Marisora berengerae (MIRALLES, 2006)

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Higher Taxa	Scincidae, Mabuyinae (Mabuyini), Scincoidea, Sauria, Squamata (lizards)
Subspecies
Common Names	E: San Andrés Skink, San Andrés Skink
Synonym	Mabuya berengerae MIRALLES 2006 Mabuya berengerae — MCNISH 2011 Alinea berengerae — HEDGES & CONN 2012 Mabuya berengerae — PINTO-SÁNCHEZ et al. 2015 Marisora berengerae — HEDGES et al. 2019 Marisora berengerae — MCCRANIE et al. 2020
Distribution	San Andres Island (SW Caribbean) Type locality: San Andrés Island (between Morgans Cave and Punta Sur), Departamento de Archipielago de San Andrés, Colombia flocated between 12° 28° and 12° 36'N, and 81° 40' and 81° 44'W.
Reproduction	ovovivparous
Types	Holotype: UMMZ 127884, unsexed adult
Diagnosis	Diagnosis. Mabuya berengerae is a particularly uncommon species which can be easily distinguished from all other Mabuya species, including its closest relative M. pergravis, by the following combination of characters: an extremely long, slender and pointed snout, the highest number ofenlarged nuchal scales ofany known species of Mabuya (Table l in MIRALLES 2006), a high number of subdigital lamellae under the fourth toes (19) and a contrasting reticulated pattern on the upper side of the head, the neck and the back, also unique in the genus. Caidedo 2014 provides a diagnosis in Spanish. Additional details (2027 characters) are available for collaborators and contributors. Please contact us for details.
Comment	Conservation: Possibly extinct. Abundance: only known from the type locality (Meiri et al. 2017). Distribution: see map in McCranie et al. 2020: 317 (Fig. 6).
Etymology	The species name (berengerae) is a feminine genitive singular noun referring to the first name of the spouse of the describer, Bérengère (Miralles 2006a).
References	Caicedo-PoRtilla, José Rances 2014. Rediscovery of Mabuya berengerae, Mabuya pergravis (Squamata: Scincidae) and Coniophanes andresensis (Squamata: Colubridae), and assesment of its threatened status in the San Andrés and Providencia Islands, Colombia [in Spanish]. Caldasia 36 (1): 181-201 Hedges SB, Powell R, Henderson RW, Hanson S, and Murphy JC 2019. Definition of the Caribbean Islands biogeographic region, with checklist and recommendations for standardized common names of amphibians and reptiles. Caribbean Herpetology 67: 1–53 Hedges, S.B. & Conn, C.E. 2012. A new skink fauna from Caribbean islands (Squamata, Mabuyidae, Mabuyinae). Zootaxa 3288: 1–244 - get paper here MCCRANIE, JAMES R.; AMY J. MATTHEWS, S. BLAIR HEDGES 2020. A morphological and molecular revision of lizards of the genus Marisora Hedges & Conn (Squamata: Mabuyidae) from Central America and Mexico, with descriptions of four new species. Zootaxa 4763 (3): 301–353 - get paper here McNish, T. 2011. La fauna del archipiélago de San Andrés, Providencia y Santa Catalina, Colombia, Sudamérica. Colomba Andina de Impresos, ISBN 978-958-99518-1-1 Meiri, Shai; Aaron M. Bauer, Allen Allison, Fernando Castro-Herrera, Laurent Chirio, Guarino Colli, Indraneil Das, Tiffany M. Doan, Frank Glaw, Lee L. Grismer, Marinus Hoogmoed, Fred Kraus, Matthew LeBreton, Danny Meirte, Zoltán T. Nagy, Cristiano d 2017. Extinct, obscure or imaginary: the lizard species with the smallest ranges. Diversity and Distributions - get paper here Miralles, Aurélien 2006. A new species of Mabuya (Reptilia, Squamata, Scincidae) from the Caribbean Island of San Andrés, with a new interpretation of nuchal scales: a character of taxonomic importance. The Herpetological Journal 16 (1):1-7. - get paper here Pinto-Sánchez, Nelsy Rocío; Martha L. Calderón-Espinosa, Aurelien Miralles, Andrew J. Crawford, Martha Patricia Ramírez-Pinilla 2015. Molecular phylogenetics and biogeography of the Neotropical skink genus Mabuya Fitzinger (Squamata: Scincidae) with emphasis on Colombian populations. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2015.07.016 - get paper here
External links	IUCN Red List National Center for Biotechnology Information Google images

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