Trachylepis punctulata ( Bocage, 1872 )
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Trachylepis punctulata ( Bocage, 1872)
Material (four specimens): Two adults and one juvenile specimen (MHNCUP/REP 263–265, formerly UP- MHNFCP-095000–095002; Fig. S44 View FIGURE S ), collected from Mossâmedes [= Moçâmedes] [-15.20000º, 12.15000º, 24 m a.s.l.] Namibe Province, in 1905 ; one adult specimen (MHNCUP/REP 278, formerly UP-MHNFCP-017378), collected from Bahia dos Tigres [= Baía dos Tigres] [-16.58559º, 11.82709º, 98 m a.s.l.] Namibe province, date unknown .
Comments: Trachylepis punctulata is known from southwestern Angola ( Marques et al. 2018). Ferreira (1904, 1906) did not publish these specimens, however specimen MHNCUP/REP 278 was labeled as “ Trachylepis acutilabris ”, a misidentification most likely made by himself. Ceríaco et al. (2016a) cited the Newton Expedition specimens as congruent with their collections and commented that the locality “Mossamedes” most likely referred to Namibe Province as a whole, rather than the city. T. punctulata was, for a long time, considered a subspecies of Trachylepis variegata (Peters, 1870) , but a series of studies both on phylogeny and morphological characteristics have established the two taxa as different species ( Portik & Bauer 2012; Bates et al. 2014). Weinell et al. (2019) reported T. punctulata as paraphyletic with respect to T. variegata .
Bates, M. F., Branch, W. R., Bauer, A. M., Burger, M., Marais, J., Alexander, G. J. & de Villiers, M. S. (2014) Atlas and Red List of the Reptiles of South Africa, Lesotho and Swaziland. Suricata 1. South African National Biodiversity Institute, Pretoria, xvii + 485 pp.
Bocage, J. V. B. (1872) Diagnoses de quelques especes nouvelles de reptiles d'Afrique occidentale. Jornal de Sciencias Mathematicas, Physicas e Naturaes, 4, 72 - 82.
Ceriaco, L. M. P., De Sa, S. A. C., Bandeira, S., Valerio, H., Stanley, E. L., Kuhn, A. L., Marques, M. P., Vindum, J. V., Blackburn, D. C. & Bauer, A. M. (2016 a) Herpetological survey of the Iona National Park and Namibe National Park, Angola, with a synoptic list of the amphibians and reptiles of Namibe Province, southwestern Angola. Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences, Series 4, 63 (2), 15 - 61.
Ferreira, J. B. (1904) Reptis e amphibios de Angola da regiao ao norte do Quanza (Colleccao Newton 1903). Jornal de Sciencias Mathematicas Physicas e Naturaes, Segunda Serie, 7 (25), 111 - 117.
Ferreira, J. B. (1906) Algumas especies novas ou pouco conhecidas de amphibios e reptis de Angola (Coleccao Newton - 1903 - 1904). Jornal de Sciencias Mathematicas Physicas e Naturaes, Segunda Serie, 7 (26), 159 - 171.
Marques, M. P., Ceriaco, L. M. P., Blackburn, D. C. & Bauer, A. M. (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, Series 4, 65 (Supplement 2), 1 - 501.
Portik, D. M. & Bauer, A. M. (2012) Untangling the complex: molecular patterns in Trachylepis variegata and T. punctulata (Reptilia: Scincidae). African Journal of Herpetology, 61 (2), 128 - 142. https: // doi. org / 10.1080 / 21564574.2012.721808
Weinell, J. L., Branch, W. R., Colston, T. J., Jackman, T. R., Kuhn, A., Conradie, W. & Bauer, A. M. (2019) A species-level phylogeny of Trachylepis (Scincidae: Mabuyinae) provides insight into their reproductive mode evolution. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 136, 183 - 195. https: // doi. org / 10.1016 / j. ympev. 2019.04.002
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