Mabuya dissimilis

Taxobox | name = Striped Grass Mabuya
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Reptilia
ordo = Squamata
subordo = Sauria
familia = Scincidae
genus = "Mabuya"
species = "M. dissimilis"
binomial = "Mabuya dissimilis"
binomial_authority = (Hallowell, 1857)

Striped Grass Mabuya "Mabuya dissimilis" is a species of skink found in South Asia.

Description

Snout moderate, obtuse. Lower eyelid with an undivided semi-transparent disk. Nostril behind the vertical of the suture between the rostral and the first labial; no postnasal; anterior loreal in contact with the first labial; supranasals in contact behind the rostral; frontonasal broader than long; prefrontals forming a median suture; frontal in contact with the second supraocular only (exceptionally with the first as well); 4 supraoculars, second largest; 6 supraciliaries ; frontoparietals distinct, usually nearly as long as the frontal, and larger than the interparietal, which entirely separates the parietals; usually no distinct nuchals; 4, seldom 5, labials anterior to the subocular, which is about twice as long as the neighbouring shields and not narrowed below. Ear-opening oval, larger than a lateral scale, smaller than the eye-opening, with 3 or 4 short pointed lobules anteriorly. Dorsal scales strongly bicarinate, nuchals and laterals tricarinate; 34 to 36 scales round the middle of the body, subequal. The adpressed limbs overlap. Toes short; subdigital lamellae smooth. Tail about 2.6 times length of head and body. Olive or brownish above, black-spotted, and with 3 more or less distinct light longitudinal streaks, the vertebral sometimes absent; flanks white-spotted; a short horizontal white streak below the eye; lower surfaces whitish. [Boulenger, G. A. 1890. Fauna of British India. Reptilia and Amphibia.] From snout to vent 3.5 inches; tail 5.5.Plains of Northern India, from Sind to Bengal, also in the "Western Himalayas (Chamba)".

Distribution

India, Pakistan, Nepal, Bangladesh, MyanmarType locality: Bengal

Notes

References

* Blanford, W. T. 1879 Notes on a collection of reptiles made by major O.B. St. John, R.E., at Ajmere in Rajputana. J. Asiat. Soc. Bengal xlviii: 119-127
* Boulenger, G. A. 1887 Catalogue of the Lizards in the British Museum (Nat. Hist.) III. Lacertidae, Gerrhosauridae, Scincidae, Anelytropsidae, Dibamidae, Chamaeleontidae. London: 575pp.
* Das I. 1991 A new species of Mabuya from Tamil Nadu State, Southern India (Squamata: Scincidae). Journal of Herpetology 25 (3): 342-344.
* Fischer, J. G. 1885 Ichthyologische und herpetologische Bemerkungen. V. Herpetologische Bemerkungen. Jb. Hamb. Wiss. Anst. 2: 82-121
* Hallowell,E. 1857 Notice of some new and rare species of Scincidae in the collection of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. Trans. Am. Philos. Soc., Philadelphia, 11: 71-82
* Hora 1927 Rec. Ind. Mus. 29: 2

External links

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* http://itgmv1.fzk.de/www/itg/uetz/herp/library/original/Fischer1885-82.pdf