Mabuya zuliae Miralles, Rivas, Bonillo, Schargel, Barros, García-Pérez & Barrio-Amorós 2009: 605

Rivas, Gilson A., Sibira, Luis E. & Barros, Tito R., 2022, Catalogue of Type Specimens in the amphibians and reptiles collection of the Museo de Biología, Universidad del Zulia (MBLUZ), Maracaibo, Venezuela, Anartia (Oxford, England) 35, pp. 14-21 : 19

Mabuya zuliae Miralles, Rivas, Bonillo, Schargel, Barros, García-Pérez & Barrio-Amorós 2009: 605 .

Paratypes (three specimens, all from Venezuela) : MBLUZ 190 (female), Aractogba, Barí indigenous community, Serranía de Abusanki , Sierra de Perijá, municipio Machiques, estado Zulia, Venezuela [09º 34’ 32” N, 72º 55’ 15” W], 175 m asl. [10 August 1989 by Tito Rafael Barros ] . MBLUZ 254 (female), Frontalia, Río de Oro , municipio Catatumbo, estado Zulia, Venezuela , 75 m asl. [31 May 1990 by Tito Rafael Barros ] . MBLUZ 737 (male), Embalse de [Pueblo Viejo], [Parque Natural] Burro Negro, municipio Lagunillas , estado Zulia, Venezuela [10°10’58.0” N, 71°02’42.3” W], 60 m asl. [March 2003 by Alfredo Montilla ] .

Remarks: MBLUZ 254 was sent in exchange to UTA, now it is catalogued as UTA 56691; MBLUZ 190 was sent in exchange to EBRG, now it is catalogued as EBRG 5131 ( Camargo & Bisbal 2016). Hedges & Conn (2012) erected the new genus Maracaiba to place this species, together with M. meridensis Miralles, Rivas & Schargel, 2005 . MBLUZ 737 was not properly handled when collected and its abdomen is broken (open). Its viscera are everted, as they were at the moment of preservation.