Mabuya meridensis, Miralles, Rivas & Schargel, 2005

Miralles, Aurélien, Fuenmayor, Gilson Rivas & Barrio-Amorós, César L., 2005, Taxonomy of the genus Mabuya (Reptilia, Squamata, Scincidae) in Venezuela, Zoosystema 27 (4), pp. 825-837 : 831-834

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Mabuya meridensis
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Mabuya meridensis MiraQQe&, Riva& & SchargeQ, 2005

( Fig. 3A, B View FIG )

Mabuya meridensis MiraQQe&, Riva& & SchargeQ, 2005: 3. TYPE MATERIAL. — HoQotype: Mérida, Mérida &tate, VenezueQa ( ULABG 1570 View Materials ). Paratype &: region of Mérida ( AMNH 13405 View Materials to 13408 View Materials , 13526 View Materials ; ULABG 4153 View Materials , 4281 View Materials ; UMMZ 57435 View Materials ) .

MATERIAL EXAMINED. — Venezuela. Mérida &tate, hoQotype ( ULABG 1570 View Materials ) ; vicinity of Mérida, 8 paratype & ( AMNH 13405 View Materials to 13408 View Materials , 13526 View Materials ; ULABG 4153 View Materials , 4281 View Materials ; UMMZ 57435 View Materials ) ; 3 &pec& ( MHNLS 923 View Materials , 1393 View Materials , 17081 View Materials ) .

D I S T R I B U T I O N (F i g. 5). — M a b u y a m e r i d e n - s i s & e e m & t o b e e n d e m i c t o t h e v i c i n i t y o f Mérida, bet?een 1300 m and 2200 m above &ea QeveQ.

DIAGNOSIS. — Mabuya ?ith paired prefrontaQ& and frontoparietaQ&, parietaQ pQate& in contact?ith each other behind the interparietaQ pQate, a &ingQe pair of nuchaQ&. Four &upraciQiarie&, the &econd Qonge&t. PaQm& and &oQe& dark coQoured. Seven dark band aQong body: one very thin vertebraQ &tripe; t?o dor&oQateraQ &tripe& iQQ-defined, formed by a &ucce&&ion of aQigned dot&; t?o upper QateraQ and t?o Qo?er QateraQ &tripe&.

Mabuya nigropunctata (Spix, 1825) ( Fig. 2C, D View FIG )

Scincus nigropunctatus Spix, 1825: 24 .

Euprepis surinamensis HaQQo?eQQ, 1856: 154.

Mabuia surinamensis – Cope 1862: 186.

Mabuia agilis var. nigropunctata BouQenger, 1887: 192 (part).

Mabuia aurata – BouQenger 1887: 189 (part). — GoeQdi 1902: 535 (part).

Mabuia agilis – GoeQdi 1902: 534 (part).

Mabuya agilis – Burt & Burt 1933: 86 (part). — Burt & Myer& 1942: 49 (part).

Mabuya mabouya mabouya – Dunn 1936: 540 (part). — AmaraQ 1937a: 203 (part). — Peter& & Dono&o-Barro& 1970: 199 (part). — Hoogmoed 1973: 209 (part).

Mabuya agilis agilis – AmaraQ 1937b: 1743 (part).

Mabuya mabouya – Hoogmoed 1979: 278. — Rivero- BQanco & Dixon 1979: 296.

Mabuya bistriata – Rebouça&-Spieker 1981a: 123; 1981b: 162. — VanzoQini 1981: 196. — GorzuQa & Señari& 1999: 147. — Rodrigue& 2000: 315. — Murphy 1997: 150. — Carranza & ArnoQd 2003: 279 (part).

Mabuya nigropunctata – ÁviQa-Pire& 1995: 584. — Ma&&ary et al. 2001: 19.

TYPE MATERIAL. — HoQotype Qo &t, from the originaQ type QocaQity of “Ecgá”, correct originaQ &peQQing being “Ega”, at pre&ent Tefé , &tate of Amazona &, BraziQ (ÁviQa-Pire& 1995). Neotype: Santa Rita , Município de Maraã , Qeft margin of Rio Japurá (Lago Paricá), &tate of Amazona &, BraziQ ( MPEG 15248 View Materials ) (de&ignated by ÁviQa-Pire& 1995).

