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HAMADRYAD Vol HAMADRYAD Vol. 29, No. 1, December 2004. Date of issue: 30 December 2004. ISSN 0972-205X CONTENTS A. E. GREER & S. R. TELFORD, JR. Some observations on the morphology and reproduction of the Philippine Islands skink Mabuya cumingi . 1 – 4 S. G. PLATT, KALYAR & T. R. RAINWATER. Inle Lake turtles, Myanmar with notes on Intha and Pa-O ethnoherpetology . .5 – 14 L. L. GRISMER, J. SUKUMARAN, J. L. GRISMER, T. M. YOUMANS, P. L. WOOD, JR. & R. JOHNSON. Report on the herpetofauna from the Temengor Forest Reserve, Perak, West Malaysia . 15 – 32 A. TEYNIÉ, P. DAVID, A. OHLER & K. LUANGLATH. Notes on a collection of amphibians and reptiles from southern Laos, with a discussion of the occurrence of Indo-Malayan species . 33 – 62 T. R. BROPHY. Geographic variation and systematics in the south-east Asian turtles of the genus Malayemys (Testudines: Bataguridae) . 63 – 79 T. R. BROPHY & C. H. ERNST. Sexual dimorphism, allometry and vertebral scute morphology in Notochelys platynota (Gray, 1834) . 80 – 88 A. LOBO, B. PANDAV & K. VASUDEVAN.. Weight–length relationships in two species of marine snakes along the coast of Goa, western India . 89 – 93 R. G. WEBB & P. P. VAN DIJK. Comments on the narrow-headed softshell turtle (Chitra chitra) (Testudines, Trionychidae). 94 – 100 I. DAS, S. SENGUPTA, M. FIROZ AHMED & S. K. DUTTA. A new species of Kaloula (Anura: Microhylidae) from north-eastern India . 101 – 109 G. VOGEL, P. DAVID, O. S. G. PAUWELS & N. BRACHTEL.. On the occurrence of the watersnake Sinonatrix aequifasciata (Barbour, 1908) (Serpentes, Colubridae, Natricinae) in Vietnam . 110 – 114 O. S. G. PAUWELS, W. R. BRANCH & M. BURGER. Reptiles of Loango National Park, Ogooué-Maritime Province, south-western Gabon . 115 – 127 NOTES S. G. PLATT, WIN KO KO, LAY LAY KHAING, KHIN MYO MYO, THANDA SWE, KALYAR & T. R. RAINWATER. Recent records and comments on the distribution and conservation status of Geochelone platynota (Blyth, 1863) in the dry zone of central Myanmar. 128 – 131 O. GROSSELET, S. SENGUPTA, A. GUPTA, M. VAUCHE & S. GUPTA. Microhyla heymonsi Vogt, 1911 (Anura: Microhylidae) from mainland India, with bioacoustic analysis of its advertising call . 131 – 133 I. DAS. On neotype designations for Coronella cyclura Cantor, 1839 (Serpentes: Colubridae) . 133 – 134 R. MATHEW & A. B. MEETEI. On the identity of Amphiesma venningi (Wall 1910) reported from Meghalaya, India . 134 – 135 M. AULIYA. A first record of Pareas carinatus Wagler, 1830 (Serpentes: Colubridae: Pareatinae) on Bali, with notes on a tropical snake community. 135 – 137 R. VYAS. Observation on the breeding of Mabuya macularia . 137 – 138 O. S. G. PAUWELS, V. WALLACH, J.-P. BITEAU, C. CHIMSUNCHART, J.-A. YOGA & B.-C. O'HEIX. First record of Ramphotyphlops braminus (Serpentes: Typhlopidae) from Gabon, western central Africa . 138 – 139 G. LANGENBERGER. Ophiophagus behaviour of Psammodynastes pulverulentus in the Philippines . 140 BOOK REVIEWS R. WHITAKER. Snakes and their ways by C. H. Curran and Carl Kauffeld. 141 – 142 O. S. G. PAUWELS. Liste des reptiles d’Afrique Centrale by Thierry Frétey and Charles P. Blanc . 142 – 143 ANNOUNCEMENTS . 144 – 145 Hamadryad Vol. 29, No. 1, pp. 1 – 4, 2004. Copyright 2004 Centre for Herpetology, Madras Crocodile Bank Trust. SOME OBSERVATIONS ON THE MORPHOLOGY AND REPRODUCTION OF THE PHILIPPINE ISLANDS SKINK MABUYA CUMINGI Allen E. Greer1 and Sam R. Telford, Jr.2 1Herpetology Section, Australian Museum, 6 College Street, Sydney, NSW 2010, Australia. Email: [email protected] 2The Florida Museum of Natural History, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida 32611, U.S.A. (with two text-figures) ABSTRACT.– A collection of 35 Mabuya cumingi from one locality on Luzon, Philippines, provides additional data on the species' morphology and biology. The parietal eye spot is variable and not correlated with either snout-vent length or sex. There is a significant correlation between the number of keels on the dorsal scales and the snout-vent length and between the head length and the number of maxillary teeth. There is a pronounced sexual dichromatism: males have prominent ventrolateral orange stripes which females lack. The species is oviparous. Females with large follicles or ovarian eggs range 40-45 mm (mean = 43.1 mm) in snout-vent length, have 2-3 eggs (mean 2.2) and were collected in a period coinciding with the end of the rainy season. In both sexes, snout-vent length is in slight positive allometry with head length. There is no significant difference between the sexes in either snout-vent length or the number of paravertebral scales. The presence or absence of pigment in the parietal peritoneum is variable in Mabuya and is likely to prove to be an important phylogenetic and/or ecological character. KEY WORDS.