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Scientific classification
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Order: | Squamata |
| Family: | Scincidae |
| Subfamily: | Mabuyinae |
| Genus: |
Trachylepis Fitzinger, 1843 |
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Trachylepis is a skink genus in the subfamily Mabuyinae found mainly in Africa. Its members were formerly included in the " wastebin taxon" Mabuya, and for some time in Euprepis. As defined today, Trachylepis contains the clade of Afro-Malagasy mabuyas. The genus also contains a species from the Brazilian island of Fernando de Noronha, T. atlantica, and may occur in mainland South America with Trachylepis tschudii and Trachylepis maculata, both poorly known and enigmatic. [1] The ancestors of T. atlantica are believed to have rafted across the Atlantic from Africa during the last 9 million years. [2]
The generic name Trachylepis literally means "rough-scaled", referring to the fact that most of the species, though superficially smooth-scaled, have three or more slight longitudinal keels on their dorsal scales. [3]
Species
The following species are recognized as being valid (listed alphabetically by specific name). [4] [5]
- Trachylepis acutilabris ( W. Peters, 1862) – wedge-snouted skink, sharp-lipped mabuya
- Trachylepis adamastor Ceríaco, 2015 – Adamastor skink
- Trachylepis affinis ( Gray, 1838) – Senegal mabuya
- Trachylepis albilabris ( Hallowell, 1857) – Guinea mabuya
- Trachylepis albotaeniata ( Boettger, 1913) – Pemba Island mabuya
- Trachylepis atlantica ( Schmidt, 1945) – Noronha skink
- Trachylepis aureogularis (Muller, 1885) – Guinea mabuya, orange-throated skink
- Trachylepis aureopunctata ( Grandidier, 1867) – gold-spotted mabuya
- Trachylepis bayonii ( Bocage, 1872) – Bayão’s skink, Bayon's skink, Bayon's mabuya
- Trachylepis bensonii (W. Peters, 1867) – Benson's mabuya
- Trachylepis betsileana ( Mocquard, 1906) – Betsileo mabuya
- Trachylepis binotata (Bocage, 1867) – Ovambo tree skink, Bocage's mabuya
- Trachylepis bocagii ( Boulenger, 1887) – Bocage's skink
- Trachylepis boehmei Koppetsch, 2020 – Böhme's grass skink
- Trachylepis boettgeri (Boulenger, 1887) – Boettger's mabuya
- Trachylepis boulengeri ( Sternfeld, 1911) – Boulenger's mabuya
- Trachylepis brauni ( Tornier, 1902) – Braun's mabuya
- Trachylepis brevicollis ( Wiegmann, 1837) – short-necked skink, Sudan mabuya
- Trachylepis buettneri ( Matschie, 1893)
- Trachylepis capensis (Gray, 1831) – Cape skink, Cape three-lined skink
- Trachylepis casuarinae ( Broadley, 1974) – Casuarina Island skink
- Trachylepis chimbana (Boulenger, 1887) – Chimba skink, Chimban mabuya
- Trachylepis comorensis (W. Peters, 1854) – Comoro Island skink
- Trachylepis cristinae Sindaco et al., 2012 – Abd Al Kuri skink
- Trachylepis damarana (W. Peters, 1870) – Damara skink
- Trachylepis depressa (W. Peters, 1854) – eastern sand skink
- Trachylepis dichroma R. Günther, Whiting & Bauer, 2005 – two-coloured skink
- Trachylepis dumasi ( Nussbaum & Raxworthy, 1995)
- Trachylepis elegans W. Peters, 1854 – elegant mabuya
- Trachylepis ferrarai ( Lanza, 1978) – Ferrara's mabuya
- Trachylepis gonwouoi Allen et al., 2017 – Gonwouo’s skink
- Trachylepis gravenhorstii ( A.M.C. Duméril & Bibron, 1839) – Gravenhorst's mabuya [6]
- Trachylepis hemmingi ( Gans, Laurent & Pandit, 1965) – Somali mabuya
- Trachylepis hildebrandtii (W. Peters, 1874) – Hildebrandt’s skink
- Trachylepis hoeschi ( Mertens, 1954) – Hoesch's mabuya
- Trachylepis homalocephala (Wiegmann, 1828) – red-sided skink
- Trachylepis infralineata (Boettger, 1913)
- Trachylepis irregularis ( Lönnberg, 1922) – alpine meadow mabuya
- Trachylepis keroanensis ( Chabanaud, 1921) – Teita mabuya
- Trachylepis lacertiformis (W. Peters, 1854) – bronze rock skink
- Trachylepis laevigata (Peters, 1869) – variable skink, striped-neck variable skink
- Trachylepis laevis (Boulenger, 1907) – Angolan blue-tailed skink
- Trachylepis langheldi ( Sternfeld, 1917) – Langheld's skink
- Trachylepis lavarambo (Nussbaum & Raxworthy, 1998)
- Trachylepis loluiensis Kingdon & Spawls, 2010 – Loloui Island skink
- Trachylepis maculata (Gray, 1839) – spotted mabuya
