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“…In reptiles, phenotypic diagnosability has been poorly considered in proposals to partition the originally widespread genus Mabuya (Mausfeld et al 2002;Hedges & Conn 2012), probably because these and other scincid lizard taxa are anyway notoriously difficult to diagnose. In amphibians, different views exist concerning whether New World direct-developing frogs are more appropriately classified in one family (as Brachycephalidae; Frost et al 2006) or five families (as the unranked group Terrarana, with the families Brachycephalidae, Ceuthomantidae, Craugastoridae, Eleutherodactylidae, and Strabomantidae; Hedges et al 2008;Heinicke et al 2009), but it certainly is true that in the five-family classification an absolute diagnosis at family level is impossible.…”
Section: Phenotypic Diagnosabilitymentioning
confidence: 99%
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“…In reptiles, phenotypic diagnosability has been poorly considered in proposals to partition the originally widespread genus Mabuya (Mausfeld et al 2002;Hedges & Conn 2012), probably because these and other scincid lizard taxa are anyway notoriously difficult to diagnose. In amphibians, different views exist concerning whether New World direct-developing frogs are more appropriately classified in one family (as Brachycephalidae; Frost et al 2006) or five families (as the unranked group Terrarana, with the families Brachycephalidae, Ceuthomantidae, Craugastoridae, Eleutherodactylidae, and Strabomantidae; Hedges et al 2008;Heinicke et al 2009), but it certainly is true that in the five-family classification an absolute diagnosis at family level is impossible.…”
Section: Phenotypic Diagnosabilitymentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Linnaean ranks might be preferentially applied to taxa restricted to certain continents, biogeographic realms, biogeographic regions, or islands. For instance, although biogeography was not explicitly invoked, of various alternatives to split the previously cosmopolitan lizard genus Mabuya, the scheme initially chosen (Mausfeld et al 2002) applied one genus name to each continental radiation (i.e., Africa, South America, Asia, plus one more genus from Cape Verde). Other examples have been mentioned where improved geographic unity was used as an argument to redefine genera (Stuessy 1990).…”
Section: Biogeographymentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Phylogenetic studies published during the last decade led to splitting the former genus Mabuya sensu lato into four geographically distinct monophyletic genera, i.e., Eutropis in Asia, Trachylepis mainly in Africa and Madagascar, Mabuya sensu stricto in the Neotropics and Chioninia in the Cape Verde archipelago (Mausfeld et al 2002, Carranza & Arnold 2003, and a phylogenetic meta-analysis of squamates revealed two additional genera (Dasia in Asia and Eumecia in Southern Africa) nested within the "Mabuya clade" (Pyron et al 2013).…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…The Noronha skink Euprepis atlanticus (= Mabuya atlantica), a lizard endemic to Fernando de Noronha Archipelago in SW Atlantic (Mausfeld et al 2002), attains up to 25 cm in total length, forages mostly on the ground and thrives on anything edible from human leftovers to its own eggs (Silva-Jr. et al 2005). This 'little dragon' is even able to tear apart pieces from larger animals' corpses (birds and fishes, IS pers.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%