Trachylepis polytropis (Boulenger, 1903)

Lobón-Rovira, Javier, Lobón-Rovira, Baptista, Ninda L, Clark, Tyron, Verburgt, Luke, Jongsma, Gregory Fm, Conradie, Werner, and, Luis Veríssimo, Vaz, Pedro & Pinto, 2025, Filling the gaps: herpetological checklist of Mayombe National Park and Cabinda Province (Angola) shed light on one of the most unexplored corners of tropical Central Africa, African Journal of Herpetology 74 (1), pp. 1-59 : 1-59

publication ID

https://doi.org/10.1080/21564574.2024.2421007

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15634399

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03E787B8-FF9E-B73E-FF71-32B7FC9E9E63

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scientific name

Trachylepis polytropis (Boulenger, 1903)
status

 

Trachylepis polytropis (Boulenger, 1903) View in CoL

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Material. ANGOLA – Cabinda Province • Mayombe NP, Mbundu; –4.6875, 12.4981; 127 m a.s.l.; FKH 1270 ; GenBank: PQ456023 GoogleMaps .

Identification. A medium-sized skink (max. SVL = 96 mm). Dorsum brown with dark wavy transverse stripes and two black lateral bands running from the snout to the tail, bordered ventro-laterally by a white to yellow stripe. Venter bluish, becoming yellow on the throat. The specimen reported here differs by 1.8% (16S p -distance) from specimens collected near the type locality at Monts Doudou , Gabon (GenBank: KY683558 View Materials ).

Biology and distribution. The species is typically associated with the great Central African forest block, where the species can be found on the leaf litter, dead trees and roots on soil and dead tree trunks ( Chirio et al. 2008). This record represents the first country record for the species. The collected specimen was found active on a rotten trunk of a fallen tree on the forest floor, in Lower Mayombe.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Squamata

Family

Scincidae

Genus

Trachylepis

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