Mabuya
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| Mabuya mabouya | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia (paraphyletic) |
| Infraclass: | Lepidosauromorpha |
| Order: | Squamata |
| Suborder: | Lacertilia |
| Infraorder: | Scincomorpha |
| Family: | Scincidae |
| Subfamily: | Lygosominae |
| Genus: | Mabuya Fitzinger, 1826 |
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Mabuya is a genus of long-tailed skinks restricted to species from the Americas. The American mabuyas are primarily carnivorous, though many are omnivorous. Formerly, many Old World species were placed here, as Mabuya was a kind of "wastebasket taxon". These are now placed in the genera Chioninia, Eutropis and Trachylepis.
The ancestors of the genus are believed to have rafted across the Atlantic from Africa during the last 9 million years.[1]
[edit] Species[2]
- Mabuya agilis (Raddi, 1823)
- Mabuya agmosticha (Rodrigues, 2000)
- Mabuya altamazonica (Miralles, Barrio-Amorós, Rivas, Chaparro-Auza, 2006)
- Mabuya arajara (Reboucas-Spieker, 1981) – Arajara Mabuya
- Mabuya berengerae (Miralles, 2006)
- Mabuya bistriata (Spix, 1825) – Shiny Mabuya, Shiny Lizard, Two-striped Mabuya
- Mabuya caissara (Reboucas-Spieker, 1974) – Caissara Squamata
- Mabuya carvalhoi (Reboucas-Spieker & Vanzolini, 1990) – Carvalho's Mabuya
- Mabuya cochabambae (Dunn, 1935)
- Mabuya croizati (Horton,1973) – Horton's Mabuya
- Mabuya dorsivittata (Cope, 1862) – Paraguay Mabuya
- Mabuya falconensis (Mijares-Urrtia & Arends, 1997)
- Mabuya frenata (Cope, 1862) – Cope's Mabuya
- Mabuya guaporicola (Dunn, 1935) – Dunn's Mabuya.
- Mabuya heathi (Schmidt & Inger, 1951) – Brazilian Mabuya
- Mabuya infralineata (Boettger, 1913)
- Mabuya lineolata (Noble & Hassler, 1933) – Lined Mabuya
- Mabuya luciae (Garman, 1887)
- Mabuya mabouya (Bonnaterre, 1789)
- Mabuya macleani (Mayer & Lazell, 2000) – Slippery Back
- Mabuya macrophthalma (Mausfeld & Bõhme, 2002)
- Mabuya macrorhyncha (Hoge, 1946) – Hoge's Mabuya
- Mabuya nigropalmata (Andersson, 1918) – Black Mabuya
- Mabuya nigropunctata (Spix, 1825) – Black-spotted Mabuya
- Mabuya ozorii (Bocage, 1893)
- Mabuya sloanii (Daudin, 1803) – Slippery-backed Mabuya
- Mabuya unimarginata (Cope, 1862) – Central American Mabuya
[edit] References
- ^ Carranza, S.; Arnold, N. E. (2003-08-05). "Investigating the origin of transoceanic distributions: mtDNA shows Mabuya lizards (Reptilia, Scincidae) crossed the Atlantic twice". Systematics and Biodiversity (Cambridge University Press) 1 (2): 275–282. doi:10.1017/S1477200003001099. http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract?fromPage=online&aid=168963. Retrieved 2008-04-04.
- ^ Mabuya, The Reptile Database
[edit] External links
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- Mabuya by Cyberlizard at web.archive.org
- Scincidae at EMBL Heidelberg
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