Trachylepis binotata (Bocage, 1867)

Marques, Mariana P., Parrinha, Diogo, Lopes-Lima, Manuel, Tiutenko, Arthur, Bauer, Aaron M. & Ceríaco, Luis M. P., 2024, An island in a sea of sand: a first checklist of the herpetofauna of the Serra da Neve inselberg, southwestern Angola, ZooKeys 1201, pp. 167-217 : 167-217

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1201.120750
publication LSID	lsid:zoobank.org:pub:23C7E6E7-AE73-4685-AEDA-26DEB0EE0068
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.11196730
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scientific name	Trachylepis binotata (Bocage, 1867)
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Trachylepis binotata (Bocage, 1867) View in CoL

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Records.

Maylowe [- 13.8357, 13.2763, 800 m] ( CAS 266149); 2 km N of Maylowe [- 13.8280, 13.2625, 818 m] ( MUHNAC / MB 03 - 001453, 001454).

Comments.

This large arboreal skink occurs across all southwestern Angola. Trachylepis binotata is usually associated with Mopane woodland habitats and was widely recorded in the country ( Marques et al. 2018; Ceríaco et al. 2024). In our study area, it was only found in the Mopane-dominated localities at the base of the inselberg.

References

Ceríaco LMP, Marques MP, Parrinha D, Tiutenko A, Weinell J, Butler BO, Bauer AM (2024) The Trachylepis (Squamata: Scincidae) of Angola: an integrative taxonomic review with the description of seven new species. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 465 (465): 1 – 153. https://doi.org/10.1206/0003-0090.465.1.1

Marques MP, Ceríaco LMP, Blackburn DC, Bauer AM (2018) Diversity and Distribution of the Amphibians and Terrestrial Reptiles of Angola – Atlas of Historical and Bibliographic Records (1840 – 2017). Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences 4 (65, Supplement II): 1 – 501.

Figures

Figure 8. a Matobosaurus maltzahni b Acontias mukwando c Panaspis sp. 1 d Sepsina copei e Trachylepis albopunctata f Trachylepis ansorgii g Trachylepis binotata h Trachylepis bouri. Photographs by AT (a – c, e – h); LMPC (d).