Vaillant's mabuya

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Chioninia vaillantii
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Vaillant's skink in the Prague Zoo
Scientific classification edit
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Squamata
Family: Scincidae
Genus: Chioninia
Species:
C. vaillantii
Binomial name
Chioninia vaillantii
(Boulenger, 1887)
Synonyms[2]
  • Mabuia vaillantii
    Boulenger, 1887
  • Mabuya vaillantii
    — Greer, 1976
  • Chioninia vaillantii
    — et al., 2002

Chioninia vaillantii, also known commonly as Vaillant's mabuya or Vaillant's skink, is a species of skink in the family Scincidae. The species is endemic to the Cape Verde Islands.[2] There are two recognized subspecies.

Conservation status[]

C. vaillantii is listed as endangered by the IUCN because the species occurs as a very fragmented population, and the quality of its habitat is declining.[1]

Geographic range[]

Vaillant's mabuya occurs on the islands Fogo and Santiago, and the islet Ilhéu de Cima.[1]

Habitat[]

The preferred natural habitat of C. vaillantii is shrubland.[1]

Reproduction[]

C. vaillantii is viviparous.[2]

Subspecies[]

Two subspecies are recognized as being valid including the nominotypical subspecies.

  • Chioninia vaillantii vaillantii (Boulenger, 1887)
  • Chioninia vaillantii xanthotis Miralles, , , & , 2010

Nota bene: A trinomial authority in parentheses indicates that the subspecies was originally described in a genus other than Chioninia.

Etymology[]

The specific name, vaillantii, is in honor of French herpetologist Léon Louis Vaillant.[3]

References[]

  1. ^ a b c d Vasconcelos, R. (2013). "Chioninia vaillantii". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2013: e.T178352A19086055. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2013-1.RLTS.T178352A19086055.en. Retrieved 11 November 2021.
  2. ^ a b c Chioninia vaillantii at the Reptarium.cz Reptile Database. Accessed 31 January 2017.
  3. ^ Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. ISBN 978-1-4214-0135-5. (Mabuya vaillantii, p. 271).

Further reading[]

  • Boulenger GA (1887). Catalogue of the Lizards in the British Museum (Natural History). Second Edition. Volume III ... Scincidæ ... London: Trustees of the British Museum (Natural History). (Taylor and Francis, printers). xii + 575 pp. + Plates I–XL. (Mabuia vaillantii, new species, pp. 159–160 + Plate VII).
  • , Schmitz A, Böhme W, , , (2002). "Phylogenetic Affinities of Mabuya atlantica Schmidt, 1945, Endemic to the Atlantic Ocean Archipelago of Fernando de Noronha (Brazil): Necessity of Partitioning the Genus Mabuya Fitzinger, 1826 (Scincidae: Lygosominae)". Zoologischer Anzeiger 241 (3): 281–293. (Chioninia vaillantii, new combination).
  • Miralles A, , , , (2010). "An integrated taxonomic revision of the Cape Verdean skinks (Squamata, Scincidae)". Zoologica Scripta 40 (1): 16–44. (Chioninia vaillantii xanthotis, new subspecies).


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