Vaillant's mabuya

Chioninia vaillantii
Scientific classification
Kingdom:Animalia
Phylum:Chordata
Class:Reptilia
Order:Squamata
Family:Scincidae
Genus:Chioninia
Species: C. vaillantii
Binomial name
Chioninia vaillantii
(Boulenger, 1887)
Synonyms[2]
  • Mabuia vaillantii
    Boulenger, 1887
  • Mabuya vaillantii
    — Greer, 1976

Chioninia vaillantii (Vaillant's skink or mabuya) is a species of skinks in the family Scincidae. The species is endemic to the Cape Verde Islands.[2] It is listed as endangered by the IUCN because it occurs as a very fragmented population and the quality of its habitat is declining.[1] Vaillant's mabuya occurs on the islands Fogo and Santiago, and the islet Ilhéu de Cima.[1]

The specific name, vaillantii, is in honor of French herpetologist Léon Louis Vaillant.[3]

References

  1. 1 2 3 R. Vasconcelos (2012). "Chioninia vaillantii". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2018-1. International Union for Conservation of Nature. Retrieved 2018-10-09.
  2. 1 2 Chioninia vaillantii at the Reptarium.cz Reptile Database. Accessed 31 January 2017.
  3. ↑ Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. ISBN 978-1-4214-0135-5. (Mabuya vaillantii, p. 271).


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