- Trachylepis maculilabris (Gray, 1845) – speckle-lipped skink, speckle-lipped mabuya
- Trachylepis madagascariensis (Mocquard, 1908) – Malagasy mabuya
- Trachylepis makolowodei Chirio et al., 2008 – Makolowodé's trachylepis
- Trachylepis margaritifera (W. Peters, 1854) – rainbow skink
- Trachylepis megalura (W. Peters, 1878) – grass-top skink, long-tailed skink
- Trachylepis mekuana (Chirio & Ineich, 2000)
- Trachylepis mlanjensis ( Loveridge, 1953) – Mulanje skink
- Trachylepis monardi (Monard, 1937) – Monard’s skink
- Trachylepis nancycoutuae (Nussbaum & Raxworthy, 1998)
- Trachylepis nganghae Ineich & Chirio, 2004
- Trachylepis occidentalis (W. Peters, 1867) – western three-striped skink
- Trachylepis ozorii (Bocage, 1893)
- Trachylepis paucisquamis (Hoogmoed, 1978) – tropical mabuya
- Trachylepis pendeana (Ineich & Chirio, 2000)
- Trachylepis perrotetii (A.M.C. Duméril & Bibron, 1839) – Teita mabuya, African red-sided skink
- Trachylepis planifrons (W. Peters, 1878) – tree skink
- Trachylepis polytropis (Boulenger, 1903) – tropical mabuya
- Trachylepis pulcherrima ( de Witte, 1953) – beautiful skink
- Trachylepis punctatissima ( A. Smith, 1849) – montane speckled skink, speckled rock skink
- Trachylepis punctulata (Bocage, 1872) – speckled sand skink, speckled skink
- Trachylepis quinquetaeniata ( Lichtenstein, 1823) – African five-lined skink, rainbow mabuya
- Trachylepis raymondlaurenti Marques, Ceríaco, Bandeira, Pauwels & Bauer, 2019 – Laurent's long-tailed skink
- Trachylepis rodenburgi ( Hoogmoed, 1974) – Rodenburg's mabuya
- Trachylepis sechellensis (A.M.C. Duméril & Bibron, 1839) – Seychelles mabuya
- Trachylepis socotrana (W. Peters, 1882) – Socotra skink
- Trachylepis sparsa (Mertens, 1954) – Karasburg tree skink
- Trachylepis spilogaster (W. Peters, 1882) – Kalahari tree skink, spiny mabuya
- Trachylepis striata (W. Peters, 1844) – African striped mabuya, striped skink
- Trachylepis sulcata (W. Peters, 1867) – western rock skink
- Trachylepis tandrefana (Nussbaum, Raxworthy & Ramanamanjato, 1999)
- Trachylepis tavaratra (Ramanamanjato, Nussbaum & Raxworthy, 1999)
- Trachylepis tessellata ( Anderson, 1895) – tessellated mabuya
- Trachylepis thomensis Ceríaco, Marques & Bauer, 2016
- Trachylepis varia (W. Peters, 1867) – variable skink
- Trachylepis variegata (W. Peters, 1870) – variegated skink
- Trachylepis vato (Nussbaum & Raxworthy, 1994) – boulder mabuya
- Trachylepis vezo (Ramanamanjato, Nussbaum & Raxworthy, 1999)
- Trachylepis volamenaloha (Nussbaum, Raxworthy & Ramanamanjato, 1999)
- Trachylepis wahlbergii (Peters, 1870) – Wahlberg's striped skink
- Trachylepis wingati ( F. Werner, 1908) – Wingate’s skink
- Trachylepis wrightii (Boulenger, 1887) –Wright's skink, Wright's mabuya
Nota bene: A binomial authority in parentheses indicates that the species was originally described in a genus other than Trachylepis.
References
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- ^ Miralles A, Chaparro JC, Harvey MB (2009). "Three rare and enigmatic South American skinks". Zootaxa 2012: 47–68.
- ^ Carranza, S.; Arnold, E.N. (2003). "Investigating the origin of transoceanic distributions: mtDNA shows Mabuya lizards (Reptilia, Scincidae) crossed the Atlantic twice". Systematics and Biodiversity. 1 (2): 275–282. Bibcode: 2003SyBio...1..275C. doi: 10.1017/S1477200003001099. S2CID 55799145. Retrieved 2008-04-04.
- ^ Jaeger, Edmund Carroll (1959). A Source-Book of Biological Names and Terms. Springfield, Illinois: Charles C. Thomas. 360 pp. ISBN 0-398-06179-3.
- ^ Trachylepis. The Reptile Database. www.reptile-database.org.
- ^ Koppetsch, Thore (2020-10-05). "A new species of Trachylepis (Squamata: Scincidae) from the Amhara Region, Ethiopia, and a key to the Ethiopian Trachylepis". Zootaxa. 4859 (1): 113–126. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.4859.1.4. ISSN 1175-5334. PMID 33056207. S2CID 222841954.
- ^ 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. (Mabuya gravenhorstii, p. 106).
Further reading
- Fitzinger L (1843). Systema Reptilium, Fasciculus Primus, Amblyglossae. Vienna: Braumüller & Seidel. 106 pp. + indices. (Trachylepis, new genus, p. 22). (in Latin).