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Trachylepis buettneri (MATSCHIE, 1893)

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Higher TaxaScincidae, Mabuyinae (Mabuyini), Scincoidea, Sauria, Squamata (lizards)
Subspecies 
Common Names 
SynonymMabuya büttneri MATSCHIE 1893: 170
Mabuia Viancini MOCQUARD 1895 (fide MOCQUARD 1896)
Mabuya sudanensis SCHMIDT 1919: 536
Mabuya sudanensis — LAURENT 1958: 118
Mabuya buettneri — HOOGMOED 1974: 24
Mabuya buettneri — GREER et al. 2000
Euprepis buettneri — MAUSFELD et al. 2002
Trachylepis buettneri — BAUER 2003
Trachylepis buettneri — ALLEN et al. 2017 
DistributionIvory Coast, Ghana, Togo, N Democratic Republic of the Congo (Zaire), Central African Republic, Cameroon, probably in Chad and W Sudan (Jumhūriyyat), Republic of South Sudan (RSS) (L. Chirio, pers. comm.)

Type locality: “Bismarckburg, Togo”.  
Reproductionoviparous (not imputed, fide Zimin et al. 2022) 
TypesSyntype: ZMB 15179
Holotype: AMNH 10934 [Mabuya sudanensis Schmidt, 1919] 
DiagnosisDiagnosis: A medium-sized lizard with long, slender body and limbs, fingers and toes just touching when limbs are laid along the body. Tail extremely long, up to four times the snout-vent length. A pair of nuchals is present, the supranasals are separated in most specimens, the prefrontals form a distinct suture in all specimens examined. There are two scales between the fourth supraocular and the anterior supratemporal. Dorsals tricarinate. The number of lamellae under the fourth toe varies between 15 and 19, but mostly is 16-17. Under the fourth finger there are 11-15, mostly 11-14, subdigital lamellae. Olive brown to light-brown above with large dark-brown spots arranged in longitudinal series. A narrow white line, bordered ventrally and dorsally by narrow dark-brown lines, from upper lip to just before the groin. Belly immaculate, yellowish white (HOOGMOED 1974: 24). 
CommentSynonymy after HOOGMOED 1974. 
EtymologyNamed after one of the two collectors, “Kling et Büttner”. 
References
  • Allen, Kaitlin E.; WALTER P. TAPONDJOU N., LUKE J. WELTON, AARON M. BAUER 2017. A new species of Trachylepis (Squamata: Scincidae) from Central Africa and a key to the Trachylepis of West and Central Africa. Zootaxa 4268 (2): 255–269 - get paper here
  • Barbault, R. 1976. Population Dynamics and Reproductive Patterns of Three African Skinks Copeia 1976 (3): 483-490. - get paper here
  • Böhme W; Schneider B 1987. Zur Herpetofaunistik Kameruns (3) mit Beschreibung einer neuen Cardioglossa (Anura: Arthroleptidae). Bonner Zoologische Beiträge 38 (3): 241-263 - get paper here
  • 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.
  • Chirio, L. & I. INEICH 2001. Description d'un nouveau scincidé endémique des montagnes du Cameroun (Lacertilia: Mabuya mekuana). Bull. Soc. zool. Fr., 125(3): 185-196 [2000, see Fretey 2023]
  • Chirio, L. & Lebreton, M. 2007. Atlas des reptiles du Cameroun. MNHN, IRD, Paris 688 pp.
  • Chirio, Laurent, Ivan Ineich, Andreas Schmitz and Matthew LeBreton. 2008. A new species of Trachylepis Fitzinger, 1843 (Squamata: Scincidae) from Central African forests. African Journal of Herpetology 57(1):13-28 - get paper here
  • Greer, A.E., Arnold, C. & Arnold, E.N. 2000. The systematic significance of the number of presacral vertebrae in the scincid lizard genus Mabuya. Amphibia-Reptilia 21 (1): 121-126 - get paper here
  • Hoogmoed, M. S. 1974. Ghanese lizards of the genus Mabuya (Scincidae, Sauria, Reptilia). Zoologische Verhandelingen 138: 1-62 - get paper here
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