Lubuya

Lubuya is a genus of skinks, lizards in the family Scincidae. The genus contains one species, Lubuya ivensii, known commonly as Ivens' skink, Ivens's skink, Ivens's water skink, or the meadow skink, which is native to Southern Africa.

Lubuya
Conservation status
Least Concern  (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Reptilia
Order:	Squamata
Family:	Scincidae
Genus:	Lubuya Horton, 1972
Species:	L. ivensii
Binomial name
Lubuya ivensii (Bocage, 1879)
Synonyms[2]
Euprepes ivensii Bocage, 1879 Mabuia ivensii — Boulenger, 1887 Lygosoma ivensii — Bocage, 1895 Mabuya ivensii — Manaças, 1963 Lubuya ivensii — Horton, 1972 Euprepis ivensii — Mausfeld et al., 2002 Trachylepis ivensii — Bauer, 2003 Lubuya ivensii — Conradie et al., 2016

Etymology

The specific name, ivensii, is in honor of Portuguese explorer Roberto Ivens.^[3]

Geographic range

L. ivensii is found in Angola, southern Democratic Republic of Congo, and northwestern Zambia.^[2]

Reproduction

L. ivensii is viviparous.^[2]

References

1. Conradie, W.; Ceríaco, L.M.P.; Baptista, N. (2020). "Lubuya ivensii ". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2020: e.T120686710A120907468. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2020-3.RLTS.T120686710A120907468.en.
2. Lubuya ivensii at the Reptarium.cz Reptile Database. Accessed 31 August 2018.
3. Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. ISBN 978-1-4214-0135-5. (Lubuya ivensii, p. 131).

Further reading

• Bocage JVB du (1879). "Reptiles et batraciens nouveaux d'Angola ". Jornal de Sciencias Mathematicas, Physicas e Naturaes, Academia Real das Sciencias de Lisboa 7: 97–99. (Euprepes ivensii, new species, pp. 97–98). (in French).
• Boulenger GA (1887). Catalogue of the Lizards in the British Museum (Natural History). Second Edition. Volume III. ... Scincidæ .... London: Trustees of the British Museum (Natural History). (Taylor and Francis, printers). xii + 575 pp. + Plates I–XL. (Mabuia ivensii, p. 197).
• Horton DR (1972). "A New Scincid Genus from Angola". Journal of Herpetology 6 (1): 17–20. (Lubuya, new genus; L. ivensii, new combination).