Mabuya

Translingual

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.) Name invented by Leopold Fitzinger in 1826 in "Neue Classification der Reptilien nach ihren natürlichen Verwandtschaften. Nebst einer Verwandtschafts-tafel und einem Verzeichnisse der Reptilien-Sammlung des K. K. zoologischen Museum's zu Wien"

Proper noun

Mabuya f

A taxonomic genus within the family Scincidae – certain long-tailed skinks of the Caribbean islands.

Hypernyms

(genus): Eukaryota – superkingdom; Animalia – kingdom; Bilateria – subkingdom; Deuterostomia – infrakingdom; Chordata – phylum; Vertebrata – subphylum; Gnathostomata – infraphylum; Tetrapoda – superclass; Reptilia – class; Diapsida - subclass; Lepidosauromorpha - infraclass; Lepidosauria - superorder; Squamata - order; Scincoidea - order; Scincidae - family; Mabuyinae - subfamily

Hyponyms

(genus): Mabuya mabouya (greater Martinique skink) - type species

References

Mabuya on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Mabuya on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
Mabuya on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons