Mabuya guadeloupae HEDGES & CONN, 2012
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Mabuya guadeloupae
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| Higher Taxa | Scincidae, Mabuyinae (Mabuyini), Scincoidea, Sauria, Squamata (lizards) |
| Subspecies | |
| Common Names | E: Guadeloupean Skink, Guadeloupe Skink |
| Synonym | Mabuya guadeloupae HEDGES & CONN 2012: 104 Eumeces mabouia — DUMÉRIL & BIBRON, 1839:646 (part) Mabouya cepedii — GRAY, 1845:95 (part) Mabuya mabouia — BARBOUR, 1914:321 (part) Mabuya sp. indet. — BARBOUR, 1930:105 Mabuya mabouia — BARBOUR, 1935:129 (part) Mabuya mabouya mabouya — DUNN, 1936:544 (part) Mabuya mabouia — BARBOUR, 1937:147 (part) Mabuya mabouia — UNDERWOOD, 1963:83 (part) 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) |
| Distribution | Guadeloupe (Basse-Terre) Type locality: Guadeloupe" (no specific locality, but assumed to be Basse-Terre). |
| Reproduction | viviparous (not imputed, fide Zimin et al. 2022) |
| Types | Holotype: FMNH 213, an adult female, "Guadeloupe" (no specific locality, but assumed to be Basse-Terre; see Remarks), collected by Charles B. Cory in ca. 1892. Paratypes (n = 2). Guadeloupe. FMNH 212, an adult female with same data as holotype; FMNH 214, an adult male, "Guadeloupe" (no specific locality), collected by W. W. Brown, Jr, in 1892. |
| Diagnosis | Diagnosis: Mabuya guadeloupae sp. nov. is characterized by (1) maximum SVL in males, 94.3 mm; (2) maximum SVL in females, 106 mm; (3) snout width, 2.63–2.99% SVL; (4) head length, 16.4–17.3% SVL; (5) head width, 11.6–12.0% SVL; (6) ear length, 1.28–1.82% SVL; (7) toe-IV length, 8.77–9.72% 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, 60–63; (15) ventrals, 67–70; (16) dorsals + ventrals, 128–133; (17) midbody scale rows, 32–34; (18) finger-IV lamellae, 14; (19) toe-IV lamellae, 18–21; (20) finger-IV + toe-IV lamellae, 32–35; (21) supranasal contact, N; (22) prefrontal contact, N; (23) supraocular-1/frontal contact, Y; (24) parietal contact, Y; (25) pale middorsal stripe, Y; (26) dark dorsolateral stripe, Y (short, a thin line on nape); (27) dark lateral stripe, Y; (28) pale lateral stripe, Y; 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). Critically Endangered and possibly extinct (CR A2ace). 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 (guadeloupae) is a feminine genitive singular noun, referring to the distribution of the species on Guadeloupe. In the past, the name "Guadeloupe" was used synonymously with Basse-Terre, where the type material was probably collected and the island where the species is thought to be endemic. |
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