[HTML][HTML] A new skink fauna from Caribbean islands (Squamata, Mabuyidae, Mabuyinae)

SB Hedges, CE Conn - Zootaxa, 2012‏ - mapress.com
Neotropical skinks are unique among lizards and other vertebrates in their degree of
convergence, in reproductive traits, with eutherian mammals. They have also been famously …

The reptiles of Paraguay: literature, distribution, and an annotated taxonomic checklist

P Cacciali, NJ Scott, AL Aquino Ortíz, LA Fitzgerald… - 2016‏ - digitalrepository.unm.edu
Our goal is to provide a current list of reptile species of Paraguay, with maps of their known
occurrences. Surprisingly little research has been conducted on the reptile fauna of …

The challenge of species delimitation at the extremes: diversification without morphological change in Philippine sun skinks

AJ Barley, J White, AC Diesmos, RM Brown - Evolution, 2013‏ - academic.oup.com
An accurate understanding of species diversity is essential to studies across a wide range of
biological subdisciplines. However, delimiting species remains challenging in evolutionary …

[HTML][HTML] Reptiles of Venezuela: an updated and commented checklist

GA Rivas, CR Molina, GN Ugueto, TR Barros… - Zootaxa, 2012‏ - biotaxa.org
We update the list of reptiles of Venezuela, reporting a total of 370 species from the country
(four of these exotic), arrangedin 122 genera (one exotic), 30 families and three orders …

Integrative overview of the herpetofauna from Serra da Mocidade, a granitic mountain range in northern Brazil

LJCL Moraes, AP de Almeida, R de Fraga… - ZooKeys, 2017‏ - pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
The Brazilian mountain ranges from the Guiana Shield highlands are largely unexplored,
with an understudied herpetofauna. Here the amphibian and reptile species diversity of the …

[HTML][HTML] Catalogue of distribution of lizards (Reptilia: Squamata) from the Brazilian Amazonia. III. Anguidae, Scincidae, Teiidae

MA Ribeiro-Junior, S Amaral - Zootaxa, 2016‏ - mapress.com
We present distribution data of all Anguidae, Scincidae, and Teiidae lizards known from the
Brazilian Amazonia, totaling 29 species-level taxa, belonging to 14 genera. This represents …

Taxonomic Revision of Philippine Sun Skinks (Reptilia: Squamata: Scincidae: Eutropis), and Descriptions of Eight New Species

AJ Barley, AC Diesmos, CD Siler… - Herpetological …, 2020‏ - meridian.allenpress.com
Species descriptions of reptiles historically have relied exclusively on the use of
morphological data; however, these external, phenotypic data do not always co-vary with …

Systematics and biogeography of the Neotropical genus Mabuya, with special emphasis on the Amazonian skink Mabuya nigropunctata (Reptilia, Scincidae)

A Miralles, S Carranza - Molecular phylogenetics and evolution, 2010‏ - Elsevier
Phylogenetic analyses using up to 1532 base pairs (bp) of mitochondrial DNA from 106
specimens of Neotropical Mabuya, including 18 of the 19 recognized South American and …

Molecular phylogenetics and biogeography of the Neotropical skink genus Mabuya Fitzinger (Squamata: Scincidae) with emphasis on Colombian populations

NR Pinto-Sánchez, ML Calderón-Espinosa… - Molecular phylogenetics …, 2015‏ - Elsevier
Understanding the phylogenetic and geographical history of Neotropical lineages requires
having adequate geographic and taxonomic sampling across the region. However …

Molecular systematics of Caribbean skinks of the genus Mabuya (Reptilia, Scincidae), with descriptions of two new species from Venezuela

A Miralles, GR FUENMAYOR, C Bonillo… - Zoological Journal of …, 2009‏ - academic.oup.com
Phylogenetic relationships among the species of Mabuya present around the Caribbean
Sea (Antilles, Central America, and northern South America) are proposed for the first time …