Mabuya
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| Genus: | Mabuya Fitzinger, 1826
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Mabuya is a genus of long-tailed skinks restricted to species from the Americas. They are primarily carnivorous, though many are omnivorous. The genus is viviparous, having a highly evolved placenta that resembles that of eutherian mammals.[1] Formerly, many Old World species were placed here, as Mabuya was a kind of "wastebasket taxon". These Old World species are now placed in the genera Chioninia, Eutropis, and Trachylepis. Under the older classification, the New World species were referred to as "American mabuyas".
The ancestors of the genus are believed to have rafted across the Atlantic from Africa during the last 9 million years.[2]
Species
Listed alphabetically by specific name.[3]
- Mabuya agilis (Raddi, 1823)
- Mabuya agmosticha Rodrigues, 2000
- Mabuya altamazonica Miralles, Barrio-Amorós, G. Rivas, Chaparro-Auza, 2006
- Mabuya arajara Rebouças-Spieker, 1981 – Arajara mabuya
- Mabuya berengerae Miralles, 2006
- Mabuya bistriata (Spix, 1825) – shiny mabuya, shiny lizard, two-striped mabuya
- Mabuya caissara Reboucas-Spieker, 1974
- 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 K.P. 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 & Böhme, 2002
- Mabuya macrorhyncha Hoge, 1946 – Hoge's mabuya
- Mabuya meridensis Miralles, G. Rivas, & Schargel, 2005
- Mabuya nebulosylvestris Miralles, Rivas, Bonillo, Schargel, Barros, García-Perez, & Barrio-Amorós, 2009
- 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
- Mabuya wrightii Boulenger, 1887
- Mabuya zuliae Miralles, G. Rivas, Bonillo, Schargel, Barros, García-Perez, & Barrio-Amorós, 2009
Nota bene: A binomial authority in parentheses indicates that the species was originally described in a genus other than Mabuya.
References
- ^ Viviparity in lizards, snakes and mammals.
- ^ Carranza, S.; Arnold, E.N. [in French] (2003-08-05). "Investigating the origin of transoceanic distributions: mtDNA shows Mabuya lizards (Reptilia, Scincidae) crossed the Atlantic twice". Systematics and Biodiversity. 1 (2). Cambridge University Press: 275–282. doi:10.1017/S1477200003001099. Retrieved 2008-04-04.
- ^ Mabuya, The Reptile Database.
Further reading
- Fitzinger LI. 1826. Neue Classification der Reptilien nach ihren natürlichen Verwandtschaften. Nebst einer Verwandtschafts-tafel und einem Verzeichnisse der Reptilien-Sammlung des K.K. Zoologischen Museums zu Wien. Vienna: J.G. Heubner. 5 unnumbered pp. + 67 pp. + one plate. (Mabuya, new genus, p. 23). (in German and Latin).
External links
- Mabuya by Cyberlizard at web.archive.org.
- Scincidae at EMBL Heidelberg.
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