How many of you guys keep these?

[Herplings]

This is my Male. I hope to get to breed some females this winter. :-D

Introducing our Male Green Ameiva, AkA... Jungle runner, Dwarf Tegu.
(Ameiva ameiva)

He is about 14 months old, pretty friendly, and stupidly fast.

He will eat just about any bugs, worms, pinkies and some fruits.

Hope you like him. Thanks for looking.

 

[Herplings]

Here are a couple of more pictures.

 

[carcharios]

They had one of those at the local pet store but he was ultra skittish. Definitely a cool looking lizard. We have native racerunners here in MD that look a lot like the jungle runners.

 

[chelvis]

I had one of those a few year back. Man when they bite it hurts like *$&@#. I loved that little guy but i had to sell him to make room for a new gecko project.

 

[DMBizeau]

That is a really cool looking lizard.

 

[SjRrMc]

i saw one of those at my reptile shop in maryland we asked the people to get him out and the guy did at it was so fast it ran on the tile after jumping out of the guys hands that it couldnt slow down to run the corner.

 

[Herplings]

Thanks guys.

Yeah, he is ridiculously fast. He is still in the middle of shedding. I will get some more pictures of him once he sheds all the way.

 

[AB^]

I used to keep several Tiger Ameivas (pictured in my signature) Hence AB^ short for Ameivaboy the name I use on most forums.
They are very fun to keep if you can give them large enclosures.
They're not the easiest to keep alive and well for extended periods though.

 

[AB^]

Oh and that might be Ameiva chaitzami

 

[Herplings]

Thanks for the info.

He has seemed to do pretty good so far.

Yeah I have seen your screen name around before. I didn't realize you are the same person. :-D

 

[JohnMatthew]

Neat little bugger, best of luck finding females and pumping out some babies.

 

[laurarfl]

I thought A chaitzami was the leopard ameiva and more spotted. And the tigers are more striped. I have one just like that guy and the best I could come up with was A ameiva. Being in Florida, it seems there is a wild population in S FL that is often rounded up and herded into the pet trade. Again, that was the best info I could come up with when I got mine.

 

[AB^]

I thought A chaitzami was the leopard ameiva and more spotted. And the tigers are more striped. I have one just like that guy and the best I could come up with was A ameiva. Being in Florida, it seems there is a wild population in S FL that is often rounded up and herded into the pet trade. Again, that was the best info I could come up with when I got mine.

The whole group (some 25+ species) could use a taxonomic review.
The Florida specimens are Ameiva Ameiva I beleive the subspecies petersi has been dosumented there as well.

The Chaitzami I have personally seen varied in the amount of spotting.
But they all basically looked like Ameiva Ameiva minues the green.

Tiger Ameiva is a generic term (but a cool one) used to commonly describe 2 species.
Ameiva Festiva and Ameiva Undulata have both been listed as tiger Ameivas.

When I was keeping them I spent countless hours researching the taxonomy of the group to figure out what mine were exactly.

The best i could come up with would be that mine were indeed Ameiva Undulata according to a scientific journal I was lucky enough to get my hands on. Though this journal was from the late 60's early 70s I found it to be a much more reliable source for ID'ing the species than google images are some half assed article written but someone who basically copied/pasted and reworded other people's articles.

There was a lot of information I only had limited access to. One such place would be via JSTOR though since I'm not affiliated with any Universities I was unable to gain access to those journals.

 

[AB^]

I guess I missed the first group of images when I had originally responded to this.
The the images in the first post of this thread do look Ameiva Ameiva.

I was judging from the second set of images where the owner is holding the animal.
Looked a lot more spotted there and couldnt see any of the color.

 

[laurarfl]

The whole group (some 25+ species) could use a taxonomic review.
The Florida specimens are Ameiva Ameiva I beleive the subspecies petersi has been dosumented there as well.


When I was keeping them I spent countless hours researching the taxonomy of the group to figure out what mine were exactly.

Agreed on both counts!! :-D

I didn't have access to the journals and such that you worked with, but just trying to search through databases, tourists photos, and journals on the web was a daunting task. It was interesting though. The conclusion I walked away with was the the whole Ameiva genus seems to be an organizational nightmare....loosely speaking.