Trachylepis maculilabris (Gray, 1845)

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 : 171

Trachylepis maculilabris (Gray, 1845)

Material

Mt. Mabu ( PEM R21150 , female, 88.6 mm SVL) .

Comments

One adult female was collected from a transition woodland. Branch et al. (2005) were the first to record this species from northern Mozambique and indicate, based on material used from coastal northern Mozambique ( Carranza et al. 2001) towards the presence of a cryptic species in the north of Mozambique. Our record is the first for Mt. Mabu and fills a large gap between the northern (Lipumbulo floodplain) and the Zambezi Valley records. Records from north of the Zambezi remains scattered to only a handful of records, e.g. Lipumbulo floodplain, Moebase, and Moma (Branch et al. 2005).