Orosaura nebulosylvestris (MIRALLES, RIVAS, BONILLO, SCHARGEL, BARROS, GARCÍA-PEREZ & BARRIO-AMORÓS, 2009)

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Higher Taxa	Scincidae, Mabuyinae (Mabuyini), Scincoidea, Sauria, Squamata (lizards)
Subspecies
Common Names	E: Venezuelan Mountain Skink S: Lisa
Synonym	Mabuya nebulosylvestris MIRALLES, FUENMAYOR, BONILLO, SCHARGEL, BARROS, GARCÍA-PEREZ & BARRIO-AMORÓS 2009 Orosaura nebulosylvestris — HEDGES & CONN 2012
Distribution	Venezuela (highlands of the coastal range and the Andean Cordillera of Mérida) Type locality: Hotel Casa de Campo Tovar (10°24′35″N, 67°17′27″W), 1.5 km from Colonia Tovar, Pico Codazzi, Vargas state, Venezuela.
Reproduction	viviparous (not imputed, fide Zimin et al. 2022)
Types	Holotype: MHNLS 17093. An adult male with extruded hemipenis; collected on 5 May 2005 by G. Rivas, A. Miralles, and O. Lasso-Alcalá.
Diagnosis	Diagnosis in Miralles et al. 2009.
Comment	Type Species: Mabuya nebulosylvestris Miralles et al., 2009:603 is the type species of the genus Orosaura HEDGES & CONN 2012.
Etymology	Named after the nebula forests (Latin silva) which this species inhabits. The generic name (Orosaura) is a feminine noun derived from the Greek oro (mountain) and saura (lizard), referring to the distribution of the genus in the mountains of northern Venezuela.
References	Carvajal-Cogollo, J.E.; L.E. Rojas-Murcia. & G. Cárdenas-Arévalo 2020. Reptiles del Caribe colombiano/ Reptiles of the Colombian Caribbean. Tunja: Editorial UPTC, 268 pp. - get paper here Hedges, S.B. & Conn, C.E. 2012. A new skink fauna from Caribbean islands (Squamata, Mabuyidae, Mabuyinae). Zootaxa 3288: 1–244 - get paper here MIRALLES, AURÉLIEN; GILSON RIVAS FUENMAYOR, CÉLINE BONILLO, WALTER E. SCHARGEL, TITO BARROS, JUAN E. GARCÍA-PEREZ, CÉSAR L. BARRIO-AMORÓS 2009. Molecular systematics of Caribbean skinks of the genus Mabuya (Reptilia, Scincidae), with descriptions of two new species from Venezuela. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 156 (3): 598-616 - get paper here RIVAS, GILSON A.; CÉSAR R. MOLINA, GABRIEL N. UGUETO, TITO R. BARROS, CÉSAR L. BAR- RIO-AMORÓS & PHILIPPE J. R. KOK 2012. Reptiles of Venezuela: an updated and commented checklist. Zootaxa 3211: 1–64 - get paper here Señaris, J. Celsa; María Matilde Aristeguieta Padrón, Haidy Rojas Gil y Fernando J. M. Rojas-Runjaic 2018. Guía ilustrada de los anfibios y reptiles del valle de Caracas, Venezuela. Ediciones IVIC, Instituto Venezolano de Investigaciones Científicas (IVIC). Caracas, Venezuela. 348 pp. 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
External links	IUCN Red List National Center for Biotechnology Information http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/122485020/abstract http://www.chelonia.org/psammobates_gallery.htm Google images

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