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MABUYA 



8. Frequently four supraoculars; vertebral dark 8. Frecuentemente cuatro supraoculares; cinta 



stripe absent mabouva vertebral oscura ausente mabouya 



Frequently three supraoculars; vertebral darl< Frecuentemente tres supraoculares; cinta verte- 



stripe present dorsovi ttata bral oscura presente dorsovi ttata 



MABUYA BRACHYPODA Taylor ' ''' '-"J»'" 



19% Mabuya bracliypodus Taylor, Univ. Kansas Sci. Bull., 38: 3O8, fig. 76. Type-locality: Four km 



ESE of Los Angeles de Tilaran, Guanacaste, Costa Rica. 

 iq'iS Mabuya brachypoda — Webb, Univ. Kansas Sci. Bull., 38 (2): 1303- 



Distribution: Pacific slopes from Yucatán Peninsula, Mexico to Costa Rica. 



MABUYA DORSIVITTATA Cope 



1862 Mabuia dorsivittata Cope. Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1862: 35O. Type-locality: Paraguay. 

 I874 Euprepes ( Mabu ia ) ~v i rqatus Peters, Monats. Akad. Wiss. Berlin, 1874: 621. Type-locality: 

 Unknown, possibly from Australian Islands. 



1884 Mabuya Jobertii Thominot. Bull. Soc. Philom. Paris, (7) 8: 148. Type-locality: Itatiaha, Brazil. 



1885 Mabu ia tetrataenia Boettger, Zeitsch. fur Naturwiss., $8: 227. Type-locality: Paraguay. 

 1^68 Mabuya dorsov i t tata — Gallardo. Rev. Mus. Argentino Cien. Nat., Zool., J: 180, figs. 1-2. 



Distribution: Uruguay, Paraguay, northern Argentina and southern Brazil. 



MABUYA FRENATA (Cope) 



1862 Emoea frenata Cope. Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1862: I87. Type-locality: Rfo Paraguay 



valley, Paraguay. 

 1879 Mabuya frenata — Bocourt . Miss. Sci. Mex., Rept.: 404. 

 1968 Mabouya frenata — Gallardo. Rev. Mus. Argentino Cien.. Nat., Zool., 9: I87, fig. 3. 



Distribution: Bolivia, Brazil, Paraguay and Argentina. 

 Content; Two subspecies. 



Key to the subspecies Clave de subespecies 



1. Usually with dark vertebral stripe; 1. Usualmente una cinta vertebral oscura; 

 pronounced dark dorsal stripes; three cintas dorsales marcadas; tres supra- 



supra oculars cochabambae oculares cochabambae 



Usually without dark vertebral stripe; dark Usualmente sin cinta vertebral oscura; 

 dorsal stripes faintly marked; usually cintas dorsales poco marcadas; usualmente 

 four supraoculars frenata cuatro supraoculares frenata 



Mabuya frenata frenata (Cope) 



I87O Eumeces ( Mabouya ) l'latterer i Ste i ndachner, Sitz. Math. -Na turw i ss.' Kl. Akad. Wiss. Vienna, 



62: 339, pl. 3, fig. 4. Type-locality: Brazil. 

 1935 Mabouya frenata frenata — Dunn. Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 87: 55I. 



Distribution: Amazonian Bolivia; Mato Grosso, Brazil; Paraguay; Misiones to Mendoza, 

 Argent i na. 



Mabuya frenata cochabambae Dunn '?i'^' 



1935 Mabuya frenata cochabambae Dunn, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 87: 553- Type-locality: 

 Pocona, Departamento Cochabamba, Bolivia. 



Distribution: Known from Cochabamba and Santa Cruz, Bolivia, 



