Trachylepis striata (Peters, 1844)

Conradie, Werner, Bittencourt-Silva, Gabriela B., Engelbrecht, Hanlie M., Loader, Simon P., Menegon, Michele, Nanvonamuquitxo, Cristovao, Scott, Michael & Tolley, Krystal A., 2016, Exploration into the hidden world of Mozambique's sky island forests: new discoveries of reptiles and amphibians, Zoosystematics and Evolution 92 (2), pp. 163-180 : 172

publication ID

https://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zse.92.9948

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:9DA068DA-B881-4091-99FE-252D31DDC7D1

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/3DB237C6-C9E4-51BA-7FC1-869183A6A767

treatment provided by

Zoosystematics and Evolution by Pensoft

scientific name

Trachylepis striata (Peters, 1844)
status

 

Trachylepis striata (Peters, 1844)

Material

Mt. Namuli ( PEM R21172 View Materials , male, 71.1 mm SVL; PEM R21173 View Materials , male, 67.7 mm SVL) .

Comments

Specimen was collected from the lower slopes of Mt. Namuli running on granite rocky outcrops. Common and widespread species in southern Africa, but only recorded from Niassa (Branch et al. 2005), Namuli and Lichinga ( Portik et al. 2013a), Mossuril and Mozambique Island ( Blake 1965) in northern Mozambique.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Reptilia

Order

Squamata

Family

Scincidae

Genus

Trachylepis