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females; (21) supranasals in medial contact in 31, not in contact in 1, preventing frontonasal-rostral contact in 96.9%; (22) prefrontals widely separated in 30, in contact with each other in 2; (23) supraocular 1-frontal contact absent in 26, present in 5; (24) parietals in contact posterior to interparietal; (25) pale middorsal stripe absent; (26) dark, thin dorsolateral dark stripe of dashes present in 15, absent in 18, pale brown to cream dorsolateral stripe present in 29 of 33; (27) dark lateral stripe present, about 2 scale rows high; (28) each side of body with distinct white lateral stripe; (29) palms and soles cream to dark brown; (30) total lamellae for five fingers
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females; (31) total lamellae for five toes
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males,
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females. In addition, this is a long limbed species with a combined FLL + HLL/SVL 60.868.7% in males, 55.868.0% in females, and usually has 2 chinshields contacting infralabials (
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).
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is apparently a member of the
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Group of Middle American
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(no genetic data available).
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has been diagnosed from the four species of
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described herein (
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,
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,
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,
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and
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<emphasis id="76AAEAD6FFEBFF84FCA28D037C3EF9C9" box="[775,884,1578,1603]" italics="true" pageId="32" pageNumber="333">M. urtica</emphasis>
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) in their respective diagnoses above.
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differs from the more southern and also Caribbean lowland
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in having 30 scales around midbody in 93.1% and
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6.9% (versus
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48.5%,
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40.0%, or rarely 27 or 29 midbody scales in
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) and having the fifth supralabial below the orbit in 85.5% (versus sixth supralabial below orbit in 73.8% of
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).
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is distinguished from the slightly more northern Caribbean
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in having longer limbs (FLL + HLL/SVL 60.868.7% in males, 55.868.0% in females versus 53.558.4% in males and 47.857.7% in females in
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).
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differs from
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by having longer limbs (FLL + HLL/SVL 60.868.7% in males and 55.868.0% in females versus FLL + HLL/SVL 51.557.7% in males and 47.653.9% in females and in having a pale brown dorsolateral stripe (versus distinct pale brown dorsolateral stripe absent in
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).
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differs from the extralimital
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by having fewer ventrals (
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males versus
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), fewer dorsals (5259 versus
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differs from
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of the
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group by having the fifth supralabial below the orbit in 85.5% (versus sixth supralabial below orbit in 81.9% in
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), 2 chinshields in con- tact with infralabials in 87.3% (versus 1 chinshield contacting an infralabial in 82.9% in
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), and having only scattered and slightly darker brown dorsal spots (versus numerous dark brown dorsal spots present in
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).
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is known to differ from the extralimital and poorly known
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(incomplete morphological data from literature available only from the unsexed
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) of the
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<emphasis id="76AAEAD6FFEAFF85FB7A8A2F7AD6FE95" box="[1247,1436,262,287]" italics="true" pageId="33" pageNumber="334">M. unimarginata</emphasis>
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group only from genetic data; furthermore a large geographical hiatus inhabited by other species of
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<emphasis id="76AAEAD6FFEAFF85FB468A037A07FEC9" box="[1251,1357,298,323]" italics="true" pageId="33" pageNumber="334">Marisora</emphasis>
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occurs between those two species.
</paragraph>
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<subSubSection id="0CC4654FFFEAFF85FF628A597A28FE72" pageId="33" pageNumber="334" type="distribution">
<paragraph id="446136C4FFEAFF85FF628A597A28FE72" blockId="33.[151,1437,153,899]" pageId="33" pageNumber="334">
<emphasis id="76AAEAD6FFEAFF85FF628A597E2BFE01" bold="true" box="[199,353,368,395]" pageId="33" pageNumber="334">Distribution.</emphasis>
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<emphasis id="76AAEAD6FFEAFF85FECD8A5B7D3EFE01" box="[360,628,370,395]" italics="true" pageId="33" pageNumber="334">Marisora magnacornae</emphasis>
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was described based on a single specimen from Big Corn Island, but is now better known from several mainland localities along the environs of the Río Escondido and tributaries,
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,
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(
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). Those mainland localities lie to the north, west, and south of Bluefields and lie in the lowlands on the Caribbean versant in eastern and south-central
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(about 4 to about
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elevation).
