

Resumen

This species was originally described by Cope (1868:99) from "the Napo or Marahon" referring to the rivers followed by the Orton Expedition.Most of the Napo and all of the Marahon are now Peruvian, since the Rio de Janeiro decisions assigned a large part of Amazonian Ecuador to Peru.It is, of course, quite uncertain from whence the type actually came.Barbour and Noble (1915:466) had a series of specimens they thought belonged to this taxon, from Teffe andManaos, Brazil, but in their description they do not describe the scutellation of petersii except to say it is the same as that of A. ameiva ameiva.When the latter description is compared with the available specimens from Ecuador, there are some striking differences.At any rate, the series described here 'wsls collected on the Rio Napo, and