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Lacertaspis reichenowii (PETERS, 1874)

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Higher TaxaScincidae, Eugongylinae (Eugongylini), Scincoidea, Sauria, Squamata (lizards)
Subspecies 
Common Names 
SynonymLygosoma (Mocoa) Reichenowii PETERS 1874: 160
Euprepes Reichenowi — REICHENOW 1874: 294
Lygosoma reichenowii — SCHMIDT 1919: 553
Riopa (Panaspis) reichenovei — SMITH 1937: 229
Leiolopisma reichenovei [sic] — MITTLEMAN 1952
Panaspis reichenowi — GREER 1974: 29
Lacertaspis reihenowi [sic] — FRANK & RAMUS 1995
Leptosiaphos (Lacertaspis) reichenowi — BROADLEY 1989
Panaspis (Lacertaspis) reichenowi — BÖHME & SCHMITZ 1996
Leptosiaphos reichenowi — BROADLEY 1998
Panaspis reichenowi — PAUWELS et al. 2004
Lacertaspis reichenowi — SCHMITZ et al. 2005
Panaspis reichenowi — PAUWELS et al. 2006
Lacertaspis reichenowii — CHAPPLE et al. 2021 
DistributionCameroon (Mt. Cameroon, Dibongo, Bipindi, Efulen, Bitye,
Foulassi, Nkolfep, Akom, Mt. Kupé), C Democratic Republic of the Congo (Zaire), Gabon, Bioko = Fernando Po (Equatorial Guinea), Central African Republic

Type locality: “Cameroongebirge”  
Reproduction 
TypesHolotype: ZMB 8018 
DiagnosisAdditional details, e.g. a detailed description or comparisons (2626 characters), are available for collaborators and contributors. Please contact us for details. 
CommentSynonymy partly after FUHN 1972. Specimens of this species from Musosa, on the Zambian border to Zaire midway between Lakes Tanganyika and Mweru, have been collected by H.J. Bredo in 1939 (Witte 1953). There are no other records from Shaba Province. Broadley (1998) stated that “it seems likely that these specimens werre mislabelled”.

Type species: Lygosoma (Mocoa) Reichenowii PETERS 1874: 160 is the type species of the genus Lacertaspis PERRET 1975.

Distribution: For a map with localities in Equatorial Guinea see SÁNCHEZ-VIALAS et al. 2022.

Reference images: see Uetz et al. 2024 for high-resolution reference images for this species. 
EtymologyNamed after Dr. Anton Reichenow (1847-1941), who dominated German ornithology for many years. He worked at the Zoological Museum, Humboldt-Universitat, Berlin (1874-1921), starting as an Assistant, then becoming Curator of Birds (1888) and Vice Director (1906), succeeding Cabanis (his father-in-law).

The genus was named after Latin Lacerta, lizard genus due to Linnaeus, 1758 + Greek aspis (ἀσπίς), shield. [“…Habitus lacertiforme…”]. 
References
  • Bauer, A.M.; Günther,R. & Klipfel,M. 1995. The herpetological contributions of Wilhelm C.H. Peters (1815-1883). SSAR Facsimile Reprints in Herpetology, 714 pp.
  • Beolens, Bo; Michael Watkins, and Michael Grayson 2011. The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, USA - get paper here
  • Böhme W. & Schmitz A. 1996. A new lygosomine skink (Lacertilia: Scincidae: Panaspis) from Cameroon [description of Panaspis chriswildi]. Revue Suisse de Zoologie 103 (3): 767-774 - get paper here
  • Broadley, D G 1989. A reappraisal of the genus Panaspis Cope, with the description of a new species of Leptosiaphos (Reptilia: Scincidae) from Tanzania. Arnoldia Zimbabwe 9 (32) 1989: 439-449
  • Broadley, D.G. 1998. The reptilian fauna of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (Congo-Kinshasa). In: Schmidt, K.P. and Noble, G.K., Contributions to the Herpetology of the Belgian Congo... [reprint of the 1919 and 1923 papers]. SSAR Facsimile reprints in Herpetology, 780 pp.
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  • Fuhn, I. E. 1972. Révision du Phylum forestier du genre Panaspis Cope (Reptilia, Scincidae, Lygosominae). Rev. roum. Biol., sér Zool., 17 (4): 257-271
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