Scincidae

SCINCIDAE
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Mabuya rugifera (Stoliczka, 1870a):

Tiliqua rugifera F. Stoliczka. 1870a. Proc Asiatic Soc. Bengal 1870(4): 105.

Euprepes (Tiliqua) percarinatus var. borneensis W. C. H. Peters. 1871. Monatsber. Königl. Preuss. Akad. Wissensch. Berlin 1871: 572. (type locality: “Sarawak” [in East Malaysia; Borneo]; MSNG 28107 [holotype; fide Capocaccia, 1961].)

Mabuia rugifera G. A. Boulenger. 1887. Cat. Lizards British Mus. III: 184.

Mabuya rugifera E. Bartlett. 1895. J. Str. Br. Royal Asiatic Soc. (28): 88.

Mabuia rubricollis E. Bartlett. 1895. J. Str. Br. Roy. Asiat. Soc. 1895(28): 89. (type locality: “Kuching” [in Sarawak, East Malaysia; Borneo]; BMNH RR 1946.8.18.22-24 [formerly BMNH 1934.10.6.1-3]; syntypes. Additional syntypes untraced, and cannot be found in the SM [see Smith, 1931].)

Mabuya rugifera T. Barbour. 1912. Mem. Mus. Comp. Zool. 44(1): 183.

Mabuia rugifera N. De Rooij. 1915. Reptiles Indo-Australian Arch. 1: 160.

Mabuya rugifera K. R. G. Welch, P. S. Cooke & A. S. Wright. 1990. Lizards Orient: 88.

Mabuya rugifera F. L. Tan. 1993. Checklist Lizards Borneo: 7.

Type locality: ZSI 2350 (holotype), "Nicobars" (in the Bay of Bengal, India). In the purported formal description of the species in Stoliczka, 1870b (see Das, 2000), the type locality is given as "Camorta (Nicobars)" (08º 08’N; 93º 30’E, in the Bay of Bengal, India).

Distribution: Nicobar Islands of India, the Malay Peninsula, Sumatra, Borneo, Java and Bali (Manthey and Grossmann, 1997: 274; Welch et al., 1990: 88).

Localities in Borneo: SARAWAK: Kuching, First Division (Brown, 1902; De Rooij, 1915: 161), Mount Matang, First Division (De Rooij, 1915: 161; based on BMNH 72.2.19.19); Baram, Gunung Gading (Smith, 1925b); Tubau Camp, Sungei Pesu, Fourth Division (MVZ 111849); Subis Forest Reserve, Niah, Fourth Division (KU 155809); Nanga Tekalit on Mengiong River (AMNH 11908); BRUNEI: Gadong (UBD 679); Jalan Manggis Dua, Bandar Seri Begawan (UBD 553); Kampung Kenua, Temburong District (BM 93/143); in addition, one uncatalogued specimen in BM from “Brunei” (without additional data); SABAH: Sepilok Forest Reserve (Hikida and Ota, 1987); Taman Pulau Tiga (SP 06477, 80-1, 83-84, 91, 95-96, 98; SP 06568); Tawau Hills Park (SP 06288-90). Also “Sarawak” (BMNH 95.2.28.7-10)

Derivation: Latin for (bearing) rough (scales).

Remarks: Allocated to the genus Dasamia by Horton (1973), along with Mabuya multicarinata (Gray, 1845), with a distribution over the Philippines and the north-eastern coast of Borneo (see Fig. 3 in Horton, 1973). Greer (1977) returned these species to Mabuya Fitzinger, 1826. Das (2000) showed that the description of Tiliqua rugifera was validly published in Stoliczka (1870a), rather than in Stoliczka (1870c), as mentioned by most workers (e.g., Boulenger, 1887: 184; 1890: 190; Smith, 1935: 273).