Mabuya cochonae HEDGES & CONN, 2012
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Mabuya cochonae
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| Higher Taxa | Scincidae, Mabuyinae (Mabuyini), Scincoidea, Sauria, Squamata (lizards) |
| Subspecies | |
| Common Names | E: Cochons Skink |
| Synonym | Mabuya cochonae HEDGES & CONN 2012: 87 Mabuya mabouya mabouya — SCHWARTZ & THOMAS 1975: 141 (part) Mabuya mabouya mabouya — MACLEAN et al. 1977: 38 (part) Mabuya mabouya mabouya — SCHWARTZ & HENDERSON 1988:150 (part) Mabuya mabouya mabouya — SCHWARTZ & HENDERSON 1991:457 (part) Mabuya bistriata — POWELL et al. 1996: 82 (part) Mabuya bistriata — MALHOTRA & THORPE 1999: 84 (part) Mabuya sloanii — MAYER & LAZELL 2000: 883 (part) Mabuya mabouya — BREUIL 2002: 267 (part) Mabuya mabouya — MIRALLES 2005: 49 (part) Mabuya mabouya — HENDERSON & POWELL 2009: 292 (part) Mabuya cochonae — HEDGES et al. 2019 Mabuya cochonae — THORPE 2022 |
| Distribution | Guadeloupe Type locality: Îlet à Cochons, Guadeloupe |
| Reproduction | |
| Types | Holotype: KU 242043, an adult male, collected by Albert Schwartz and Richard Thomas on Îlet à Cochons, Guadeloupe, on 30 January–3 February 1963. Paratype (n = 1). Guadeloupe. KU 242044, an adult female, same locality and information as the holotype. |
| Diagnosis | Diagnosis: Mabuya cochonae sp. nov. is characterized by (1) maximum SVL in males, 96.7 mm; (2) maximum SVL in females, 98 mm; (3) snout width, 2.68–2.78% SVL; (4) head length, 18.7–19.1% SVL; (5) head width, 12.8–13.1% SVL; (6) ear length, 1.02–1.12% SVL; (7) toe-IV length, 11.1–11.6% SVL; (8) prefrontals, two; (9) supraoculars, three; (10) supraciliaries, four; (11) frontoparietals, two; (12) supralabial below the eye, five; (13) nuchal rows, one; (14) dorsals, 58–62; (15) ventrals, 70; (16) dorsals + ventrals, 128–132; (17) midbody scale rows, 32; (18) finger-IV lamellae, 12–14; (19) toe-IV lamellae, 17; (20) finger-IV + toe-IV lamellae, 29–31; (21) supranasal contact, Y; (22) prefrontal contact, N; (23) supraocular-1/frontal contact, Y; (24) parietal contact, Y; (25) pale middorsal stripe, N; (26) dark dorsolateral stripe, N; (27) dark lateral stripe, Y; (28) pale lateral stripe, N; and (29) palms and soles, dark (Tables 3–5). Unfortunately we had to temporarily remove additional information as this was scraped by multiple AI companies who sell that data to their customers. These details, e.g. detailed descriptions or comparisons (about 2976 characters) are available for collaborators and contributors. Please contact us for details. |
| Comment | Conservation: extremely rare and possibly extinct. No living individual of any of these species has been seen in recent decades (Hedges et al. 2016). Synonymy: The validity of this species has been challenged by Miralles et al. 2017 who considered it as indistinguishable from and thus as a synonym of M. desiradae. This in turn has been challenged by Hedges et al. 2019. Abundance: only known from its original description (Meiri et al. 2017). |
| Etymology | The species name (cochonae) is a feminine genitive singular noun, referring to the distribution of the species on Îlet à Cochons. |
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