Marisora aurulae HEDGES & CONN, 2012
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Marisora aurulae
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| Higher Taxa | Scincidae, Mabuyinae (Mabuyini), Scincoidea, Sauria, Squamata (lizards) |
| Subspecies | |
| Common Names | E: Lesser Windward Skink |
| Synonym | Marisora aurulae HEDGES & CONN 2012: 122 Mabuia agilis — BOULENGER 1887:191 (part) Mabuia aenea — GARMAN 1887:53 (part) Mabuya aenea — BARBOUR 1914:322 (part) Mabuya aenea — BARBOUR 1930:105 (part) Mabuya mabouia — BARBOUR 1935:129 (part) Mabuya mabouya mabouya — DUNN 1936:544 (part) Mabuya mabouia — BARBOUR 1937:147 (part) Mabuya aenea — UNDERWOOD 1963:83 (part) Mabuya mabouya mabouya — PETERS & DONOSO-BARROS 1970:200 (part) Mabuya mabouya mabouya — SCHWARTZ & THOMAS 1975:141 (part) Mabuya mabouya mabouya — MACLEAN et al. 1977:40–41 (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 sloanii — MAYER & LAZELL 2000:883 (part) Mabuya mabouya — MIRALLES 2005:49 (part?) Mabuya falconensis — MIRALLES et al. 2009:609 (part) Mabuya mabouya — HENDERSON & POWELL 2009: 292 (part) Marisora aurulae — MCCRANIE et al. 2020 |
| Distribution | St. Vincent (Young's Island), Tobago Type locality: Young's Island, St. Vincent |
| Reproduction | viviparous (not imputed, fide Zimin et al. 2022) |
| Types | Holotype: MCZ R-38196, an adult female from Young's Island, St. Vincent, collected 11 November 1934 by J. B. Myers. Paratypes (n = 12). Grenada. MCZ R-79743, James Lazell, Glover Island, 21 June 1964; USNM 72658–59, Belmont, St. George (no collection date available). Grenadines. KU 242049, Albert Schwartz, Saline Bay, Mayreau (Mayero) Island, 13 December 1961; KU 242050, Albert Schwartz, Petit Bateau, Tobago Cays, 13 December 1961; MCZ R-79098, C. MacIntosh, Carriacou, 1963. Tobago. KU 242012, Albert Schwartz, 1 mile E Canaan (13 May 1963); MCZ R-12079–80, W. E. Broadway (no specific locality or collection date available); MCZ R-55668, Garth Underwood, Scarborough, 5 September 1956. Trinidad. MCZ R-100482–83, J. Boos, La Romain, 14 June 1967. |
| Diagnosis | Diagnosis: Marisora aurulae sp. nov. is characterized by (1) maximum SVL in males, 80.9 mm; (2) maximum SVL in females, 89.0 mm; (3) snout width, 2.47–3.08% SVL; (4) head length, 16.7–19.1% SVL; (5) head width, 13.0–15.0% SVL; (6) ear length, 1.00–2.13% SVL; (7) toe-IV length, 7.96–10.5% SVL; (8) prefrontals, two; (9) supraoculars, four; (10) supraciliaries, four (85%), five (15%); (11) frontoparietals, two; (12) supralabial below the eye, five (69%), six (31%); (13) nuchal rows, one; (14) dorsals, 57–63; (15) ventrals, 57–68; (16) dorsals + ventrals, 114–129; (17) midbody scale rows, 30–32; (18) finger-IV lamellae, 11–15; (19) toe-IV lamellae, 14–17; (20) finger-IV + toe-IV lamellae, 26–32; (21) supranasal contact, Y (46%), N (54%); (22) prefrontal contact, N; (23) supraocular-1/frontal contact, N; (24) parietal contact, Y; (25) pale middorsal stripe, N; (26) dark dorsolateral stripe, N; (27) dark lateral stripe, Y; (28) pale lateral stripe, Y; and (29) palms and soles, dark (Tables 3–5). |
| Comment | Synonymy: HEDGES & CONN 2012. Pinto-Sánchez et al. (2015) synonymized Marisora aurulae and M. roatanae with their closest species because of genetic distances that they perceived as too low. This was challenged by McCranie et al. 2020. Sympatric species: Copeoglossum aurae |
| Etymology | The species name (aurulae) is a feminine genitive singular noun, from the Latin noun aurula (small wind, breeze) alluding to both its smaller size (compared with sympatric Copeoglossum aurae sp. nov.) and its distribution on the Windward Islands: the southern Lesser Antilles, sometimes including Trinidad and Tobago (see Etymology of C. aurae sp. nov. for further comments on the term "windward"). The first part of the common name (Lesser Windward Skink) refers to the smaller body size of this species, compared with C. aurae sp. nov. (Greater Windward Skink), described above. |
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