Pholidoscelis is a genus of lizards that belongs to the family Teiidae. All species are endemic to the West Indies.

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Pholidoscelis
Common Puerto Rican ameiva (Pholidoscelis exsul)
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Reptilia
Order:	Squamata
Family:	Teiidae
Subfamily:	Teiinae
Genus:	Pholidoscelis Fitzinger, 1843

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• Pholidoscelis alboguttatus (Boulenger, 1896) – Mona ground lizard, Mona ameiva
• Pholidoscelis atratus (Garman, 1887) – Redonda ameiva
• Pholidoscelis auberi (Cocteau, 1838) – Auber's ameiva, Cuban ameiva
• Pholidoscelis chrysolaemus (Cope, 1868) – common ameiva, Hispaniolan giant ameiva
• †Pholidoscelis cineraceus (Barbour & Noble, 1915) – Guadeloupe ameiva (extinct)
• Pholidoscelis corax (Censky & Paulson, 1992) – Censky's ameiva, Anguilla black ameiva, Little Scrub Island ground lizard
• Pholidoscelis corvinus (Cope, 1861) – Sombrero ameiva
• Pholidoscelis desechensis (Heatwole & Torres, 1967) – Desecheo ground lizard
• Pholidoscelis dorsalis (Gray, 1838) – Jamaica ameiva
• Pholidoscelis erythrocephalus (Daudin, 1802) – St. Christopher ameiva
• Pholidoscelis exsul (Cope, 1862) – common Puerto Rican ameiva
• Pholidoscelis fuscatus (Garman, 1887) – Dominican ameiva
• Pholidoscelis griswoldi (Barbour, 1916) – Antiguan ameiva, Griswold's ameiva
• Pholidoscelis lineolatus (A.M.C. Duméril & Bibron, 1839) – Pigmy blue-tailed ameiva, dwarf teiid
• †Pholidoscelis major (A.M.C. Duméril & Bibron, 1839) – Martinique ameiva, Martinique giant ameiva
• Pholidoscelis maynardi (Garman, 1888) – Great Inagua ameiva
• Pholidoscelis plei (A.M.C. Duméril & Bibron, 1839) – Anguilla Bank ameiva
• Pholidoscelis pluvianotatus (Garman, 1887) – Montserrat ameiva
• Pholidoscelis polops (Cope, 1862) – St. Croix ameiva, St. Croix ground lizard
• Pholidoscelis taeniurus (Cope, 1862) – Hispaniolan blue-tailed ameiva, Haitian ameiva
• Pholidoscelis wetmorei (Stejneger, 1913) – Puerto Rican blue-tailed ameiva, Wetmore's ameiva

Nota bene: A binomial authority in parentheses indicates that the species was originally described in a genus other than Pholidiscelis.