Spondylurus monitae HEDGES & CONN, 2012

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Higher Taxa	Scincidae, Mabuyinae (Mabuyini), Scincoidea, Sauria, Squamata (lizards)
Subspecies
Common Names	E: Monito Skink
Synonym	Spondylurus monitae HEDGES & CONN 2012: 182 Mabuya mabouya sloanii — ROLLE et al. 1964: 322 (part) Mabuya mabouya sloanei — SCHWARTZ & THOMAS 1975: 141 (part) Mabuya mabouya sloanei — MACLEAN et al. 1977: 27 (part) Mabuya mabouya sloanei — HEATWOLE et al. 1981: 34 (part) Mabuya mabouya sloanei — SCHWARTZ & HENDERSON 1988: 151 (part) Mabuya mabouya sloanei — SCHWARTZ & HENDERSON 1991: 457 (part) Mabuya bistriata — POWELL et al. 1996: 82 (part) Mabuya sloanii — HENDERSON & POWELL 2009: 293 (part)
Distribution	Puerto Rico (Isla Monito) Type locality: Isla Monito, Puerto Rico
Reproduction	viviparous (phylogenetic imputation, fide Zimin et al. 2022)
Types	Holotype: USNM 576301, an adult female, collected on Isla Monito, Puerto Rico, United States, 12–13 February 1993, by Manuel Leal and Richard Thomas. Field tag USNMFS 192877. Paratypes (n = 6). Isla Monito, Puerto Rico. RT 11377–79, 11427, Manuel Leal and Richard Thomas, 3–4 April 1993; RT 11391, Miguel Garcia, Manuel Leal, and Richard Thomas, 13–14 April 1993; and RT 11430, Richard Thomas, November 1993.
Diagnosis	Diagnosis: Spondylurus monitae sp. nov. is characterized by (1) maximum SVL in males, 90.3 mm; (2) maximum SVL in females, 94.5 mm; (3) snout width, 2.42–3.16% SVL; (4) head length, 16.2–17.8% SVL; (5) head width, 11.5–13.8% SVL; (6) ear length, 1.35–1.59% SVL; (7) toe-IV length, 8.34–10.7% SVL; (8) prefrontals, two; (9) supraoculars, three (43%), four (57%); (10) supraciliaries, three (29%), four (43%), five (29%); (11) frontoparietals, two; (12) supralabial below the eye, five; (13) nuchal rows, two; (14) dorsals, 62–64; (15) ventrals, 64–69; (16) dorsals + ventrals, 126–132; (17) midbody scale rows, 32–34; (18) finger-IV lamellae, 12–15; (19) toe-IV lamellae, 16–17; (20) finger-IV + toe-IV lamellae, 29–32; (21) supranasal contact, N; (22) prefrontal contact, N; (23) supraocular-1/frontal contact, Y (86%), N (14%); (24) parietal contact, Y; (25) pale middorsal stripe, Y; (26) dark dorsolateral stripe, Y; (27) dark lateral stripe, Y; (28) pale lateral stripe, Y; and (29) palms and soles, pale (Tables 3–5). Additional details (2206 characters) are available for collaborators and contributors. Please contact us for details.
Comment	Synonymy: Pinto-Sánchez et al. 2015 synonymized culebrae, macleani, and monitae with Spondylurus sloani, which was rejected by McCranie et al. 2020. Abundance: only known from the type locality (Meiri et al. 2017).
Etymology	The species name (monitae) is a feminine genitive singular noun referring to the distribution of the species on the island of Monito (it is feminine despite the masculine diminutive Spanish island name).
References	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 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 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 Zegarra, J P; Figuerola, C E & Monsegur-Rivera, O A; 2019. Spondylurus monitae (Monito Skink) Habitat use/behavior. Herpetological Review 50 (2): 378-379 - get paper here Zimin, A., Zimin, S. V., Shine, R., Avila, L., Bauer, A., Böhm, M., Brown, R., Barki, G., de Oliveira Caetano, G. H., Castro Herrera, F., Chapple, D. G., Chirio, L., Colli, G. R., Doan, T. M., Glaw, F., Grismer, L. L., Itescu, Y., Kraus, F., LeBreton 2022. A global analysis of viviparity in squamates highlights its prevalence in cold climates. Global Ecology and Biogeography, 00, 1–16 - get paper here
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