Trachylepis
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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 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
The following species are recognized as being valid (listed alphabetically by specific name).[4]
- Trachylepis acutilabris (W. Peters, 1862) – wedge-snouted mabuya, wedge-snouted skink, sharp-lipped mabuya
- Trachylepis adamastor Ceríaco, 2015
- Trachylepis affinis (Gray, 1838) – Senegal mabuya
- Trachylepis albilabris (Hallowell, 1857) – white-lipped skink, Guinea mabuya
- Trachylepis albotaeniata (Boettger, 1913)
- Trachylepis angolensis (Monard, 1937)
- Trachylepis atlantica (Schmidt, 1945) – Noronha skink
- Trachylepis aureopunctata (Grandidier, 1867) – gold-spotted mabuya
- Trachylepis bayonii (Bocage, 1872) – 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
- Trachylepis bocagii (Boulenger, 1887) – Bocage's mabuya
- Trachylepis boettgeri (Boulenger, 1887) – Boettger's mabuya
- Trachylepis boulengeri (Sternfeld, 1911) – Boulenger's mabuya
- Trachylepis brauni (Tornier, 1902) – Ukinga Mountain skink
- Trachylepis brevicollis (Wiegmann, 1837) – short-necked skink
- Trachylepis buettneri (Matschie, 1893)
- Trachylepis capensis (Gray, 1831) – Cape skink, Cape three-lined skink
- Trachylepis casuarinae (Broadley, 1974)
- Trachylepis chimbana (Boulenger, 1887) – Chimba skink
- Trachylepis comorensis (W. Peters, 1854) – Comoro Island skink
- Trachylepis cristinae Sindaco et al., 2012
- Trachylepis damarana (Peters, 1870) – Damara skink
- Trachylepis depressa (W. Peters, 1854) – eastern coastal skink
- Trachylepis dichroma R. Günther, Whiting & Bauer, 2005 – two-coloured skink
- Trachylepis dumasi (Nussbaum & Raxworthy, 1995)
- Trachylepis elegans W. Peters, 1854 – smart mabuya, elegant mabuya
- Trachylepis ferrarai (Lanza, 1978) – Ferrara's mabuya
- Trachylepis gonwouoi Allen et al., 2017
- Trachylepis gravenhorstii (A.M.C. Duméril & Bibron, 1839) – Madagascar jungle skink, Gravenhorst's mabuya[5]
- Trachylepis hemmingi (Gans, Laurent & Pandit, 1965) – Somali mabuya
- Trachylepis hildebrandtii (W. Peters, 1874)
- Trachylepis hoeschi (Mertens, 1954) – Hoesch's skink
- Trachylepis homalocephala (Wiegmann, 1828) – red-sided skink
- Trachylepis infralineata (Boettger, 1913)
- Trachylepis irregularis (Lönnberg, 1922) – alpine-meadow skink, alpine meadow mabuya
- Trachylepis keroanensis (Chabanaud, 1921)
- Trachylepis lacertiformis (W. Peters, 1854) – bronze rock skink
- Trachylepis laevigata (Peters, 1869) – variable skink
- Trachylepis laevis (Boulenger, 1907) – Angolan blue-tailed skink
- Trachylepis lavarambo (Nussbaum & Raxworthy, 1998)
- Trachylepis loluiensis Kingdon & Spawls, 2010
- Trachylepis maculata (Gray, 1839)
- Trachylepis maculilabris (Gray, 1845) – speckle-lipped skink, speckle-lipped mabuya
- Trachylepis madagascariensis (Mocquard, 1908) – Malagasy mabuya
- Trachylepis makalowodei Chirio et al., 2008
- Trachylepis margaritifera (W. Peters, 1854) – rainbow mabuya, 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 nancycoutuae (Nussbaum & Raxworthy, 1998) – Nancy Coutu's skink
- Trachylepis nganghae Ineich & Chirio, 2004
- Trachylepis occidentalis (W. Peters, 1867) – western three-striped skink
- Trachylepis ozorii (Bocage, 1893)
- Trachylepis pendeana (Ineich & Chirio, 2000)
- Trachylepis perrotetii (A.M.C. Duméril & Bibron, 1839) – fire-sided skink, Teita mabuya
- Trachylepis planifrons (W. Peters, 1878) – tree skink
- Trachylepis polytropis (Boulenger, 1903) – tropical mabuya
- Trachylepis principensis Ceríaco, Marques & Bauer, 2016
- Trachylepis pulcherrima (de Witte, 1953)
- Trachylepis punctatissima (A. Smith, 1849) – montane speckled skink
- Trachylepis punctulata (Bocage, 1872) – speckled sand skink
- Trachylepis quinquetaeniata (Lichtenstein, 1823) – five-lined mabuya, five-lined skink, rainbow mabuya
- Trachylepis rodenburgi (Hoogmoed, 1974) – Rodenburg's mabuya
- Trachylepis sechellensis (A.M.C. Duméril & Bibron, 1839) – Seychelles skink
- Trachylepis socotrana (W. Peters, 1882)
- Trachylepis sparsa (Mertens, 1954)
- Trachylepis spilogaster (W. Peters, 1882) – Kalahari tree skink, spiny mabuya
- Trachylepis striata (W. Peters, 1844) – African striped mabuya, Africa 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)
- Trachylepis thomensis Ceríaco, Marques & Bauer, 2016
- Trachylepis varia (W. Peters, 1867) – variable mabuya, 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 wingati (F. Werner, 1908)
- Trachylepis wrightii (Boulenger, 1887) – Wright's skink
Nota bene: A binomial authority in parentheses indicates that the species was originally described in a genus other than Trachylepis.
Taxonomy
The species Mabouya punctatissima O'Shaughnessy, 1874 (non A. Smith, 1849) also belongs in this genus, but its exact identity remains unclear.[6]
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. [in French] (2003). "Investigating the origin of transoceanic distributions: mtDNA shows Mabuya lizards (Reptilia, Scincidae) crossed the Atlantic twice". Systematics and Biodiversity. 1 (2): 275–282. doi:10.1017/S1477200003001099. 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.
- ^ 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).
- ^ Mausfeld P, Vrcibradic D (2002). "On the nomenclature of the skink (Mabuya) endemic to the western Atlantic archipelago of Fernando de Noronha, Brazil". Journal of Herpetology 36 (2): 292–295. (subscription required to view).
Further reading
- Fitzinger L (1843). Systema Reptilium, Fasciculus Primus, Amblyglossae. Vienna: Braumüller & Seidel. 106 pp. + indices. (Trachylepis, new genus, p. 22). (in Latin).