Panopa carvalhoi (REBOUCAS-SPIEKER & VANZOLINI, 1990)
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Higher Taxa | Scincidae, Mabuyinae (Mabuyini), Scincoidea, Sauria, Squamata (lizards) |
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Common Names | E: Carvalho's Mabuya Portuguese: Lagarto-Liso |
Synonym | Mabuya carvalhoi REBOUCAS-SPIEKER & VANZOLINI 1990 Mabuya carvalhoi — GREER & NUSSBAUM 2000 Mabuya carvalhoi — MAUSFELD et al. 2002 Mabuya carvalhoi — PIANKA & VITT 2003: 117 Panopa carvalhoi — HEDGES & CONN 2012: 137 |
Distribution | Brazil (Roraima), Venezuela [Molina, 1998]. Type locality: Ilha de Maracá, state of Roraima, Brazil |
Reproduction | ovovivparous |
Types | Holotype: MZUSP 66679 |
Diagnosis | Diagnosis: Mabuya with fused prefrontals and frontoparietals, parietal plates incontact with each other behind the interparietal plate, three to four pairs of nuchals. Four supraciliaries, the first usually the longest. Palms and soles light coloured, but scales on these areas often with a darker margin. Body with six longitudinal dark stripes; two dorsal stripes running from supraoculars scales to the base of the tail where they fuse, two dorsolateral stripes and two lateral stripes. (Miralles et al. 2005) |
Comment | Mabuya carvalhoi resembles M. croizati Horton 1973, from Estado Sucre, Venezuela, in having fused frontoparietals, several pairs of broad nuchals anda light vertebral stripe. It differs from croizati in having the internasals in contact behind the rostral, fused prefrontals, 35-39 ventral scales between the level of the axillae and the anal flap (41-44 in croizati), 23- 27 scales around midbody (28-34), a shorter vertebral light stripe, not reaching the sacrum, and an unspotted belly. Regression analysis of body measurements shows M. croizati to be a stouter form. In live M. carvalhoi the posterior part of the trunk and the tail are blue. M. carvalhoi occurs in forested areas, but not inside the forest, rather in the ecotone. |
Etymology | Named after Brasilian herpetologist Celso Morato de Carvalho, collector of the holotype. |
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