Mabuya dissimilis

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Striped Grass Mabuya
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Squamata
Suborder: Sauria
Family: Scincidae
Genus: Mabuya
Species: M. dissimilis
Binomial name
Mabuya dissimilis
(Hallowell, 1857)

Striped Grass Mabuya Mabuya dissimilis is a species of skink found in South Asia.

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[edit] Description

Snout moderate, obtuse. Lower eyelid with an undivided semi-transparent disk. Nostril behind the vertical of the suture between the rostral and the first labial; no postnasal; anterior loreal in contact with the first labial; supranasals in contact behind the rostral; frontonasal broader than long; prefrontals forming a median suture; frontal in contact with the second supraocular only (exceptionally with the first as well); 4 supraoculars, second largest; 6 supraciliaries ; frontoparietals distinct, usually nearly as long as the frontal, and larger than the interparietal, which entirely separates the parietals; usually no distinct nuchals; 4, seldom 5, labials anterior to the subocular, which is about twice as long as the neighbouring shields and not narrowed below. Ear-opening oval, larger than a lateral scale, smaller than the eye-opening, with 3 or 4 short pointed lobules anteriorly. Dorsal scales strongly bicarinate, nuchals and laterals tricarinate; 34 to 36 scales round the middle of the body, subequal. The adpressed limbs overlap. Toes short; subdigital lamellae smooth. Tail about 2.6 times length of head and body. Olive or brownish above, black-spotted, and with 3 more or less distinct light longitudinal streaks, the vertebral sometimes absent; flanks white-spotted; a short horizontal white streak below the eye; lower surfaces whitish.[1] From snout to vent 3.5 inches; tail 5.5. Plains of Northern India, from Sind to Bengal, also in the "Western Himalayas (Chamba)".

[edit] Distribution

India, Pakistan, Nepal, Bangladesh, Myanmar Type locality: Bengal

[edit] Notes

  1. ^ Boulenger, G. A. 1890. Fauna of British India. Reptilia and Amphibia.

[edit] References

  • Blanford, W. T. 1879 Notes on a collection of reptiles made by major O.B. St. John, R.E., at Ajmere in Rajputana. J. Asiat. Soc. Bengal xlviii: 119-127
  • Boulenger, G. A. 1887 Catalogue of the Lizards in the British Museum (Nat. Hist.) III. Lacertidae, Gerrhosauridae, Scincidae, Anelytropsidae, Dibamidae, Chamaeleontidae. London: 575pp.
  • Das I. 1991 A new species of Mabuya from Tamil Nadu State, Southern India (Squamata: Scincidae). Journal of Herpetology 25 (3): 342-344.
  • Fischer, J. G. 1885 Ichthyologische und herpetologische Bemerkungen. V. Herpetologische Bemerkungen. Jb. Hamb. Wiss. Anst. 2: 82-121
  • Hallowell,E. 1857 Notice of some new and rare species of Scincidae in the collection of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. Trans. Am. Philos. Soc., Philadelphia, 11: 71-82
  • Hora 1927 Rec. Ind. Mus. 29: 2

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