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unusual facts about ''Mabuya''


Heathi

Mabuya heathi, Schmidt & Inger, 1951, the Brazilian mabuya, a skink species in the genus Mabuya


Mabuya maculata

Mabuya maculata is an obsolete name for the skink Trachylepis maculata.

Oceanic dispersal

Similarly, skinks of the related genera Mabuya and Trachylepis apparently both floated across the Atlantic from Africa to South America and Fernando de Noronha, respectively, during the last 9 Ma.

Placentation

Most reptiles exhibit strict epitheliochorial placentation (e.g. Pseudemoia entrecasteauxii) however at least two examples of endotheliochorial placentation have been identified (Mabuya sp. and Trachylepis ivensi).

Rainbow skink

Trachylepis quinquetaeniata from Africa, otherwise known as Five-lined Mabuya

Trachylepis tschudii

Writing in 1946, H. Travassos considered Tschudi's punctata to be identical to the Noronha skink (then known as Mabuya punctata), a species otherwise known only from Fernando de Noronha, a small archipelago off northeastern Brazil.


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