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Ameiva sp.
Lizards were approximately 14 inches long. Blue extended all the way to the tip of the tail. Colors in photo don't begin to do this justice.
Found mostly in clearings and along river banks - basking in the sun. Lowland rainforest. This pair was spotted on the grounds of Explorama Lodge on the Amazon River.
Would love to know how much variation is found in the coloring of this species. Is it like Iguana iguana with lots of color morphs or not? Hesitate to call it Ameiva ameiva because it doesn't look exactly like the picture in my field guide and I have no idea how many sp. of Ameiva are found in the Amazon.
Spotted on Jul 7, 2010
Submitted on Feb 10, 2012
5 Comments
awesome!
Sounds wonderful! In my opinion it is one of, if not the most important goal in environmental protection to include and thrill the local people and specially local kids and schools in looking at their own treasures just around of them. Telling them all day that they have a big responsability to preserve the intact nature. Thanks for your daily efforts!
@bayucca. Amazon Rainforest Workshops is a small organization that organizes field expeditions to the Peruvian Amazon for students and educators. We created the "Species Spotlight: Peruvian Amazon" mission on Project Noah to give our participants an opportunity to do something meaningful with their wildlife photos and to demonstrate the power of taxonomy as a tool for education and conservation. Our hope is that once this mission is off the ground we will also have Peruvian students onboard with us sharing the wildlife that they see in their backyards every day - helping us to create a virtual "field guide" to the region. Personally, my background is in cellular biology and science education, but I've always been a naturalist / ecologist at heart.
That would have been my next question: Who is AmazonWorkshops? Scientific background? And I see some butterflies in the background of the icon :-)... I think we will spend some nice time around Indiana!
What beauties!