Spondylurus monitae HEDGES & CONN, 2012
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Spondylurus monitae
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| Higher Taxa | Scincidae, Mabuyinae (Mabuyini), Scincoidea, Sauria, Squamata (lizards) |
| Subspecies | |
| Common Names | E: Monito Skink |
| Synonym | Spondylurus monitae HEDGES & CONN 2012: 182 Mabuya mabouya sloanii — ROLLE et al. 1964: 322 (part) Mabuya mabouya sloanei — SCHWARTZ & THOMAS 1975: 141 (part) Mabuya mabouya sloanei — MACLEAN et al. 1977: 27 (part) Mabuya mabouya sloanei — HEATWOLE et al. 1981: 34 (part) Mabuya mabouya sloanei — SCHWARTZ & HENDERSON 1988: 151 (part) Mabuya mabouya sloanei — SCHWARTZ & HENDERSON 1991: 457 (part) Mabuya bistriata — POWELL et al. 1996: 82 (part) Mabuya sloanii — HENDERSON & POWELL 2009: 293 (part) |
| Distribution | Puerto Rico (Isla Monito) Type locality: Isla Monito, Puerto Rico |
| Reproduction | viviparous (phylogenetic imputation, fide Zimin et al. 2022) |
| Types | Holotype: USNM 576301, an adult female, collected on Isla Monito, Puerto Rico, United States, 12–13 February 1993, by Manuel Leal and Richard Thomas. Field tag USNMFS 192877. Paratypes (n = 6). Isla Monito, Puerto Rico. RT 11377–79, 11427, Manuel Leal and Richard Thomas, 3–4 April 1993; RT 11391, Miguel Garcia, Manuel Leal, and Richard Thomas, 13–14 April 1993; and RT 11430, Richard Thomas, November 1993. |
| Diagnosis | Diagnosis: Spondylurus monitae sp. nov. is characterized by (1) maximum SVL in males, 90.3 mm; (2) maximum SVL in females, 94.5 mm; (3) snout width, 2.42–3.16% SVL; (4) head length, 16.2–17.8% SVL; (5) head width, 11.5–13.8% SVL; (6) ear length, 1.35–1.59% SVL; (7) toe-IV length, 8.34–10.7% SVL; (8) prefrontals, two; (9) supraoculars, three (43%), four (57%); (10) supraciliaries, three (29%), four (43%), five (29%); (11) frontoparietals, two; (12) supralabial below the eye, five; (13) nuchal rows, two; (14) dorsals, 62–64; (15) ventrals, 64–69; (16) dorsals + ventrals, 126–132; (17) midbody scale rows, 32–34; (18) finger-IV lamellae, 12–15; (19) toe-IV lamellae, 16–17; (20) finger-IV + toe-IV lamellae, 29–32; (21) supranasal contact, N; (22) prefrontal contact, N; (23) supraocular-1/frontal contact, Y (86%), N (14%); (24) parietal contact, Y; (25) pale middorsal stripe, Y; (26) dark dorsolateral stripe, Y; (27) dark lateral stripe, Y; (28) pale lateral stripe, Y; and (29) palms and soles, pale (Tables 3–5). |
| Comment | Synonymy: Pinto-Sánchez et al. 2015 synonymized culebrae, macleani, and monitae with Spondylurus sloani, which was rejected by McCranie et al. 2020. Abundance: only known from the type locality (Meiri et al. 2017). |
| Etymology | The species name (monitae) is a feminine genitive singular noun referring to the distribution of the species on the island of Monito (it is feminine despite the masculine diminutive Spanish island name). |
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