Chioninia spinalis (BOULENGER, 1906)

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Higher Taxa	Scincidae, Mabuyinae (Mabuyini), Scincoidea, Sauria, Squamata (lizards)
Subspecies	Chioninia spinalis spinalis (BOULENGER 1906) Chioninia spinalis boavistensis MIRALLES, VASCONCELOS, PERERA, HARRIS & CARRANZA 2010 Chioninia spinalis maioensis (MERTENS 1955) Chioninia spinalis salensis (ANGEL 1935) Chioninia spinalis santiagoensis MIRALLES, VASCONCELOS, PERERA, HARRIS & CARRANZA 2010
Common Names
Synonym	Mabuya spinalis BOULENGER 1906: 204 Mabuya stangeri spinalis — MERTENS 1955: 10 Mabuya stangeri — SCHLEICH 1984 (fide JOGER 1993) Mabuya stangeri spinalis — SCHLEICH 1987: 30 Mabuya spinalis — GREER et al. 2000 Chioninia spinalis — MAUSFELD et al. 2002 Mabuya spinalis — HERMANN et al. 2003 Chioninia spinalis boavistensis MIRALLES, VASCONCELOS, PERERA, HARRIS & CARRANZA 2010 Chioninia spinosa boavistensis — BRETZEL 2018 [in error] Chioninia spinalis maioensis (MERTENS 1955) Mabuya stangeri maioensis MERTENS 1955: 11 Mabuya stangeri maioensis — SCHLEICH 1987: 26 Chioninia spinalis maioensis — VASCONCELOS et al. 2013 Chioninia spinalis salensis (ANGEL 1935) Mabuia salensis ANGEL 1935: 168 Mabuya stangeri salensis — MERTENS 1955: 11 (part.) Mabuya stangeri salensis — SCHLEICH 1982 (part.) Mabuia salensis — BRYGOO 1985 Mabuya stangeri salensis — SCHLEICH 1987: 28 (part.) Mabuya salensis — BREHM et al. 2001 Mabuya spinalis salensis — MAUSFELD et al. 2002 Chioninia spinalis salensis — KÖHLER et al. 2007 Chioninia spinalis salensis — MIRALLES et al. 2010 Chioninia spinalis salensis — VASCONCELOS et al. 2013 Chioninia spinalis santiagoensis MIRALLES et al. 2010 Chioninia spinalis santiagoensis — VASCONCELOS et al. 2013
Distribution	Cape Verde Islands (Sal Island) boavistensis: Cape Verde Islands (Boavista); Type locality: Sal Rei, Boavista, Cape Verde Islands. maioensis: Cape Verde Islands (Maio); Type locality: “Maio, Kapverden” spinalis: Type locality: “Igreya und S. Filippe, Fogo, Kapverden” fide Mertens 1955. salensis: Cape Verde Islands (Sal); Type locality: “Ile Sal” santiagoensis: Cape Verde Islands (Santiago); Type locality: Ilhéu, Santa Maria, off Praia, Santiago, Cape Verde Is.,
Reproduction	ovovivparous
Types	Lectotype: BMNH 1906.3.30.40, Igreja, Fogo, Cape Verde Is., collected L. Fea. Designation by Miralles et al. (2010). Paralectotype: MSNG 28168. Holotype: BMNH 2000-44, Unsexed adult, Mateo & Geniez (1997) [boavistensis] Holotype: MZH (Zoological Museum, University of Helsinki), given as Naturhistoriska Museet, Helsingfors, number unknown, Maio, Cape Verde Is., collected Panelius, 3.ii.1954 [maioensis] Holotype: MNHN-RA 1935.0197 (by original designation); paratype: MNHN-RA 1935.0198, Île de Sal, Cape Verde Is., collected Chevalier, 1934 [salensis] Holotype: BMNH 2000- 37, Adult female, Mateo & Geniez (1997). Paratypes: BMNH 2000-35, 36, 38; ULPGC (also as DBULPGC) 115; MZB 2010-0979, 2010-0962 to MZB [santiagoensis]
Diagnosis
Comment	Mabuya spinalis has been considered as a synonym of Mabuya stangeri (Gray 1845). JOGER 1993 reassigned species status to M. spinalis.
References	Angel, F. 1935. Lézards des iles du Cap Vert, rapportés par M. le Professeur Chevalier. Description de deux espècies nouvelles. Bulletin du Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle, Paris, 7:165—169 Boulenger, G.A. 1906. Report on the reptiles collected by the late L. Fea in West Africa. Ann. Mus. civ. Stor. Nat. Genova (3) 2: 196-216 - get paper here Brehm, A.; J. Jesus; M. Pinheiro and D. J. Harris 2001. Relationships of Scincid Lizards (Mabuya spp; Reptilia: Scincidae) from the Cape Verde Islands Based on Mitochondrial and Nuclear DNA Sequences. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 19 (2): 311–316 - get paper here Bretzel, Joachim 2018. Die Kapverden – ein herpetologischer Reisebericht. Terraria-Elaphe 2018 (6): 48-58 - get paper here Capocaccia, L. 1961. Catalogo dei tipi di Rettili del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Genova [MSNG]. Ann. Mus. Civ. Stor. Nat. Giacomo Doria 72: 86-111 - get paper here Greer, A.E., Arnold, C. & Arnold, E.N. 2000. The systematic significance of the number of presacral vertebrae in the scincid lizard genus Mabuya. Amphibia-Reptilia 21 (1): 121-126 - get paper here Herrmann, R.; Siegel, A.; Barts, M. 2003. Herpetologische Beobachtungen auf der Kapverden-Insel Boavista. Sauria 25 (2): 17-21 (Erratum in 25 [3]: 20) - get paper here Joger U 1993. On two collections of reptiles and amphibians from the Cape Verde Islands, with descriptions of three new taxa. COURIER FORSCHUNGSINSTITUT SENCKENBERG 159: 437-444 Köhler, G.; Hertz, A.; Sunyer, J.; Seipp, R. & Monteiro, A. 2007. Herpetologische Forschungen auf den Kapverden unter besonderer Berücksichtigung des Kapverdischen Riesenskinks, Macroscincus coctei. Elaphe 15 (4): 62-66 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 Mertens, R. 1955. Die Eidechsen der Kapverden. Soc. Sci. fenn. Comment. biol. 15: 1-16 Miralles, A.; Vasconcelos, R.; Perera, A.; Harris, D.J. & Carranza, S. 2010. An integrative taxonomic revision of the Cape Verdean skinks (Squamata, Scincidae). Zoologica Scripta 40: 16-44 [2011], DOI: 10.1111/j.1463-6409.2010.00453.x - get paper here
External links	IUCN Red List National Center for Biotechnology Information http://www.morphobank.org/index.php?action=download_media&media_id=52289 http://www.morphobank.org/index.php?action=download_media&media_id=52292 http://www.arod.com.au/arod/reptilia/Squamata/Scincidae/Ctenotus/agrestis Google images

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