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Cope's mabuya

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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)

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]

Characteristics

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

Ecology

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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

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  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.