Cope's mabuya

Cope's mabuya
Conservation status
Least Concern  (IUCN 3.1) [1]
Scientific 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 frenataCope, 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

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

Ecology

N.frenata is a 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

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. 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.