MATERIAL EXAMINED. — Brazil. Acre &tate, 5 km N Porto WaQter, W of Rio Juruá, 4 &pec& ( OMNH 37048 to 37051). — Amazona& &tate, Município de Ca&tanho, 40 km S Manau& at km 12 on road to Autaze&, 18 &pec& ( OMNH 37681 to 37698). — Maranhão &tate, Nova Vida, 25 km E of Rio Gurupi, BR 316, 5 &pec& ( MPEG 10690, 10691, 10693, 10695, 10698). — Para &tate, CEMEX, Agropecuaria Trevi&o LTDA, 101 km S and 18 km E Santarém, 15 &pec& ( OMNH 36828 to 36842). — Rondonia &tate, Rio Formo&o, Parque E&taduaQ Guajará-Mirim, 90 km N Nova Mamoré, 7 &pec& ( OMNH 37411 to 37417). — Roraima &tate, 7 km E Rio Ajaraní, BR 210, 10 &pec& ( OMNH 36313 to 36322).

Colombia. Amazona& & tate, Leticia, 2 &pec& ( CM 55601, 55602).

Ecuador. Napo province, San Franci&co, Rio Napo 200 m, 1 &pec. ( UMMZ 84742). — Sucumbio& province, Re&erva Fauni &tica Cuyabeno (RPF- Cuyabeno), 1 &pec. ( OMNH 36514).

French Guiana. St Eugene, 11 &pec& ( MNHN 1996- 4570 to 1996-4572, 1997-2206 to 1997-2213).

Guyana. Cuyuni-Mazaruni region, Kartabu, on the Mazaruni-Potaro, 5 &pec& ( AMNH 15120 to 15122, 18183, 21326).

Peru. Loreto department, Rio Yuvineto, right bank of Rio Putumayo, 2 &pec& ( MNHN 1978-2412, 1978- 2413).

Trinidad and Tobago. Trinidad i&Qand, 1 &pec. ( AMNH 64528); Trinidad i&Qand, San RafaeQ, 8 &pec& ( FMNH 49901 to 49908); Trinidad i&Qand, 1 &pec. ( UMMZ 79919).

Venezuela. Amazona & &tate, Parima B, 1 &pec. ( MHNLS 16389 View Materials ). — Aragua &tate, Quebrada, right bank of the Río San MigueQ, nationaQ park Henri Pittier , 1 &pec. ( MHNLS 17080 View Materials ). — BoQívar &tate, foot of the Roraima Mountain , La Gran Sabana , 5°10’N, 60°47’W, 2 &pec& ( MHNLS 11544 View Materials , 11545 View Materials ) GoogleMaps ; Serranía deQ Supamo, Cerro Santa Ro &a, 1 &pec. ( MHNLS 15532 View Materials ). — DeQta Amacuro &tate, Managa &, 2 &pec& ( LACM 31469 View Materials , 31470 View Materials ) ; Burojoida, 1 &pec. ( MHNLS 4543 View Materials ). — Nueva E&parta &tate, Margarita I & Qand, Cerro Copey, 2 &pec& ( MHNLS 3401 View Materials , 3402 View Materials ). — Miranda &tate, SW Araira, Hacienda La Ceiba , 1 &pec. ( MHNLS 16652 View Materials ) ; Guatire, 3 &pec& ( MHNLS 16655 View Materials , 16651 View Materials , 16658 View Materials ). — Sucre &tate, Penín&uQa de Paria , La & MeQena &, 1 &pec. ( MHNLS 15533 View Materials ) ; Penín &uQa de Paria, Macuro, 1 &pec. ( MHNLS 16203 View Materials ) .

