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Spondylurus macleani (MAYER & LAZELL, 2000)

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Higher TaxaScincidae, Mabuyinae (Mabuyini), Scincoidea, Sauria, Squamata (lizards)
Subspecies 
Common NamesE: Slippery Back (local name), Carrot Rock Skink 
SynonymMabuya macleani MAYER & LAZELL 2000
Mabuya mabouya sloani — CAREY 1972
Mabuya mabouya sloanii — MAYER & LAZELL 1988: 23 (part.)
Mabuya bistriata — POWELL et al. 1996:82 (part)
Mabuya macleani — MAUSFELD et al. 2002
Spondylurus macleani — HEDGES & CONN 2012: 167 
DistributionCarrot Rock, British Virgin Islands

Type locality: Carrot Rock, British Virgin Islands, 18° 19’ 45” N, 64° 34’ 18” W  
Reproductionovovivparous 
TypesHolotype: MCZ 170884 
DiagnosisDiagnosis. A pallid tan to brownish gray New World Mabuya (Dunn 1936, Greer 1970) with one or two pairs of enlarged nuchals (their combined widths more than 75 percent of the width of the parietals); two frontoparietals; parietal overlapping upper anterior temporal (Greer & Nussbaum 2000); midbody scales in 32-34 rows; 16-18 subdigital lamellae under fourth toe of pes; limbs moderately long; dark dorsal markings fragmented or absent on head and separated from dark dorsolateral stripes on nape; nape stripes reduced, separated by all or most of two dorsal scales and not extending more than 21 dorsal scales posterior to parietals; lateral dark stripes poorly developed. Mabuya macleani is distinguished from the geographically nearest populations of M. sloanii by the much reduced dorsolateral dark stripe, the continuous stripe beginning behind the head in M. macleani (on the head in M. sloanii), and extending only to the level of the forelimbs (behind the forelimbs in M. sloanii).


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CommentSynonymy: Pinto-Sánchez et al. 2015 synonymized culebrae, macleani, and monitae with Spondylurus sloani, which is rejected by McCranie et al. 2020.

Pallid, drab, almost patternless skink. Closely related to M. sloanii.

Abundance: only known from the type locality (Meiri et al. 2017). 
EtymologyThe species (macleani) was named in honor of William P. MacLean III (1943–1991) for his contributions to the herpetology of the Virgin Islands (Mayer & Lazell 2000). 
References
  • Beolens, Bo; Michael Watkins, and Michael Grayson 2011. The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, USA - get paper here
  • Carey, W.M. 1972. The Herpetology of Anegada, British Virgin Islands. Carib. J. Sci. 12(1/2): 79-89.
  • Hedges, S.B. & Conn, C.E. 2012. A new skink fauna from Caribbean islands (Squamata, Mabuyidae, Mabuyinae). Zootaxa 3288: 1–244 - get paper here
  • Mausfeld, Patrick; Andreas SCHMITZ; Wolfgang BÖHME; Bernhard MISOF; Davor VRCIBRADIC; Carlos Frederico Duarte ROCHA 2002. Phylogenetic Affinities of Mabuya atlantica Schmidt, 1945, Endemic to the Atlantic Ocean Archipelago of Fernando de Noronha (Brazil): Necessity of Partitioning the Genus Mabuya Fitzinger, 1826 (Scincidae: Lygosominae). Zool. Anz. 241: 281–293 - get paper here
  • Mayer, G.C. & Lazell, J. 2000. A new species of Mabuya (Sauria: Scincidae) from the British Virgin Islands. Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington 113 (4): 871-886 - get paper here
  • MCCRANIE, JAMES R.; AMY J. MATTHEWS, S. BLAIR HEDGES 2020. A morphological and molecular revision of lizards of the genus Marisora Hedges & Conn (Squamata: Mabuyidae) from Central America and Mexico, with descriptions of four new species. Zootaxa 4763 (3): 301–353 - get paper here
  • Meiri, Shai; Aaron M. Bauer, Allen Allison, Fernando Castro-Herrera, Laurent Chirio, Guarino Colli, Indraneil Das, Tiffany M. Doan, Frank Glaw, Lee L. Grismer, Marinus Hoogmoed, Fred Kraus, Matthew LeBreton, Danny Meirte, Zoltán T. Nagy, Cristiano d 2017. Extinct, obscure or imaginary: the lizard species with the smallest ranges. Diversity and Distributions - get paper here
  • Pinto-Sánchez, Nelsy Rocío; Martha L. Calderón-Espinosa, Aurelien Miralles, Andrew J. Crawford, Martha Patricia Ramírez-Pinilla 2015. Molecular phylogenetics and biogeography of the Neotropical skink genus Mabuya Fitzinger (Squamata: Scincidae) with emphasis on Colombian populations. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2015.07.016 - get paper here
 
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