Mabuya
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| American mabuyas | |
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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 |
| Species | |
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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]
Species
Listed alphabetically.[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 meridensis Miralles, 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, Rivas, Bonillo, Schargel, Barros, García-Perez, & Barrio-Amorós, 2009
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. Retrieved 2008-04-04.
- ↑ Mabuya, The Reptile Database
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- Mabuya by Cyberlizard at web.archive.org
- Scincidae at EMBL Heidelberg
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