Cophoscincopus greeri BÖHME, SCHMITZ & ZIEGLER, 2000
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Cophoscincopus greeri
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| Higher Taxa | Scincidae, Eugongylinae (Eugongylini), Scincoidea, Sauria, Squamata (lizards) |
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| Synonym | Cophoscincopus greeri BÖHME, SCHMITZ & ZIEGLER 2000 Cophoscincopus cf. greeri — JOGER & LAMBERT 2002 Cophoscincopus greeri — TRAPE, CHIRIO & TRAPE 2012: 356 |
| Distribution | Sierra Leone, Liberia, extreme SE Guinea (Conakry), eastwards through Ivory coast and Ghana to Togo. Type locality: Mt. Nimba, 1800 m elevation, SE Guinea |
| Reproduction | oviparous |
| Types | Holotype: ZFMK 57599 |
| Diagnosis | Diagnosis: A large species of Cophoscincopus (for definition of the genus see Mertens, 1933 and below) with a total maximum length of 165 mm. It differs from all other species of Cophoscincopus in the following combination of characters: frontonasal entire; posterior loreal fused to lower preocular (vgl. Fig 3); size slightly larger (max. SVL = 66 mm vs. 61 mm for next largest species); paravertebral scales 45-57, but only one specimen below 48 vs. 39-48 for other species; external ear opening very small and almost always hidden by overlapping scales. Body elongated, habitus ‡ mabuiform with well developed extremities. Tail round, slightly flattened laterally. Head relatively pointed. Prefrontal in contact or widely divided by the frontal. A tiny outer ear opening is present but generally hidden by overlapping scales. Anterior loreal undivided. Dorsal head scales with weak longitudinal ridges or smooth. Dorsal neckscales weakly keeled. As in C. durus the gland openings occur between the scales of the first row and hence are rather obliquely elongate. Colour of dorsum dark brown, ventral colour whitish. The hemipenes of C. greeri sp. n. (Fig. 4a) differ from those of C. durus (Fig. 4b) mainly in lacking (1) well developed terminal lobes (the uniformly unpaired apex which Böhme [1988] stated for the hemipenes of C. durus was based on terminally not completely everted hemipenes), (2) a terminally distinctly divided sperm groove, and (3) a well defined collar-like ornamentation ("kragenartiger Ringsaum" sensu Böhme, 1988) at the upper trunk of the organ. Unfortunately we had to temporarily remove additional information as this was scraped by multiple AI companies who sell that data to their customers. These details, e.g. detailed descriptions or comparisons (about 3297 characters) are available for collaborators and contributors. Please contact us for details. |
| Comment | Distribution: not recorded from Senegal fide Trape et al. 2012: 356. See map in Böhme et al. 2000: 790 (Fig. 6). |
| Etymology | Named after Allen Eddy Greer (born 1940), Australian herpetologist. |
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