Mabuya grandisterrae HEDGES & CONN, 2012
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Mabuya grandisterrae
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| Higher Taxa | Scincidae, Mabuyinae (Mabuyini), Scincoidea, Sauria, Squamata (lizards) |
| Subspecies | |
| Common Names | E: Grande-Terre Skink |
| Synonym | Mabuya grandisterrae HEDGES & CONN 2012: 101 Eumeces mabouia — DUMÉRIL & BIBRON 1839: 646 (part) Mabouya cepedii — GRAY 1845: 95 (part) Mabuya mabouia — BARBOUR 1914: 320 (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 (Grande-Terre) Type locality: Pointe-à-Pitre, Grande-Terre, Guadeloupe |
| Reproduction | |
| Types | Holotype: BMNH 1920.1.20.398 (listed as M. agilis in BMNH catalog), an adult female, collected at Pointe-à-Pitre, Grande-Terre, Guadeloupe, by "Vitrac" and donated to the BMNH by F. Lataste; entered into the BMNH registry on 20 January 1920 (and thus collected at some time before that date). Paratypes (n = 4). Guadeloupe. USNM 11175, USNM 11249 and USNM 565045–46, May 1880, Guadeloupe, no specific locality (no collector information available). |
| Diagnosis | Diagnosis: Mabuya grandisterrae sp. nov. is characterized by (1) maximum SVL in males, 90.8 mm; (2) maximum SVL in females, 102.1 mm; (3) snout width, 2.34–3.44% SVL; (4) head length, 17.2–19.8% SVL; (5) head width, 12.5–13.9% SVL; (6) ear length, 1.26–2.08% SVL; (7) toe-IV length, 10.2–12.8% SVL; (8) prefrontals, two; (9) supraoculars, two (20%), three (80%); (10) supraciliaries, four; (11) frontoparietals, two; (12) supralabial below the eye, five (80%), six (20%); (13) nuchal rows, one; (14) dorsals, 54–61; (15) ventrals, 62–68; (16) dorsals + ventrals, 116–128; (17) midbody scale rows, 30–34; (18) finger-IV lamellae, 14–15; (19) toe-IV lamellae, 17–18; (20) finger-IV + toe-IV lamellae, 31–33; (21) supranasal contact, Y (80%), N (20%); (22) prefrontal contact, Y (20%), N (80%); (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). 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 (grandisterrae) is a feminine genitive singular noun, referring to the distribution of the species on Grand-Terre, Guadeloupe. |
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