Trachylepis bayonii ( Bocage, 1872 )

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 bayonii ( Bocage, 1872)

Material (two specimens): Two adult specimens (MHNCUP/REP 276–277, formerly UP-MHNFCP-018333 and UP-MHNFCP-040727; Fig. S40 ), collected from unknown locality, date unknown.

Comments: Trachylepis bayonii is known from central and southwestern Angola, as well as Democratic Republic of the Congo, Kenya, and Tanzania ( Marques et al. 2018). No specimens of T. bayonii were published by Ferreira. Bocage first described this species in 1872 and distinguished between two variations, A and B, from “Duque de Bragança” [=Kalandula], Malanje Province and from Huíla’s highlands, respectively ( Bocage 1872; Marques et al. 2018). Variety B was later described as Mabuya bayoni huilensis by Laurent (1964).

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FIGURE S40. Specimen of Trachylepis bayonii (MHNCUP/REP 276), from unknown locality. Photo by Bruna Santos.