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 |
| 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). |
| 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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