Ameiva, commonly called jungle-runners, is a genus of whiptail lizards that belongs to the family Teiidae.

Geographic range: Member species of the genus Ameiva are found in South America, Central America and the Caribbean (West Indies).
Their major habitat in four regions of Brazil include: Caatinga, Cerrado, the Amazonian rain forest, and the Amazonian savanna.
Additionally, Ameiva ameiva has been introduced to Florida in the United States.

Species: Sourced from "The Reptile Database".

Image	Name	Distribution
	Koch, Venegas, Rödder, Flecks & Böhme, 2013}}	Peru
120px]]	(Linnaeus, 1758)}} – giant ameiva, green ameiva, South American ground lizard, Amazon racerunner	Central, South America, and some Caribbean Islands.
120px]]	(Garman, 1887)}} – giant ameiva, Amazon racerunner	Trinidad and Tobago and in Venezuela.
	Cope, 1862}} – Cope´s ameiva	Peru, Colombia, Venezuela, Netherlands Antilles, and Aruba.
	(Ruthven, 1924)}}	Peru.
120px]]	(Cope, 1892)}}	Isla de Providencia, San Andrés, and the Swan Islands.
	Giugliano, Nogueira, Valdujo, Collevatti & Colli, 2013}}	Brazil.
	Koch, Venegas, Rödder, Flecks & Böhme, 2013}}	Peru.
	Ugueto & Harvey, 2011}}	Venezuela.
	(Colli, Costa, Garda, Kopp, Mesquita, Péres, Valdujo, Vieira & Wiederhecker, 2003)}}	Brazil.
120px]]	(Baird & Girard, 1852)}} – giant ameiva, Amazon racerunner	Costa Rica, Panama, Venezuela, and Colombia.
	García-Pérez, 1995}}	Venezuela.
	Landauro, Garcia-Bravo & Venegas, 2015}}	Peru.
120px]]	Cope, 1879}} – Antillean ameiva	Grenada and St. Vincent.

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