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</subSubSection>
<subSubSection id="0CC4654FFFEAFF85FF6289287CE9FC09" pageId="33" pageNumber="334" type="discussion">
<paragraph id="446136C4FFEAFF85FF6289287A03FC9D" blockId="33.[151,1437,153,899]" pageId="33" pageNumber="334">
<emphasis id="76AAEAD6FFEAFF85FF6289287E71FD91" bold="true" box="[199,315,513,539]" pageId="33" pageNumber="334">Remarks.</emphasis>
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evasively reported a single specimen (MCZ R 26976) of
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<emphasis id="76AAEAD6FFEAFF85FABA89287A31FD91" box="[1311,1403,513,539]" italics="true" pageId="33" pageNumber="334">Mabuya</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
(=
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<emphasis id="76AAEAD6FFEAFF85FF32890F7E4BFDB5" box="[151,257,550,575]" italics="true" pageId="33" pageNumber="334">Marisora</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
) from one of the Corn Islands; those authors did not refer to either of the two Corn Islands. Subsequently, no publication ever associated the Corn Islands with any discussion of these mabuyid skinks until
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described the MCZ specimen as the new species
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<emphasis id="76AAEAD6FFEAFF85FCB089477B6BFD0D" box="[789,1057,622,647]" italics="true" pageId="33" pageNumber="334">Marisora magnacornae</emphasis>
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(including all of those references listed in the synonymy of this species by Hedges &amp; Conn). No specimens of
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<emphasis id="76AAEAD6FFEAFF85FC5A89BB7B23FD21" box="[1023,1129,658,683]" italics="true" pageId="33" pageNumber="334">Marisora</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
have been collected on the Corn Islands since that original specimen in
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(see
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Sunyer
<emphasis id="76AAEAD6FFEAFF85FC05899F7C93FD45" box="[928,985,693,719]" italics="true" pageId="33" pageNumber="334">et al.</emphasis>
2013
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). Those circumstances might suggest that the single Corn Island specimen could have been introduced to that island by a boat carrying cargo from the mainland port of Bluefields, from which this skink is now known to occur to the north, west, and south.
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="446136C4FFEAFF85FF62880B7A21FCD5" blockId="33.[151,1437,153,899]" pageId="33" pageNumber="334">
<taxonomicName id="83DE4D47FFEAFF85FF62880B7E9BFCB1" authorityName="Hedges &amp; Conn." authorityYear="2012" box="[199,465,802,827]" class="Reptilia" family="Scincidae" genus="Marisora" kingdom="Animalia" order="Squamata" pageId="33" pageNumber="334" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="magnacornae">
<emphasis id="76AAEAD6FFEAFF85FF62880B7E9BFCB1" box="[199,465,802,827]" italics="true" pageId="33" pageNumber="334">Marisora magnacornae</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
might be most closely related to
<emphasis id="76AAEAD6FFEAFF85FC9E880B7C8BFCB1" box="[827,961,801,827]" italics="true" pageId="33" pageNumber="334">
<taxonomicName id="83DE4D47FFEAFF85FC9E880B7CF7FCB1" authorityName=": Hedges &amp; Conn" authorityYear="2012" baseAuthorityName="Cope" baseAuthorityYear="1875" box="[827,957,801,827]" class="Reptilia" family="Scincidae" genus="Marisora" kingdom="Animalia" order="Squamata" pageId="33" pageNumber="334" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="alliacea">M. alliacea</taxonomicName>
.
</emphasis>
Both species are similar in limb length and occur in mesic Caribbean lowland habitats. Unfortunately, genetic data for
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<emphasis id="76AAEAD6FFEAFF85FC45886F7BEAFCD5" box="[992,1184,838,863]" italics="true" pageId="33" pageNumber="334">M. magnacornae</emphasis>
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remain unknown.
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="446136C4FFEAFF85FF6288407CE9FC09" blockId="33.[151,1437,153,899]" box="[199,931,873,899]" pageId="33" pageNumber="334">
Images of
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<emphasis id="76AAEAD6FFEAFF85FE9888437D02FC09" box="[317,584,874,899]" italics="true" pageId="33" pageNumber="334">Marisora magnacornae</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
are in
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.
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