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Trachylepis bayonii (BOCAGE, 1872)

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Higher TaxaScincidae, Mabuyinae (Mabuyini), Scincoidea, Sauria, Squamata (lizards)
SubspeciesTrachylepis bayonii bayonii (BOCAGE 1872)
Trachylepis bayonii keniensis LOVERIDGE 1956 
Common NamesE: Bayão’s Skink, Bayon's Mabuya, Bayon’s skink
huilensis: Huila Skink 
SynonymEuprepes Bayonii BOCAGE 1870: 68 (nomen nudum)
Euprepes Bayonii BOCAGE 1872: 75
Mabuia Bayonii — BOULENGER 1887: 201
Mabuya bayoni — GREER et al. 2000
Mabuya bayoni — SPAWLS et al. 2001
Euprepis bayonii — MAUSFELD et al. 2002
Trachylepis bayonii — BAUER 2003
Trachylepis bayonii — SPAWLS et al. 2018: 134
Trachylepis bayoni bayoni — BRANCH et al. 2019
Trachylepis bayonii — CERIACO et al. 2024: 39

Trachylepis bayonii keniensis (LOVERIDGE 1956)
Mabuya bayonii keniensis LOVERIDGE 1956: 2
Mabuya bayonii keniensis — BROADLEY & HOWELL 1991: 15
Mabuya keniensis — CERIACO et al. 2024: 39 
DistributionAngola, Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Republic of South Sudan (RSS)

Type locality: “Duque de Bragança, dans l’intérieur d’Angola” [= Calandula, Malanje Province], Angola.

keniensis: Kenya, Tanzania. Type locality: Northern Uaso Nyiro, Sotik, Kenya.  
Reproductionovovivparous 
TypesSyntypes: BMNH 1946.8.19.13, ZMB 6477 (see Bauer et al., 2003). Other syntypes in MBL presumably lost in the fire that destroyed that collection in 1978.
Holotype: MD 1886 (Museu Dundo, Angola) [huilensis]
Holotype: MCZ R-29662 [keniensis] 
DiagnosisDiagnosis: Ceriaco et al. 2024 
CommentSynonymy: Trachylepis bayonii huilensis (LAURENT 1964) was described from a single juvenile specimen and apparently never investigated later. Marques et al. 2018 preliminarily list it as synonym of T. bayonii but state that it may warrant recognition.

The year of description is sometimes given as “1867”.

Distribution: see map in Ceriaco et al. 2024: 43 (Fig. 23). 
EtymologyNamed after Francisco Antonio Pinheiro Bayão, a Portuguese planter and administrator whose family had settled in Angola in the 17th century where he also collected many specimens. 
References
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  • Bocage, J. V. B. 1872. Diagnoses de quelques espéces nouvelles de Reptiles d'Afrique occidentale. Jorn. Sci. Math. Phys. Nat. Lisboa 4: 72-82. - get paper here
  • Boulenger, G. A. 1887. Catalogue of the lizards in the British Museum (Nat. Hist.) III. Lacertidae, Gerrhosauridae, Scincidae, Anelytropsidae, Dibamidae, Chamaeleontidae. London: 575 pp. - get paper here
  • Branch, William R.; Pedro Vaz Pinto, Ninda Baptista, and Werner Conradie 2019. The Reptiles of Angola: History, Diversity, Endemism and Hotspots. Chapter 13 in: B. J. Huntley et al. (eds.), Biodiversity of Angola. Springer Verlag, pp. 283-334 - get paper here
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  • Butler, B O; Ceríaco, L M P; Marques, M P; Bandeira, S; Júlio, T; Heinicke, M P & Bauer, A M; 2019. Herpetological survey of Huíla Province, Southwest Angola, including first records of Bicuar National Park. Herpetological Review 50 (2): 225-240 - get paper here
  • Ceríaco, Luis M. P.; Mariana P. Marques, Ilunga André, Esteves Afonso, David C. Blackburn & Aaron M. Bauer 2020. ILLUSTRATED TYPE CATALOGUE OF THE “LOST” HERPETOLOGICAL COLLECTIONS OF MUSEU DO DUNDO, ANGOLA. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 162 (7): 379-440 - get paper here
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