Panopa croizati (HORTON, 1973)

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Higher Taxa	Scincidae, Mabuyinae (Mabuyini), Scincoidea, Sauria, Squamata (lizards)
Subspecies
Common Names	E: Horton's Mabuya
Synonym	Mabuya croizati HORTON 1973 Mabuya croizati — MAUSFELD et al. 2002 Mabuya croizati — MIRALLES et al. 2009 Panopa croizati — HEDGES & CONN 2012: 137
Distribution	NE Venezuela (Antzoategui, Sucre: endemic to the Turimiquire Massif), Bazil (Sao Paulo) Type locality: Venezuela, Sucre, Mt. Tutumiquire
Reproduction	ovovivparous
Types	Holotype: AMNH 29314
Diagnosis	Diagnosis (genus). Species in this genus are characterized by (1) frontoparietals, one, (2) supraciliaries, 4–6, (3) supraoculars, four, (4) prefrontal contact, present (a single, fused prefrontal), (5) parietal contact, present, (6) rows of nuchals, usually 3–5, (7) dorsals + ventrals, 115–126, (8) total lamellae, 191–209, (9) a dark middorsal stripe, absent, (10) dark dorsolateral stripes, present, (11) a dark lateral stripe, present, and (12) dark ventral striping, absent. They are intermediately sized, with a range of maximum body sizes among the species of 69–76 mm SVL (Table 2).
Comment	Type Species: Mabuya croizati Horton, 1973:75 is the type species of the genus Panopa HEDGES & CONN 2012. Behavior: diurnal Habitat: rock-dwelling and heliophylous
Etymology	Named after Leon Croizat (1894-1982), a botanist, biogeographer, and evolutionist born in Turin. He emigrated to the USA (1923) and later to moved to Caracas, Venezuela (1947-1952). The generic name (Panopa) is a feminine noun and is derived from the Greek adjective pan (whole, undivided) and noun lopas (flat plate), in allusion to the single (fused) frontoparietal scale.
References	Beolens, Bo; Michael Watkins, and Michael Grayson 2011. The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, USA - 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 Horton, D.R. 1973. A new species of Mabuya (Lacertilia: Scincidae) from Venezuela. Journal of Herpetology 7 (2): 75-77 - get paper here MANZANILLA, J., D. SÁNCHEZ, I. MARTÍNEZ-SOLANO, D. BUCKLEY & L. DE SOUSA 2006. Historia natural, notas taxonómicas y estado de conservación de Mabuya croizati Horton, 1973 (Reptilia: Scincidae). Natural history, taxonomic notes and conservation status of Mabuya croizati Horton, 1973 (Reptilia: Scincidae). Herpetotropicos 3 (1): 41-50 - 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 Miralles, A.; Chaparro, J.C. & Harvey, M.B. 2009. Three rare and enigmatic South American skinks. Zootaxa 2012: 47–68 - get paper here Miralles, A.; Rivas Fuenmayor, G. & Barrio-Amoros, C.L. 2005. Taxonomy of the genus Mabuya (Reptilia, Squamata, Scincidae) inVenezuela. Zoosystema 27 (4): 825-837 Miralles, A.; S. Carranza 2010. Systematics and biogeography of the Neotropical genus Mabuya, with special emphasis on the Amazonian skink Mabuya nigropunctata (Reptilia, Scincidae). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 54 (3): 857-869 - get paper here Miralles, Aurélien 2006. A new species of Mabuya (Reptilia, Squamata, Scincidae) from the Caribbean Island of San Andrés, with a new interpretation of nuchal scales: a character of taxonomic importance. The Herpetological Journal 16 (1):1-7. - 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 Reboucas-Spieker R. VANZOLINI P E. 1990. Mabuya carvalhoi, expecies nova do estado de Roraima, Brasil (SAURIA SCINCIDAE). REVISTA BRASILEIRA DE BIOLOGIA 50, (2): 377- 386 Rivas, G. A., Lasso-Alcalá, O. M., Rodríguez-Olarte, D., De Freitas, M., Murphy, J. C., Pizzigalli, C., ... & Jowers, M. J. 2021. Biogeographical patterns of amphibians and reptiles in the northernmost coastal montane complex of South America. Plos one, 16(3): e0246829 - 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 Rodrigues, Miguel Trefaut 2000. A new species of Mabuya (Squamata: Scincidae) from the semiarid Caatingas of northeastern Brazil. Papéis Avulsos de Zoologia 41(21):313-328 - get paper here
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