Trachylepis brauni

Trachylepis brauni
Scientific classification
Kingdom:Animalia
Phylum:Chordata
Class:Reptilia
Order:Squamata
Family:Scincidae
Genus:Trachylepis
Species: T. brauni
Binomial name
Trachylepis brauni
(Tornier, 1902)
Synonyms[1]
  • Mabuia brauni
    Tornier, 1902
  • Mabuya varia brauni
    — Loveridge, 1957
  • Mabuya brauni
    — Meerman, 1984
  • Euprepis brauni
    — Mausfeld et al., 2002
  • Trachylepis brauni
    — Bauer, 2003

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

Etymology

The specific name, brauni, is in honor of German zoologist Rudolf H. Braun (born 1908).[2]

Geographic range

T. brauni is found in southwestern Tanzania.[1]

References

  1. 1 2 Trachylepis brauni 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 brauni, p. 37).

Further reading

  • Tornier G (1902). "Herpetologisch Neues aus Deutsch-Ost-Afrika ". Zoologische Jahrbücher. Abtheilung für Systematik, Geographie und Biologie der Thiere 15: 578-590. (Mabuia brauni, new species, pp. 585–586). (in German).


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