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: M. cochonae – M. desiradae – M. dominicana – M. grandisterrae – M. guadeloupae – M. hispaniolae – M. mabouya – M. montserratae

Name

Mabuya Fitzinger, 1826

Type species: Lacerta mabouya Bonnaterre, 1789: 51 by absolute tautonymy (not Lacertus mabouya Lacèpede, 1788: 378.).

Mentions

• Mabuya Rafinesque, 1815: 76 (nomen nudum).
• Mabuya Fitzinger, 1826: 23.
• 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).
• Mabuya — Taylor, 1956: 295 (part).
• Mabuya — Greer, 1970: 172 (part).
• Mabuya — Mausfeld et al., 2002: 288.
• Mabuya — Hedges & Conn, 2012: 85.

References

• Fitzinger, L. 1826: Neue Classification der Reptilien nach ihren natürlischen Verwandtschaften nebst einer Verwandtschafts-Tafel und einem Verzeichnisse der Reptilien-Sammlung des k. k. zoologisch Museum's zu Wien. J. G. Huebner, Wien, viii + 66 pp., 1 foldout table.

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• 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.
• Anonymous (International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature). 1987. Opinion 1463. De Lacépède, 1788–1789, Histoire Naturelle des Serpens and Later editions: rejected as a non-binominal work. Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature 44:265–267.
• Ramanamanjato, J.B.; Nussbaum, R.A. & Raxworthy, C.J. 1999: A new species of Mabuya Fitzinger (Squamata: Scincidae: Lygosominae) from northern Madagascar. Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Science (General), Science Occasional Papers 728. Full article.
• 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 :615–618.
• 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
• Jesus, J.; Brehm, A.; Harris, D.J. 2005: Relationships of scincid lizards (Mabuya spp.) from the islands of the Gulf of Guinea based on mtDNA sequence data. Amphibia-Reptilia 26: 467–473.
• 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.; Fuenmayor, G.R.; Bonillo, C.; Schargel, W.E.; Barros, T.; García-Perez, J.E.; Barrio-Amorós, C.L. 2009: Molecular systematics of Caribbean 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
• 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 . ISBN 978-1-86977-893-4 (paperback), ISBN 978-1-86977-894-1 (online edition). PDF. Reference page. 

Vernacular names

English: Antillean Two-lined Skinks
հայերեն: Մաբույա

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