Mabuya

Mabuya mabouya

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Scincoidea

Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Superphylum: Deuterostomia Phylum: Chordata Subphylum: Vertebrata Infraphylum: Gnathostomata Megaclassis: Osteichthyes Cladus: Sarcopterygii Cladus: Rhipidistia Cladus: Tetrapodomorpha Cladus: Eotetrapodiformes Cladus: Elpistostegalia Superclassis: Tetrapoda Cladus: Reptiliomorpha Cladus: Amniota Classis: Reptilia Cladus: Eureptilia Cladus: Romeriida Subclassis: Diapsida Cladus: Sauria Infraclassis: Lepidosauromorpha Superordo: Lepidosauria Ordo: Squamata Subordo: Scincomorpha Superfamilia: Scincoidea

Familia: Scincidae
Subfamilia: Mabuyinae
Genus: Mabuya
Species (9): M. cochonae – M. desiradae – M. dominicana – M. grandisterrae – M. guadeloupae – M. hispaniolae – M. mabouya – M. montserratae – M. parviterrae

Name

Mabuya Fitzinger, 1826: 23 [conserved name]

• Type species: Lacerta mabouya Bonnaterre, 1789, by absolute tautonymy.
• Placed on the Official List of Generic Names in Zoology by Opinion 92 (1926: 3)

Synonymy

• Mabuya Rafinesque, 1815: 76 (nomen nudum)
• Mabuia — Cuvier, 1829: 64 (unjustified emendation)
• Mabouya — Duméril & Bibron, 1839: 579 (unjustified emendation)
• Mabouya — Gray, 1845: 93 (unjustified emendation)
• Mabuia — Cope, 1862: 185 (unjustified emendation)
• Mabuia — Boulenger, 1887: 150 (unjustified emendation)
• Mabuia — Cope, 1900: 616 (unjustified emendation)
• Mabuia — Meerwarth, 1901: 37 (unjustified emendation)

References

Primary references

• Fitzinger, L. 1826. Neue Classification der Reptilien nach ihren natürlichen Verwandtschaften. Nebst einer Verwandtschafts-Tafel und einem Verzeichnisse der Reptilien-Sammlung des K. K. zoologischen Museum's zu Wien. J.G. Hübner: Wien. vii + 66 pp. BHL Reference page. 
• International Commisision on Zoological Nomenclature 1926. Opinion 92. Sixteen generic names of Pisces, Amphibia, and Reptilia placed in the Official List of Generic Names. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections 73(4): 3–4. BHL Reference page. 

Additional references

• Dunn, E.R. 1936. Notes on American mabuyas. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia 87: 533–557.
• Anonymous (International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature). 1954. Opinion 240. Correction of an erroneous entry in the “Official List of Generic Names in Zoology” relating to the type species of the nominal genus “Mabuya” Fitzinger, 1826 (Class Reptilia) (Correction of an error in “Opinion” 92). Opinion Declaration International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature 5: 3–11.
• Greer, A.E. & Broadley, D.G. 2000. Six characters of systematic importance in the Scincid lizard genus Mabuya. Hamadryad 25: 1–12.
• Greer, A.E. & Nussbaum, R.A. 2000. New character useful in the Systematics of the Scincid Lizard Genus Mabuya. Copeia 2000: 615–618.
• Mausfeld, P., Schmitz, A., Böhme, W., Misof, B., Vrcibradic, D. & Rocha, C.F.D. 2002. Phylogenetic Affinities of Mabuya atlantica Schmidt, 1945, Endemic to the Atlantic Ocean Archipelago of Fernando de Noronha (Brazil): Necessity of Partitioning the Genus Mabuya Fitzinger, 1826 (Scincidae: Lygosominae). Zoologischer Anzeiger 241(3): 281–293. DOI: 10.1078/0044-5231-00081 Reference page. 
• Carranza, S.; Arnold, N.E. 2003. Investigating the origin of transoceanic distributions: mtDNA shows Mabuya lizards (Reptilia, Scincidae) crossed the Atlantic twice. Systematics and Biodiversity 1(2): 275–282. DOI: 10.1017/S1477200003001099
• Miralles, A. 2005. The identity of Lacertus mabouya Lacépède, 1788, with description of a neotype: an approach toward the taxonomy of New World Mabuya. Herpetologica 61(1): 46–53. DOI: 10.1655/04-50.1
• Whiting, A.S.; Sites Jr., J.W.; Pellegrino, K.C.M.; Rodrigues, M.T. 2006. Comparing alignment methods for inferring the history of the new world lizard genus Mabuya (Squamata: Scincidae). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 38: 719–730. DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2005.11.011
• Miralles, A., Rivas Fuenmayor, G., Bonillo, C., Schargel, W.E., Barros, T., García-Pérez, J.E. & Barrio-Amorós, C.L. 2009. Molecular systematics of Carribean skinks of the genus Mabuya (Reptilia, Scincidae), with descriptions of two new species from Venezuela. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 156(3): 598–616. DOI: 10.1111/j.1096-3642.2008.00487.x Reference page. 
• Hedges, S.B. & Conn, C.E. 2012. A new skink fauna from Caribbean islands (Squamata, Mabuyidae, Mabuyinae). Zootaxa 3288(1): 1–244. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3288.1.1 ; PDF Reference page. 
• Hedges, S.B., Lorvelec, O., Barré, N., Berchel, J., Combot, M.D., Vidal, N. & Pavis, C. 2016. A new species of skink from the Guadeloupe Archipelago (Squamata, Mabuyidae, Mabuya). Caribbean Herpetology 53: 1–14. DOI: 10.31611/ch.53 Reference page. 

Links

• Uetz, P. & Hallermann, J. 2024. Mabuya . The Reptile Database. Accessed on 11 January 2024.

Vernacular names

English: Antillean Two-lined Skinks
հայերեն: Մաբույա

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