Chioninia
| Cape Verde mabuyas Temporal range: Late Miocene/Early Pliocene–Recent | |
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| Vaillant's mabuya (Chioninia vaillantii) in the Prague Zoo | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Order: | Squamata |
| Family: | Scincidae |
| Subfamily: | Mabuyinae |
| Genus: | Chioninia Gray, 1845 |
| Species | |
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7 species, see text | |
Chioninia is a genus of skinks, lizards in the subfamily Lygosominae. For long, this genus was included in the "wastebin taxon" Mabuya. The genus Chioninia contains the Cape Verde mabuyas.