Bronze 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. macularia
Binomial name
Mabuya macularia (Blyth, 1853)

Bronze Mabuya Mabuya macularia is a species of skink found in Asia. Edward Blyth ( December 23, 1810 - December 27, 1873) was an English zoologist and pharmacist In Biology, a species is one of the basic units of Biological classification and a Taxonomic rank. Skinks are the most diverse group of Lizards They make the family Scincidae which shares the superfamily or infraorder Scincomorpha with several other

Contents 1 Description 2 Distribution 3 Notes 4 References 5 External links

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). ^[1] 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 Malaysia Type 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

• Mabuya macularia at the TIGR Reptile Database
• http://itgmv1.fzk.de/www/itg/uetz/herp/photos/Mabuya_macularia.jpg
• http://itgmv1.fzk.de/www/itg/uetz/herp/photos/Mabuya_macularia2.jpg

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