''Marisora berengerae'', also known
commonly as the San Andrés mabuya and the San Andrés skink, is a
species
In biology, a species is the basic unit of classification and a taxonomic rank of an organism, as well as a unit of biodiversity. A species is often defined as the largest group of organisms in which any two individuals of the appropriate s ...
of
lizard
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in the
family
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Scincidae. The species is
endemic
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to
San Andrés, an island in the southwestern
Caribbean
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.
Etymology
The
specific name Specific name may refer to:
* in Database management systems, a system-assigned name that is unique within a particular database
In taxonomy, either of these two meanings, each with its own set of rules:
* Specific name (botany), the two-part (bino ...
, ''berengerae'', is in honor of Bérengère Miralles who is the wife
Aurélien Miralles, the describer of this species.
[ Beolens B, Watkins M, ]Grayson M
Grayson may refer to:
Places Canada
* Grayson, Saskatchewan
* Rural Municipality of Grayson No. 184, Saskatchewan
United States
* Grayson, California
* Grayson, Georgia
** Grayson High School
* Grayson, Kentucky
* Grayson, Louisiana
* Gray ...
(2011). ''The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles''. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. . (''Mabuya berengerae'', p. 24).
Habitat
The preferred natural
habitat
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of ''M. berengerae'' is
forest
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, at altitudes from sea level to .
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Behavior
''M. berengerae'' is arboreal
Arboreal locomotion is the Animal locomotion, locomotion of animals in trees. In habitats in which trees are present, animals have evolved to move in them. Some animals may scale trees only occasionally, but others are exclusively arboreal. Th ...
and has been found high in palms and other trees.[
]
Reproduction
''M. berengerae'' is viviparous
Among animals, viviparity is development of the embryo inside the body of the parent. This is opposed to oviparity which is a reproductive mode in which females lay developing eggs that complete their development and hatch externally from the m ...
.[
]
References
Further reading
* Caicedo JR (2014). "''Redescubrimiento de ''Mabuya berengerae, Mabuya pergravis'' (Squamata: Scincidae) y ''Coniophanes andresensis'' (Squamata: Colubridae) y evaluación de su estado de amenaza en las islas de San Andrés y Providencia, Colombia'' [Rediscovery of ''Mabuya berengerae, Mabuya pergravis'' (Squamata: Scincidae) and ''Coniophanes andresensis'' (Squamata: Colubridae), and assessment of its threatened status in the San Andrés and Providencia Islands, Colombia]". ''Caldasia'' 36 (1): 181–201. (in Spanish).
*Stephen Blair Hedges, Hedges SB, Caitlin E. Conn, Conn CE (2012). "A new skink fauna from Caribbean islands (Squamata, Mabuyidae, Mabuyinae)". ''Zootaxa'' 3288: 1–244. (''Alinea berengerae'', new combination).
* Miralles A (2006). "A new species of ''Mabuya'' (Reptilia, Squamata, Scincidae) from the Caribbean Island of San Andrés, with a new interpretation of nuchal scales: A character of taxonomic importance". ''Herpetological Journal'' 16 (1): 1–7. (''Mabuya berengerae'', new species).
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Marisora
Reptiles described in 2006
Taxa named by Aurélien Miralles