Temporal range: Late Miocene/Early Pliocene–Recent[1][2]
Vaillant's mabuya (Chioninia vaillantii) in the Prague Zoo
Scientific classification
Domain:
Eukaryota
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Chordata
Class:
Reptilia
Order:
Squamata
Family:
Scincidae
Subfamily:
Mabuyinae
Genus:
Chioninia Gray, 1845
Species
7 species, see text
Chioninia is a genus of skinks, lizards in the subfamily Lygosominae. For long, this genus was included in the "wastebin taxon" Mabuya. The genus Chioninia contains the Cape Verde mabuyas.[3]
^Carranza, S.; Arnold, E.N.; Mateo, J.A.; López-Jurado, L.F. (2001). "Parallel gigantism and complex colonization patterns in the Cape Verde scincid lizards Mabuya and Macroscincus (Reptilia: Scincidae) revealed by mitochondrial DNA sequences". Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. 268 (1476): 1595–603. doi:10.1098/rspb.2001.1699. PMC 1088783. PMID 11487407.
^Karin, B. R., Metallinou, M., Weinell, J. L., Jackman, T. R., & Bauer, A. M. (2016). Resolving the higher-order phylogenetic relationships of the circumtropical Mabuya group (Squamata: Scincidae): An out-of-Asia diversification. Molecular phylogenetics and evolution, 102, 220-232.
^"The Scincidae – Chioninia". Cyberlizards. Archived from the original on 2004-10-10.
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contributed to the extinction of the Navassa curly-tailed lizard and Chioninia coctei. Cats are common pets throughout the world, and their worldwide...
split, many species being allocated to new genera such as Trachylepis, Chioninia, and Eutropis. Subfamily Acontinae (limbless skinks; 30 species in 2 genera)...
"wastebasket taxon". These Old World species are now placed in the genera Chioninia, Eutropis, and Trachylepis. Under the older classification, the New World...
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name Native range Current status Continental relative Vaillant's mabuya Chioninia vaillanti Cape Verde Endangered Mainland mabuyine skinks Cape Verde giant...
anunciada de dos gigantes macaronésicos: el gran escinco caboverdiano, Chioninia coctei (Duméril & Bibron, 1839) y el lagarto de Salmor, Gallotia simonyi...
Stephanoxis lalandi ; the frog, Tomopterna delalandii ; the lizards, Chioninia delalandii, Nucras lalandii, and Tarentola delalandii ; and the blindsnake...
anunciada de dos gigantes macaronésicos: el gran escinco caboverdiano, Chioninia coctei (Duméril & Bibron, 1839) y el lagarto de Salmor, Gallotia simonyi...
species Parablennius salensis, a blenny species Mabuia salensis, synonym of Chioninia spinalis This disambiguation page lists articles about taxa associated...
of Agaronia acuminata Chioniina spinalis boavistensis, a subspecies of Chioninia spinalis This disambiguation page lists articles about taxa associated...
anunciada de dos gigantes macaronésicos: el gran escinco caboverdiano, Chioninia coctei (Duméril & Bibron, 1839) y el lagarto de Salmor, Gallotia simonyi...
anunciada de dos gigantes macaronésicos: el gran escinco caboverdiano, Chioninia coctei (Duméril & Bibron, 1839) y el lagarto de Salmor, Gallotia simonyi...
found in the excrement of a cat in 2005 (IUCN). Vasconcelos, R. (2013). "Chioninia coctei". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2013: e.T13152363A13152374...
in genus Chioninia. There are three non-native reptiles living on the island. Endemic species include the Cape Verde giant skink (Chioninia coctei) on...
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