Marisora pergravis

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 pergravis

Name

Marisora pergravis (Barbour, 1921)

• Holotype: USNM 13875, collected by Albatross Expedition in April 1884.
• Type locality: “Old Providence Island”.

Combinations

• Mabuya pergravis Barbour, 1921: 85 [original combination]
• Mabuya mabouya pergravis — Dunn & Saxe, 1950: 154 [subsequent combination, reduce to subspecies]
• Mabuya pergravis — Miralles, 2006 [subsequent combination, restaure to species]
• Alinea pergravis — Hedges & Conn, 2012: 23 [subsequent combination]
• Marisora pergravis — McCranie, Matthews & Hedges, 2020: 303 [subsequent combination]

Native distribution areas

• Colombia: Providence and Santa Catalina islands.

References

Primary references

• Barbour, T. 1921. Some Reptiles from Old Providence Island. Proceedings of the New England Zoölogical Club 7: 81–85. BHL Reference page. 
• Dunn, E.R. & Saxe, L.H. 1950. Results of the Catherwood-Chaplin West Indies Expedition, 1948. Part. 5. Amphibians and reptiles of San Andrés and Providencia. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 102: 141–165. JSTOR Reference page. 
• 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. The Herpetological Journal 16(1): 1–7.
• 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. 
• McCranie, J.R., Matthews, A.J. & Hedges, S.B. 2020. A morphological and molecular revision of lizards of the genus Marisora Hedges & Conn (Squamata: Mabuyidae) from Central America and Mexico, with descriptions of four new species. Zootaxa 4763(3): 301–353. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4763.3.1 Reference page. 

Links

• Uetz, P. & Hallermann, J. 2024. Marisora pergravis. The Reptile Database. Accessed on 21 April 2020.
• Caicedo, J. 2015. IUCN: Marisora pergravis  (Least Concern) (errata version published in 2017). The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2015: e.T44579189A115387682. DOI: 10.2305/IUCN.UK.2015-4.RLTS.T44579189A44579198.en. Accessed on 22 June 2023.

Vernacular names

English: Providencia Island Skink