Trachylepis bayonii

Trachylepis bayonii
Scientific classification
Kingdom:Animalia
Phylum:Chordata
Class:Reptilia
Order:Squamata
Family:Scincidae
Genus:Trachylepis
Species: T. bayonii
Binomial name
Trachylepis bayonii
(Bocage, 1872)
Synonyms[1]
  • Euprepes bayonii
    Bocage, 1872
  • Mabuia bayonii
    — Boulenger, 1887
  • Mabuya bayonii
    — Greer et al., 2000
  • Trachylepis bayonii
    — Bauer, 2003

Trachylepis bayonii is a species of skink, a lizard in the family Scincidae. The species is endemic to Africa.

Etymology

The specific name, bayonii, is in honor of Francisco Antonio Pinheiro Bayão, who was a Portuguese planter in Angola.[2]

Geographic range

T. bayonii is found in Angola, Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda.[1]

Subspecies

Three subspecies are recognized as being valid, including the nominotypical subspecies.[1]

  • Trachylepis bayonii bayonii (Bocage, 1872)
  • Trachylepis bayonii huilensis (Laurent, 1964)
  • Trachylepis bayonii keniensis (Loveridge, 1956)

Nota bene: A trinomial authority in parentheses indicates that the subspecies was originally described in a genus other than Trachylepis.

References

  1. 1 2 3 Trachylepis bayonii at the Reptarium.cz Reptile Database. Accessed 16 September 2015.
  2. ↑ 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. (Trachylepis bayonii, p. 20).

Further reading

  • Bocage JV (1872). "Diagnoses de quelques espèces nouvelles de Reptiles d'Afrique occidentale ". Jornal de Sciencias Mathematicas, Physicas e Naturaes, Academia Real de Sciencias de Lisboa 4: 72-82. (Euprepes bayonii, new species, p. 75). (in French).
  • Boulenger GA (1887). Catalogue of the Lizards in the British Museum (Natural History). Second Edition. Volume III. ... Scincidæ ... London: Trustees of the British Museum (Natural History). (Taylor and Francis, printers). xii + 575 pp. + Plates I-XL. (Mabuia bayonii, new combination, p. 201).
  • Laurent RF (1964). "Reptiles et batraciens de l'Angola (troisième note) ". Companhia de Diamantes de Angola (Diamang), Serviços Culturais, Museu do Dundo (Angola) (67): 165. (Mabuya bayonii huilensis, new subspecies). (in French).


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