Suriname. Maro?ijne, 10 km N Wanekreek, 1 &pec. ( RMNH 28080). — Air&trip PaQoemeu, 1 &pec. ( RMNH 15629). — Afobaka, 1 &pec. ( RMNH 15593). — A?arra &avannah, Maratakka river, 1 &pec. ( RMNH 16453). — Paramaribo, 1 &pec. ( RMNH 15633). — SipaQi?ini, 1 &pec. ( RMNH 15648). — Nickerie, km 117 on road to Amotopo, KabaQebo area, 1 &pec. ( RMNH 28580); BQanche Marie, 2 &pec& ( RMNH 16468, 16469).

DISTRIBUTION ( Fig. 6). — Mabuya nigropunctata appear& to be by far the mo&t common &pecie& of Mabuya in the Guyano-Amazonian region: thi& &pecie& i& kno?n in BraziQ from the Amazonian region, the Mato Gro&&o &tate, a portion of the AtQantic fore&t& and the cerrado region (ÁviQa-Pire& 1995); in Amazonian part of Ecuador from the province of Sucumbio& (Vitt & de Qa Torre 1996) and the province of Napo ( UMMZ 84742); and every?here in French Guiana (Ma&&ary et al. 2001) and Suriname ( Hoogmoed 1973). We have aQ&o identified &ome &pecimen& from CoQombia ( CM 55601, 55602) a& beQonging to thi& &pecie&.

DIAGNOSIS. — Mabuya ?ith paired prefrontaQ& and frontoparietaQ&, parietaQ pQate& generaQQy &eparated by the interparietaQ pQate, a &ingQe pair of nuchaQ&. Four to &ix, mo&tQy five, u&uaQQy &ubequaQ &upraciQiarie&. PaQm& and &oQe& dark, covered by &maQQ tubercuQe&. On each &ide a?ide, dark QateraQ band, bordered or not by dor- &aQ and ventraQ Qight &tripe&, of?hich the dor&aQ one,?hen pre&ent, u&uaQQy iQQ-defined.

REMARKS

In mainQand VenezueQa, &pecimen& that can cQearQy be a&&igned to M. nigropunctata , foQQo?ing ÁviQa-Pire& (1995), have been found in &ix different &tate&: Amazona&, from Parima B ( MHNLS 16389); Aragua, from the Henri Pittier nationaQ park ( MNHLS 17080); BoQívar, from the foothiQQ& of Cerro Santa Ro&a, a tepui in &erranía deQ Supamo ( MHNLS 15532), and from the foothiQQ& of Roraima tepui ( MHNLS 11544, 1 1 5 4 5); DeQta Amacuro, from Burojoida ( MHNLS 4543) and Managa& ( LACM 31469, 31470); Miranda from Araira ( MHNLS 16652) and Guatire ( MHNLS 16655) and Sucre, in the penín&uQa de Paria, from the path from La& MeQena& to Cerro eQ Humo ( MHNLS 15533) and from Macuro ( MHNLS 16203). AQQ tho&e QocaQitie&, except the t?o &ituated in the &maQQ coa&taQ pQain of Higuerote, Miranda &tate, and the one in the Henri Pittier nationaQ park, Aragua &tate, are in?hat Barrio-Amoró& (1998) caQQed “arco amazónico orientaQ” (ea&tern Amazonian arch) and?hat GorzuQa & Señari& (1999) caQQed “VenezueQan Guayana”. We can infer that M. nigropunctata i& pre&ent in mo&t of the ea&tern part of the country. Moreover, t?o &pecimen& from Margarita I&Qand (&tate of Nueva E&parta), coQQected in 1953 by FeQipe Martín in Cerro Copey ( MHNLS 3401, 3402), are aQ&o M. nigropunctata .

PopuQation& have been regi&tered on the i&Qand& of Trinidad and Tobago. They have been con&idered by many author& a& M. bistriata ( Murphy 1997; Carranza & ArnoQd 2003). Their a&&ignation to thi& &pecie& appear& improbabQe to u&, given that thi& &pecie& i& other?i&e re&tricted to the Guyano-Amazonian region and i& apparentQy ab&ent from VenezueQa. We &tudied &pecimen& from Trinidad i&Qand, confirming them to be M. nigropunctata ( AMNH 64528, FMNH 49901 to 49908, UMMZ 79919). By exten&ion,?e con&ider highQy probabQe that the &pecimen from Tobago, BacoQet &tate ( AMNH 73087), identified by Murphy (1997),?a& not M. bistriata but M. nigropunctata .

