Mabuya rugifera

Taxobox | name = Nicobar Island Skink
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Reptilia
ordo = Squamata
subordo = Sauria
familia = Scincidae
genus = "Mabuya"
species = "M. rugifera"
binomial = "Mabuya rugifera"
binomial_authority = (Stoliczka, 1870)

Nicobar Island Skink, "Mabuya rugifera", is a species of skink.

Description

Snout short, obtuse. Lower eyelid scaly. Nostril behind vertical of suture between rostral and first labial; no postnasal; anterior loreal not deeper but much smaller than second; frontonasal broader than long, largely in contact with the rostral and with the frontal: the latter shield longer than the frontoparietals and interparietal together, in contact with the first and second supraoculars; 4 supraoculars, second largest; 6 supraciliaries, first largest; fronto-parietals distinct, larger than the interparietal; a pair of nuchals; 5 (or 4) labials anterior to the subocular, which is large and not narrower below. Ear-opening very small, oval, horizontal, with projecting granules round its border. Dorsal, nuchal, and lateral scales very strongly quinquecarinate; 26 scales round the body, of which 8 or 10 are smooth. The hind limb reaches the elbow of the adpressed fore limb. Subdigital lamellae smooth. Scales on upper surface of tibia bicarinate. Tail 1.6 times the length of head and body. Dark olive-brown above, greenish-white inferiorly. From snout to vent 2-5 inches ; tail 4.5. [Boulenger, G. A. 1890. Fauna of British India. Reptilia and Batrachia.]

Distribution

India, S Thailand, Yala, Satun,West Malaysia (Perak, Pahang, Selangor), Singapore,Indonesia (Borneo, Sumatra, Pulau Nias, Mentawai Islands, Java)

Notes

References

* Greer,A.E. & Nussbaum,R.A. 2000 New character useful in the systematics of the scincid lizard genus Mabuya. Copeia 2000 (2): 615-618
* Stoliczka, F. 1870 Observations on some Indian and Malayan Amphibia and Reptilia. J. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, Calcutta, 39:134-228.
* Stoliczka, F. 1870 Observations of some Indian and Malayan Amphibia and Reptilia. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (4) 6: 105-109

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