Mabuya desiradae

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: Mabuya desiradae

Name

Mabuya desiradae Hedges & Conn 2012: 94 Figs. 30B, 32B, 38

Holotype: KU 242045, an adult male, collected by Albert Schwartz and Richard Thomas on 28 February 1963.

Type locality: Anse d’Echelle, La Désirade, Guadeloupe.

Paratype (n = 1): Guadeloupe. KU 242046, an adult male, same locality and information as the holotype.

Mentions

• Mabuya mabouya mabouya — Schwartz & Thomas, 1975: 141 (part).
• Mabuya mabouya mabouya — Schwartz & Henderson, 1988: 150 (part).
• Mabuya mabouya mabouya — Schwartz & Henderson, 1991: 457 (part).
• Mabuya bistriata — Powell et al., 1996: 82 (part).
• Mabuya bistriata — Malhotra & Thorpe, 1999: 84 (part).
• Mabuya sloanii — Mayer & Lazell, 2000: 883 (part).
• Mabuya mabouya — Breuil, 2002: 267 (part).
• Mabuya mabouya — Miralles, 2005: 49 (part).
• Mabuya mabouya — Henderson & Powell, 2009: 292 (part).
• Mabuya desiradae Hedges & Conn 2012: 94

References

• 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. 

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• Miralles, A. 2005: The identity of Lacertus mabouya Lacepede, 1788, with description of a neotype: an approach toward the taxonomy of New World Mabuya. Herpetologica, 61: 46–53.
• Henderson, R.W. & Powell, R. 2009: Natural history of West Indian amphibians and reptiles. University Press of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, 495 pp.

Vernacular names

English: Désirade Skink