Trachylepis maculilabris (Gray, 1845)

Santos, Bruna S., Marques, Mariana P., Bauer, Aaron M. & Ceríaco, Luis M. P., 2021, Herpetological results of Francisco Newton’s Zoological Expedition to Angola (1903 – 1906): a taxonomic revision and new records of a forgotten collection, Zootaxa 5028 (1), pp. 1-80 : 24

Trachylepis maculilabris (Gray, 1845)

Material (one specimen): (MHNCUP/REP 272; Fig. S42 ), collected from unknown locality, date unknown.

Comments: Trachylepis maculilabris is a human commensal species widely spread throughout sub-Saharan Africa that can be found in the northern regions of Angola and in scattered southern localities ( Marques et al. 2018). Ceríaco et al. (2016c) had previously suggested that T. maculilabris constituted a species complex, which was confirmed in a recent phylogenetics study by Allen et al. (2019), with the authors uncovering four distinct lineages. Furthermore, Ceríaco et al. (2014a) noted that Angolan material seems to match the typical form of T. maculilabris and represents its most southwestern populations ( Ceríaco et al. 2016c). Ferreira (1906) reported specimens from “Cambondo” and “Golungo” (adult and juvenile respectively), to which the extant specimen probably corresponds.

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FIGURE S42. Specimen of Trachylepis maculilabris (MHNCUP/REP 272), from unknown locality. Photo by Bruna Santos.