Cope's mabuya

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Notomabuya is a genus of skinks. It contains one species, Notomabuya frenata,[3] which is found in South America (Brazil, Bolivia, Paraguay, and northeast Argentina.[2]

Cope's mabuya
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Squamata
Family: Scincidae
Genus: Notomabuya
Hedges & Conn, 2012
Species:
N. frenata
Binomial name
Notomabuya frenata
(Cope, 1862)
Synonyms[2]
  • Emoea frenata Cope, 1862
  • Eumeces Nattereri Steindachner, 1870
  • Mabuya frenata (Cope, 1862)
  • Mabuia frenata (Cope, 1862)

Characteristics edit

This species is viviparous and shows sexual dimorphism in body size, with adults females being bigger than males.[4]

Ecology edit

N. frenata is an diurnal and viviparous species, and its diet is composed mainly by small arthropods, although preying in another smaller lizards and even cannibalism were already registered.[5]

References edit

  1. ^ Cacciali, P.; Carreira, S.; Kacoliris, F.; Montero, R.; Pelegrin, N.; Nogueira, C.; Avila-Pires, T.C.S.; Aparicio, J.; Moravec, J. (2019). "Notomabuya frenata". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2019: e.T47102996A47103009. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2019-2.RLTS.T47102996A47103009.en. Retrieved 18 November 2021.
  2. ^ a b Notomabuya frenata at the Reptarium.cz Reptile Database. Accessed 14 September 2018.
  3. ^ Notomabuya at the Reptarium.cz Reptile Database. Accessed 31 August 2018.
  4. ^ Vrcibradic, Davor; Rocha, Carlos Frederico Duarte (1998-08-03). "Reproductive Cycle and Life-History Traits of the Viviparous Skink Mabuya frenata in Southeastern Brazil". Copeia. 1998 (3): 612. doi:10.2307/1447791. JSTOR 1447791.
  5. ^ Vrcibradic, Davor; Rocha, Carlos Frederico Duarte (June 1998). "The Ecology of the Skink Mabuya frenata in an Area of Rock Outcrops in Southeastern Brazil". Journal of Herpetology. 32 (2): 229. doi:10.2307/1565302. JSTOR 1565302.