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Higher TaxaScincidae, Mabuyinae (Mabuyini), Scincoidea, Sauria, Squamata (lizards)
Subspecies 
Common NamesE: Cochons Skink 
SynonymMabuya cochonae HEDGES & CONN 2012: 87
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)
Mabuya cochonae — HEDGES et al. 2019 
DistributionGuadeloupe

Type locality: Îlet à Cochons, Guadeloupe  
Reproduction 
TypesHolotype: KU 242043, an adult male, collected by Albert Schwartz and Richard Thomas on Îlet à Cochons, Guadeloupe, on 30 January–3 February 1963. Paratype (n = 1). Guadeloupe. KU 242044, an adult female, same locality and information as the holotype. 
DiagnosisDiagnosis: Mabuya cochonae sp. nov. is characterized by (1) maximum SVL in males, 96.7 mm; (2) maximum SVL in females, 98 mm; (3) snout width, 2.68–2.78% SVL; (4) head length, 18.7–19.1% SVL; (5) head width, 12.8–13.1% SVL; (6) ear length, 1.02–1.12% SVL; (7) toe-IV length, 11.1–11.6% SVL; (8) prefrontals, two; (9) supraoculars, three; (10) supraciliaries, four; (11) frontoparietals, two; (12) supralabial below the eye, five; (13) nuchal rows, one; (14) dorsals, 58–62; (15) ventrals, 70; (16) dorsals + ventrals, 128–132; (17) midbody scale rows, 32; (18) finger-IV lamellae, 12–14; (19) toe-IV lamellae, 17; (20) finger-IV + toe-IV lamellae, 29–31; (21) supranasal contact, Y; (22) prefrontal contact, N; (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).


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CommentConservation: extremely rare and possibly extinct. No living individual of any of these species has been seen in recent decades (Hedges et al. 2016).

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). 
EtymologyThe species name (cochonae) is a feminine genitive singular noun, referring to the distribution of the species on Îlet à Cochons. 
References
  • Hedges SB, Lorvelec O, Barré N, Vidal N, Pavis C. 2019. On the taxonomic recognition of skinks from the Guadeloupe Archipelago (Squamata Mabuyidae, Mabuya). Caribbean Herpetology 64:1–7 - 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
  • 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
  • Miralles A, Gomes R, Angin B, Ibene B 2017. Étude systématique des scinques Mabuya de l’archipel guadloupéen (Squamata, Scincidae). Bulletin de la Société Herpétologique de France, 163, 67–84
  • Thorpe, R.S. 2022. Reptiles of the Lesser Antilles. Chimaira, Frankfurt, 608 pp. - get paper here
 
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