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Beddome's Mabuya
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Squamata
Suborder: Sauria
Family: Scincidae
Genus: Mabuya
Species: M. Chordates ( Phylum Chordata) are a group of Animals that includes the Vertebrates together with several closely related Invertebrates Reptiles, or members of the class Reptilia are air-breathing Cold-blooded Vertebrates that have skin covered in scales as opposed to hair or feathers Squamata (scaled reptiles is the largest recent order of Reptiles including Lizards and Snakes Members of the order are distinguished by Sauria is a Clade of reptiles that includes all living Diapsids as well as their Common ancestor and all its extinct descendants Skinks are the most diverse group of Lizards They make the family Scincidae which shares the superfamily or infraorder Scincomorpha with several other Mabuya is a Genus of long-tailed Skinks found through Southeast Asia, Africa, and The Americas. beddomii
Binomial name
Mabuya beddomii
(Jerdon, 1870)

Beddome's Mabuya Mabuya beddomii is a species of skink. Thomas Caverhill Jerdon (1811 - 1872 was a British Physician, Zoologist and Botanist. Skinks are the most diverse group of Lizards They make the family Scincidae which shares the superfamily or infraorder Scincomorpha with several other The species is named after Richard Henry Beddome, 1830-1911, British army officer and botanist. Colonel Richard Henry Beddome ( 11 May 1830 - 23 February 1911) was a British military officer in India and a naturalist

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Description

Snout short, obtuse. Lower eyelid scaly. Nostril behind vertical of suture between rostral and first labial; no postnasal; anterior loreal deeper and shorter than the second, in contact with the first labial; supranasals in contact behind the rostral; frontonasal broader than long, sometimes in contact with the frontal; the latter usually as long as, or a little shorter than, the frontoparietals and interparietal together, sometimes not longer than the frontoparietals, in contact with the second, or rarely first and second, supraoculars ; 4 supraoculars, second largest; 6 supraciliaries, first longest; frontoparietals distinct, as long as or longer than the interparietal, which usually entirely separates the parietals; a pair of nuchals; 4 labials anterior to the subocular, which is large and not narrower below. Ear-opening oval, as large as a lateral scale, or a little smaller, with three short pointed lobules anteriorly. Dorsal and nuchal scales with 3 or 5 keels, sometimes very feeble; 30 to 32 scales round the middle of the body, subequal. The adpressed limbs meet or slightly overlap, Subdigital lamellae unicarinate. Scales on upper surface of tibia mostly tricarinate. Tail 1. 6 to 2. 2 times the length of head and body. The coloration varies considerably, but a lateral black band, edged above and below with a whitish streak, is constant. Some (young) specimens black above, with seven light longitudinal lines ; others olive-brown with four black dorsal streaks, which may not extend further back than the nape; or a light black-edged vertebral band may be present; head-shields spotted or variegated with black; limbs and tail rufous; lower surfaces white. [1] From snout to vent 2. 2 inches; tail 4. 75.

Distribution

Southern India, Salem, Tinnevelly, Malabar, Mysore, &c. , the most northern locality known being S. E Berar. Type locality: Mysore

Notes

  1. ^ Boulenger, G. A. 1890 The Fauna of British India. Reptilia and Ampbhibia.

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