Trachylepis hoeschi (Mertens, 1954)

Ceríaco, L. M. P., De Sá, S., Bandeira, S., Valério, H., Stanley, E. L., Kuhn, A. L., Marques, M. P., Vindum, J. V., Blackburn, D. C. & Bauer, A. M., 2016, Herpetological Survey of Iona National Park and Namibe Regional Natural Park, with a Synoptic List of the Amphibians and Reptiles of Namibe Province, Southwestern Angola, Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences 63 (2), pp. 15-61 : 32

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.11066801

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.11104595

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/F67087FF-535C-6D31-FF97-5398ADE2B601

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Felipe

scientific name

Trachylepis hoeschi (Mertens, 1954)
status

 

HOESCH’S SKINK – Fig. 13 View FIGURE

Trachylepis hoeschi (Mertens, 1954) View in CoL

MATERIAL.— Rio Curoca in the Pediva Hot Springs area , 2 December 2013, 16º17ʹ0.93ʺS, 12º33ʹ39.81ʺE, 247 m ( CAS 254851 About CAS ); GoogleMaps NNP, 15º46ʹ25.9ʺS, 12º19ʹ59.0ʺE, 247 m ( CAS 254952 About CAS ) GoogleMaps .

COMMENTS.— The only published Angolan record is from Laurent (1964a), from “Plage das Conchas,” Namibe Province. Our specimens are, respectively, 75 and 135 km SE of Laurent’s site. the Ditsong National Natural History Museum holds a small series of this species (TM 40733–37) from Iona National Park. The Angolan records extend the core distribution of its range in northwestern Namibia ( Branch 1998).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Reptilia

Order

Squamata

Family

Scincidae

Genus

Trachylepis

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