Mabuya macularia

Taxobox | name = Bronze Mabuya
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Reptilia
ordo = Squamata
subordo = Sauria
familia = Scincidae
genus = "Mabuya"
species = "M. macularia"
binomial = "Mabuya macularia"
binomial_authority = (Blyth, 1853)

Bronze Mabuya "Mabuya macularia" is a species of skink found in Asia.

Description

Snout short, obtusely keeled, acuminate. Louver eyelid scaly. Nostril behind vertical of suture between rostral and first labial; no postnasal; anterior loreal deeper and shorter than second; frontonasal as long as broad or a little broader than long, in contact with the rostral and uMiallv also with the frontal; latter as long as the frontoparietals and interparietal together or a little longer, in contact with the second, or first and second, supraoculars ; 4 supraoculars, second largest; 5 supraciliaries, third longest; frontoparietals distinct, larger than the interparietal, which entirely separates the parietals: a pair of nuchals ; 4, exceptionally 3, labials anterior to the subocular, which is large and not narrowed below. Ear-opening oval, as large as a lateral scale, or a little smaller, with or without a few very indistinct lobules anteriorly. Dorsal, nuchal, and lateral scales with 5 to 7 sharp keels; 26 to 30 scales round the middle of the body, subequal. The adpressed limbs meet or overlap. Digits short; subdigital lamellae smooth. Scales on upper surface of tibia mostly bicannate. Tail 1.25 to 1.75 times the length of head and body. Brown or olive-brown above, sides darker and usually with white black-edged spots; back uniform, or black-spotted, or with one or two black longitudinal lines; sometimes two light lateral lines on each side, well marked only on the neck; lower surfaces yellowish (in spirit). [Boulenger, G. A. 1890. Fauna of British India. Reptilia and Batrachia.] From snout to vent 2.5 inches ; tail 3.6.

Distribution

Pakistan, India, Bhutan, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh ?, Myanmar (= Burma), Thailand, Laos, Cambodia, Vietnam, N West MalaysiaType locality: Rangpur, Bengal [India]

Notes

References

* Annandale, N. 1909 Rec. Ind. Mus. 3: 257
* Blanford,W.T. 1879 Notes on a collection of reptiles and frogs from the neighbourhood of Ellore and Dumagudem. J. Asiat. Soc. Bengal xlviii: 109-116
* Blyth,E. 1854 Notices and descriptions of various reptiles, new or little-known. Part I. J. Asiat. Soc. Bengal 22 [1853] : 639-655
* Das I. 1991 A new species of Mabuya from Tamil Nadu State, Southern India (Squamata: Scincidae). Journal of Herpetology 25 (3): 342-344.
* Mausfeld,P.; Vences, M. Schmitz, A. & Veith, M. 2000 First data on the molecular phylogeography of scincid lizards of the genus Mabuya. Mol. Phylogenet. Evol. 17 (1): 11-14

External links

*
* http://itgmv1.fzk.de/www/itg/uetz/herp/photos/Mabuya_macularia.jpg
* http://itgmv1.fzk.de/www/itg/uetz/herp/photos/Mabuya_macularia2.jpg