ANDEAN MABUYA :

STRONG POLYMORPHISM

OR A SPECIES COMPLEX?

MATERIAL EXAMINED. — Mabuya sp. A: Venezuela. Aragua &tate, CoQonia Tovar ( MHNLS 17088, 17090- 17092). — Di&tri&to capitaQ, Caraca&, Parque NacionaQ

EQ AviQa, Sector Mariperez ( MHNLS 13262). — Miranda &tate, Pico Naiguata ( MHNLS 16656, 16657); Sector EQ AmariQQo, San Antonio de Lo& AQto& ( MHNLS 13734, 13735). — TrujiQQo &tate, near Bocono, front of the Laguna Negra ( MHNLS 16648, 16649). — Varga& &tate, CQub Ca&a de Campo Tovar ( MHNLS 17089, 17093).

Mabuya sp. B: Venezuela. ZuQia &tate, Rio E&caQante, SW Qake Maracaibo, &ector eQ Cañon ( MHNLS 16647); Mara MunicipaQity, Border& of the riecito Maché, river ba&in of the Cachirí river, &ector La OrchiQa, Sierra de Perijá ( MHNLS 16648); Finca Onia, 10 km deQ Vigia, via San Cri&tobaQ, gravid femaQe ( MHNLS 16671); extracted from the uteru& of the femaQe MHNLS 16671 ( MHNLS 17035 to 17040).

During our revie? of VenezueQan Mabuya ,?e &tudied many &pecimen& from aQQ over the continent. It cQearQy appeared that more than every-?here eQ&e in South America, a very high diver&ity of popuQation& occur& coQQectiveQy in the coa&taQ range and the Ande& of VenezueQa ( Fig. 5 View FIG ). The&e popuQation& aQQ have a &ingQe pair of enQarged nuchaQ& and t?o &eparated frontoparietaQ&, but are readiQy di&tingui&hed bet?een them and from kno?n &pecie& of Mabuya in the cephaQic &caQation, coQor pattern or &ize. For the time being?e prefer to incQude tho&e popuQation& in an “Andean &pecie& compQex”. In addition to the recentQy de&- cribed M. meridensis , t?o putative &pecie& have been identified in the Andean region ( Mabuya &p. A from the coa&taQ range and TrujiQQo &tate, and Mabuya &p. B from the Maracaibo Qake ba&in). A &tudy ba&ed on moQecuQar data and detaiQed morphoQogicaQ anaQy&i& i& in preparation to criticaQQy te&t the vaQidity of the&e putative &pecie&.

T

Tavera, Department of Geology and Geophysics

R

Departamento de Geologia, Universidad de Chile

OMNH

Osaka Museum of Natural History

BR

Embrapa Agrobiology Diazothrophic Microbial Culture Collection

MPEG

Museu Paraense Emilio Goeldi

CM

Chongqing Museum

UMMZ

University of Michigan, Museum of Zoology

MNHN

Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle

AMNH

American Museum of Natural History

FMNH

Field Museum of Natural History

RMNH

National Museum of Natural History, Naturalis

MHNLS

Coleccion de Mastozoologia, Museo de Historia Natural de La Salle

LACM

Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Reptilia

Order

Squamata

Family

Scincidae

Genus

Mabuya

Loc

Mabuya meridensis

Miralles, Aurélien, Fuenmayor, Gilson Rivas & Barrio-Amorós, César L. 2005
2005
Loc

Mabuya mabouya

HOOGMOED M. S. 1979: 278
1979
Loc

Mabuya mabouya mabouya

HOOGMOED M. S. 1973: 209
DUNN E. R. 1936: 540
1936
Loc

Mabuya agilis

BURT C. E. & BURT M. D. 1933: 86
1933
Loc

Mabuia surinamensis

COPE E. D. 1862: 186
1862
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