Trachylepis

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Afro-Malagasy mabuyas
Trachylepis striata
Trachylepis maculilabris mating
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia (paraphyletic)
Order: Squamata
Suborder: Lacertilia
Family: Scincidae
Subfamily: Lygosominae
Genus: Trachylepis
(Fitzinger, 1843)
Species

About 70, see text

African Striped Skink (Trachylepis striata, Kruger Park)
White-lipped Skink (Trachylepis albilabris), Gabon

Trachylepis is a skink genus in the subfamily Lygosominae 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

Listed alphabetically.[4]

  • Trachylepis acutilabris – Wedge-snouted Mabuya, Wedge-snouted Skink, Sharp-lipped Mabuya
  • Trachylepis affinis – Senegal Mabuya
  • Trachylepis albilabris – White-lipped Skink, Guinea Mabuya
  • Trachylepis angolensis
  • Trachylepis atlantica – Noronha Skink
  • Trachylepis aurata – Levant Skink, Golden Grass Mabuya
  • Trachylepis aureopunctata – Gold-spotted Mabuya
  • Trachylepis bayonii – Bayon's Skink, Bayon's Mabuya
  • Trachylepis bensonii – Benson's Mabuya
  • Trachylepis betsileana – Betsileo Mabuya
  • Trachylepis binotata – Ovambo Tree Skink
  • Trachylepis bocagii – Bocage's Mabuya
  • Trachylepis boettgeri – Boettger's Mabuya
  • Trachylepis boulengeri – Boulenger's Mabuya
  • Trachylepis brauni – Ukinga Mountain Skink
  • Trachylepis brevicollis – Short-necked Skink
  • Trachylepis breviparietalis – Chabanaud's Mabuya
  • Trachylepis buettneri
  • Trachylepis capensis – Cape Skink, Cape Three-lined Skink
  • Trachylepis chimbana – Chimba Skink
  • Trachylepis comorensis – Comoro Island Skink
  • Trachylepis depressa – Eastern Coastal Skink
  • Trachylepis dichroma – Two-coloured Skink
  • Trachylepis dumasi
  • Trachylepis elegans – Smart Mabuya, Elegant Mabuya
  • Trachylepis ferrarai – Ferrara's Mabuya
  • Trachylepis gravenhorstii – Madagascar Jungle Skink, Gravenhorst's Mabuya
  • Trachylepis hemmingi – Somali Mabuya
  • Trachylepis hildae
  • Trachylepis hildebrandtii
  • Trachylepis hoeschi – Hoesch's Skink
  • Trachylepis homalocephala – Red-sided Skink
  • Trachylepis irregularis – Alpine-meadow Skink, Alpine Meadow Mabuya
  • Trachylepis ivensii
  • Trachylepis lacertiformis – Bronze Rock Skink
  • Trachylepis laevis – Angolan Blue-tailed Skink
  • Trachylepis lavarambo
  • Trachylepis maculata
  • Trachylepis maculilabris – Speckle-lipped Skink, Speckle-lipped Mabuya
  • Trachylepis madagascariensis – Malagasy Mabuya
  • Trachylepis margaritifera – Rainbow Mabuya, "rainbow skink"
  • Trachylepis megalura – Grass-top Skink, Long-tailed Skink
  • Trachylepis mekuana
  • Trachylepis mlanjensis – Mulanje Skink
  • Trachylepis nancycoutuae – Nancy Coutu's Skink
  • Trachylepis nganghae
  • Trachylepis occidentalis – Western Three-striped Skink
  • Trachylepis pendeana
  • Trachylepis perrotetii – Fire-sided Skink, Teita Mabuya
  • Trachylepis planifrons – Tree Skink
  • Trachylepis polytropis – Tropical Mabuya
  • Trachylepis punctatissima – Montane Speckled Skink
  • Trachylepis punctulata – Speckled Sand Skink
  • Trachylepis quinquetaeniata – Five-lined Mabuya, "five-lined skink", Rainbow Mabuya
  • Trachylepis rodenburgi – Rodenburg's Mabuya
  • Trachylepis septemtaeniata
  • Trachylepis seychellensis – Seychelles Skink
  • Trachylepis socotrana
  • Trachylepis sparsa
  • Trachylepis spilogaster – Kalahari Tree Skink, Spiny Mabuya
  • Trachylepis striata – African Striped Mabuya, Africa Striped Skink
  • Trachylepis sulcata – Western Rock Skink
  • Trachylepis tandrefana
  • Trachylepis tavaratra
  • Trachylepis tschudii
  • Trachylepis tessellata
  • Trachylepis varia – Variable Mabuya, "variable skink"
  • Trachylepis variegata – Variegated Skink
  • Trachylepis vato – Boulder Mabuya
  • Trachylepis vezo
  • Trachylepis vittata – Bridled Mabuya, Bridled Skink
  • Trachylepis volamenaloha
  • Trachylepis wingati
  • Trachylepis wrightii – Wright's Skink

The species Mabouya punctatissima also belongs in this genus, but its exact identity remains unclear.[5]

References

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  1. ↑ Miralles, A., Chaparro, J.C. and Harvey, M.B. 2009. Three rare and enigmatic South American skinks. Zootaxa 2012:47–68.
  2. ↑ Carranza, S.; Arnold, N. E. (2003-08-05). "Investigating the origin of transoceanic distributions: mtDNA shows Mabuya lizards (Reptilia, Scincidae) crossed the Atlantic twice". Systematics and Biodiversity (Cambridge University Press) 1 (2): 275–282. doi:10.1017/S1477200003001099. Retrieved 2008-04-04. 
  3. ↑ Jaeger, Edmund Carroll (1959). A source-book of biological names and terms. Springfield, Ill: Thomas. ISBN 0-398-06179-3. 
  4. ↑ Trachylepis, The Reptile Database
  5. ↑ Mausfeld, P. and Vrcibradic, D. 2002. On the nomenclature of the skink (Mabuya) endemic to the western Atlantic archipelago of Fernando de Noronha, Brazil (subscription required). Journal of Herpetology 36(2):292–295.
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