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Mabuya mabouya Bonnaterre 1789

Greater Martinique skink

 

 

Taxonomy & Nomenclature

Synonym/s: see (Hedges & Conn, 2012:111-112)

 

Conservation Status

Missing

Last record: 1889

IUCN RedList status: Critically Endangered (Possibly Extinct)

 

Distribution

Martinique, Martinique Bank, Lesser Antilles

 

Biology & Ecology

 

 

Hypodigm

Neotype: MNHN 5421

 

Media

 

 

References

Original scientific description:

Bonnaterre, P. J. (1789). Tableau encyclopédique et méthodique des trois règnes de la nature. Erpétologie. Panckoucke, Paris, xxviii + 71 pp., 12 plates.

 

Other references:

Hedges, S. Blair and Conn, Caitlin E. (2012). A new skink fauna from Caribbean islands (Squamata, Mabuyidae, Mabuyinae). Zootaxa 3288: 1-244.

Hedges, B. and Powell, R. 2016. Mabuya mabouya. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2016: e.T47102893A47102903. https://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-3.RLTS.T47102893A47102903.en. Downloaded on 17 December 2016.

Hedges, B. & Powell, R. 2016. Mabuya mabouya (errata version published in 2017). The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2016: e.T47102893A115397074. https://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-3.RLTS.T47102893A47102903.en. Accessed on 08 July 2022.

Miralles, Aurélien et al. (2009). Molecular systematics of Caribbean skinks of the genus [i]Mabuya[/i] (Reptilia, Scincidae), with descriptions of two new species from Venezuela. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 156(3): 598-616. [Abstract]

Powell, Robert and Henderson, Robert W. (2012). Island lists of West Indian amphibians and reptiles. Bulletin of the Florida Museum of Natural History 51(2): 85-166. [considers this taxon possibly extinct]

Pregill, Gregory K. (1981). Late Pleistocene herpetofaunas from Puerto Rico. The University of Kansas Museum of Natural History, Miscellaneous Publications, No. 71: 1-72.

Regalado, Pedro Galán. (2015). Los Anfibios y Reptiles Extinguidos: Herpetofauna Desaparecida Desde el Año 1500. Monografías de la Universidade da Coruña 155: 1-509.

http://extinctanimals.proboards.com/thread/16070/mabuya-mabouya-greater-martinique-skink

 

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