Trachylepis dumasi (NUSSBAUM & RAXWORTHY, 1995)
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Trachylepis dumasi
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| Higher Taxa | Scincidae, Mabuyinae (Mabuyini), Scincoidea, Sauria, Squamata (lizards) |
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| Synonym | Mabuya dumasi NUSSBAUM & RAXWORTHY 1995 Mabuya dumasi — GREER & NUSSBAUM 2000 Euprepis dumasi — MAUSFELD & SCHMITZ 2003 Trachylepis dumasi — BAUER 2003 Trachylepis cf. dumasi — BORA et al. 2010 |
| Distribution | Madagascar Type locality: 0.5 km ENE Amboanemba (river crossing 11 linear km S Tranomaro), 24°40' 40"S, 46°27'00" E, 280 m elevation, Amboasary Fivondronana, Toliara (Tulear) Province, Madagascar |
| Reproduction | oviparous (phylogenetic imputation, fide Zimin et al. 2022) |
| Types | Holotype: UMMZ 203663. |
| Diagnosis | Diagnosis: A Mabuya with lower eyelid undivided and bearing a large transparent disk; subocular rectangular, not narrowed below by intrusion of adjacent anterior supralabial; scales of soles not spinose; subdigital scales acarinate; dorsum and dorsolateral surfaces of body and tail brown without longitudinal stripes and large white spots, but with scattered, tiny black spots confined to individual scales; dorsum of head and neck also brown without large white spots and stripes, but with a few tiny black spots; a row of 5 to 7 prominent white spots along each side of neck beginning just below eye, extending posteriorly across ear opening, and ending above forelimb, white spots fused into white line in places; wide, dark brown to black, dorsolateral stripe on neck above and coextensive with row of white spots. Mabuya dumasidiffers from M. elegans, M. gravenhorsti,and M. madagascariensis by having a rectangular subocular (trapezoidal in the latter three species); from M. aureopunctata and M. vato in lacking white spots on the dorsum of the head, neck, and anterior half of the body; further from M. aureopunctata in size, the maximum SVL of the latter is 82 mm, whereas the largest known M. dumasiis 55 mm SVL; and further from M. vato in having a brown rather than a black head and in having a brown body and tail rather than a reddish bronze posterior body and tail; from M. betsileana and M. boettgeriin having the distinctive pattern of white spots on the sides of the head and neck, which are lacking in these two species; and further from M. boettgeriin lacking the longitudinal light and dark stripes on the neck and body of that species. |
| Comment | Syntopy: T. aureopunctata, T. elegans, T. gravenhorsti, and T. vato. |
| Etymology | Named after Philip C. Dumas. |
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