– Allometry, Mabuya, parietal peritoneum, reproduction, Scincidae, sexual dimorphism, sexual dichromatism. INTRODUCTION cies' morphology and reproduction, which we In 1966, one of us (ST) collected a series of 35 report here. Mabuya from along a stream bank on FM Hill (c. 15º 21' N, 120º 57' E) at Clark Air Force Base MATERIALS AND METHODS on Luzon, Philippines. Two specimens were Head length was measured to the nearest 0.1 collected in February, two in July and the rest mm with callipers between the tip of the snout in August. The skinks were collected in morn- and the centre of the external ear opening on ing hours along footpaths through low second- the left side of the head. Snout-vent length was ary vegetation on a hillside adjacent to a small measured to the nearest 0.5 mm by applying the stream. These specimens remained in the collec- ventral surface of the straightened specimen to tions of the University of Florida (UF 79941- a steel rule. The number of keels per individual 79960, 135128-135142) identified only to genus was the mean of the number of keels on five until we examined them. We found them to be body scales on the mid-dorsum of the trunk. representatives of M. cumingi (Fig. 1) a species The sex, reproductive state and colour of the described in 1980 (Brown and Alcala, 1980) but parietal peritoneum were assessed through a virtually unreported on again since then other pre-existing slit in the venter of the body. Colour than for a range extension to Lanyu Island, Tai- was noted at the time of collection. wan based on a single specimen (Ota and Huang, When both sides of a bilateral character are 2000). Our examination of these specimens re- counted, we report the number of "cases"; other- vealed a number of new details about the spe- wise we report the number of individuals as "n". 2 HAMADRYAD [Vol. 29, No. 1 Statistical analysis was carried out using Sys- tat 9.0 software. Statistical tests are identified in the text. The level of significance was 0.05. Polarity of character states was made by ref- erence to the Pariocela subgroup of Eumeces (see Greer et al., 2004, for rationale). We do not adopt the recent taxonomic sub- division of the genus Mabuya (Mausfeld et al., FIGURE 1: Mabuya cumingi (UF 135131). Photo. S. 2002; Mausfeld and Schmitz, 2003), because we Humphreys. think its proposals are premature in light of the relatively few taxa analysed to date (see Greer et al., 2004). RESULTS Morphology. In the following summary of some of the species' systematically important char- acters, comparable observations in the original description (Brown and Alcala, 1980) are des- ignated "BA" and given after our own observa- tions. Supranasals separated medially (n = 35; BA, apparently always separated, n = ?); pre- frontals usually separated (97.1 percent, n = 35) or rarely in contact (2.9 percent)(BA, apparently always separated, n = ?); parietals separated by interparietal (BA, 100 percent, n = ?); wide nu- chals per side usually one (96.6 percent of 58 cases but rarely none (3.4 percent) or in other words, pairs of large nuchals usually one; post- nasal joined to nasal; supraciliaries usually five (68.2 percent of 63 cases) but sometimes four (27.0 percent) or rarely six (4.8 percent); ante- riormost supraciliary contacts prefrontal (100 percent of 69 cases); primary temporals usually one (92.3 percent of 65 cases) but occasionally two (7.7 percent); secondary temporals in 2S (86.2 percent of 65 cases) or 2C (13.8 percent) configuration (Greer and Broadley, 2000); up- per secondary temporal overlapped by parietal (100 percent of 65 cases); postsupralabials one (100 percent of 66 cases); postmental contacts two infralabials on each side; first pair of large FIGURE 2: Mabuya cumingi (UF 72795) head scales. chin scales in contact; second pair of chin scales Abbreviations are as follows: C - chin scale; F - fron- separated by one scale row, and third pair of tal; FN - frontonasal; FP - frontoparietal; IL - infral- chin scales divided and separated by three scale abial; IP - interparietal; L - loreal; M - mental; N - nasal; NU - nuchal; PF - prefrontal; PM - postmental; rows (Fig. 2). PRO - preocular; PRSO - presubocular; PSL - postsu- The parietal eyespot is faintly evident in nine pralabial; R - rostral; SC - supraciliary; SL - supral- of the 35 specimens, but its occurrence is not abial; SN - supranasal; SO - supraocular; 1º - primary significantly associated with either snout-vent temporal; 2º - secondary temporal. length (Mann-Whitney U = 97.0, P = 0.54, n November, 2004] MORPHOLOGY AND REPRODUCTION IN MABUYA CUMINGI 3 = 34) or sex (Fisher's Exact test, P = 0.41, n = 0.44 + 1.20 log head length with a 95 confidence 29). interval for the slope of + 0.18 ( r2 = 0.92, P < Snout-vent length 20-48.5 mm (mean = 35.9 0.0001, n = 17) and for females is: log snout- mm, n = 34; BA, 39.4-54 mm, n = 26 mature vent length = 0.36 + 1.32 log head length with a specimens); longitudinal scale rows at midbody 95 confidence interval for the slope of + 0.30 (r2 30-32 (mean = 31.5, n = 6; BA, 28-32, n = ?); = 0.88, P = 0.0005, n = 13).
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