Marisora aurulae

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Scincoidea

Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Superphylum: Deuterostomia Phylum: Chordata Subphylum: Vertebrata Infraphylum: Gnathostomata Megaclassis: Osteichthyes Cladus: Sarcopterygii Cladus: Rhipidistia Cladus: Tetrapodomorpha Cladus: Eotetrapodiformes Cladus: Elpistostegalia Superclassis: Tetrapoda Cladus: Reptiliomorpha Cladus: Amniota Classis: Reptilia Cladus: Eureptilia Cladus: Romeriida Subclassis: Diapsida Cladus: Sauria Infraclassis: Lepidosauromorpha Superordo: Lepidosauria Ordo: Squamata Subordo: Scincomorpha Superfamilia: Scincoidea

Familia: Scincidae
Subfamilia: Mabuyinae
Genus: Marisora
Species: Marisora aurulae

Name

Marisora aurulae Hedges & Conn, 2012: 122

• Holotype: MCZ R-38196, adult ♀, collectedby J. B. Myers on 11 November 1934.
• Type locality: “Young's Island, St. Vincent”.
• Etymology: Derived from the Latin noun aurula (small wind, breeze) alluding to both its smaller size (compared with sympatric Copeoglossum aurae sp. nov.) and its distribution on the Windward Islands: the southern Lesser Antilles, sometimes including Trinidad and Tobago.

Chresonyms

• Mabuia agilis Boulenger, 1887: 191 (part)
• Mabuia aenea Garman, 1887: 53 (part)
• Mabuya aenea Barbour, 1914: 322 (part)
• Mabuya aenea Barbour, 1930: 105 (part)
• Mabuya mabouia Barbour, 1935: 129 (part)
• Mabuya mabouya mabouya Dunn, 1936: 544 (part)
• Mabuya mabouia Barbour, 1937: 147 (part)
• Mabuya aenea Underwood, 1963: 83 (part)
• Mabuya mabouya mabouya Peters & Donoso-Barros, 1970: 200 (part)
• Mabuya mabouya mabouya Schwartz & Thomas, 1975: 141 (part)
• Mabuya mabouya mabouya Maclean et al., 1977: 40–41 (part)
• Mabuya mabouya mabouya Schwartz & Henderson, 1988: 150 (part)
• Mabuya mabouya mabouya Schwartz & Henderson, 1991: 457 (part)
• Mabuya bistriata Powell et al., 1996: 82 (part)
• Mabuya sloanii Mayer & Lazell, 2000: 883 (part)
• Mabuya mabouya Miralles, 2005: 49 (part?)
• Mabuya falconensis Miralles et al., 2009: 609 (part)
• Mabuya mabouya Henderson & Powell, 2009: 292 (part)
• Marisora aurulae Hedges & Conn, 2012: 122

References

Primary references

• Hedges, S.B. & Conn, C.E. 2012. A new skink fauna from Caribbean islands (Squamata, Mabuyidae, Mabuyinae). Zootaxa 3288(1): 1–244. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3288.1.1 ; PDF Reference page. 

Links

• Uetz, P. & Hallermann, J. 2024. Marisora magnacornae. The Reptile Database. Accessed on 21 April 2020.
• Hedges, B., Murphy, J. & Powell, R. 2016. IUCN: Marisora aurulae  (Vulnerable) (errata version published in 2017). The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2016: e.T47102972A115397232. DOI: 10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-3.RLTS.T47102972A47102978.en

Vernacular names

English: Lesser Windward Skink