Mochlus striatus (HALLOWELL, 1854)

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Higher Taxa	Scincidae, Lygosominae (Lygosomini), Scincoidea, Sauria, Squamata (lizards)
Subspecies
Common Names
Synonym	Euprepis striata HALLOWELL 1854: 98 Euprepes (Tiliqua) elegans FISCHER 1883 (preoccupied by Euprepis elegans PETERS 1854) Euprepes leoninus FISCHER 1884 (nom. nov. pro E. elegans FISCHER 1883) Lepidothyris striatus — WAGNER et al. 2009 Mochlus striatus — FREITAS et al. 2019
Distribution	Gabon (corrected type locality fide Hallowell 1860; IRSNB 16897; USNM 561500; Pauwels et al. 2002), Cameroon (ZMH R08219), Congo (Brazzaville) (RM 4671, 4672), Central African Republic (Chirio & Ineich 2006; MNHN 1997.3100, 1997.3101) and probably the Democratic Republic of the Congo (Zaire), Equatorial Guinea Type locality: Liberia (in error), western coast of Africa. corrected by HALLOWELL 1860 to “Gabon”. elegans: Type locality: Sierra Leone. leoninus: Type locality: Sierra Leone.
Reproduction	oviparous (not imputed, fide Zimin et al. 2022)
Types	Syntype: ANSP 9535, ANSP 9536, Gabon, leg. Ford, 1854
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Comment	Synonymy: This species has been previously synonymized with Mochlus (now Lepidothyris) fernandi. The type specimens of Euprepes leoninus Fischer, 1884 (a synonym of L. striatus) are supposedly from Sierra Leone (Fischer 1883, 1884) but it is highly doubtful that the species occurs there (Wagner et al. 2009). Distribution: For a map with localities in Equatorial Guinea see SÁNCHEZ-VIALAS et al. 2022.
Etymology	Named after Latin stria = groove, often for stripe or line.
References	Carlino, P. & Pauwels, O.S.G. 2015. An Updated Reptile List of Ivindo National Park, the Herpetofaunal Hotspot of Gabon. Bull. Chicago Herp. Soc. 50(3): 25-39 - get paper here Chirio, Laurent and Ivan Ineich 2006. Biogeography of the reptiles of the Central African Republic. African Journal of Herpetology 55(1):23-59. - get paper here Fischer, J. G. 1883. Beschreibungen neuer Reptilien. Jahresber. Naturhist. Mus. Hamburg 1882: 1-15 Fischer, J. G. 1884. Herpetologische Bemerkungen. Abh. Nat. Ver. Hamburg 8 (2): 43-51 (3-11) FREITAS, ELYSE S.; ANIRUDDHA DATTA-ROY, PRAVEEN KARANTH, L. LEE GRISMER and CAMERON D. SILER 2019. Multilocus phylogeny and a new classification for African, Asian and Indian supple and writhing skinks (Scincidae: Lygosominae). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 186 (4): 1067–1096 - get paper here Hallowell,E. 1854. Remarks on the geographical distribution of reptiles, with descriptions of several species supposed to be new, and corrections of former papers. Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philad. 1854: 98-105 - get paper here Pauwels, O.S.G.; Kamdem Toham, A. & Chimsunchart, C. 2002. Recherches sur l’herpétofaune du Massif du Chaillu, Gabon. Bull. Inst. Roy. Sci. Nat. Belgique (Biologie) 72: 47-57 - get paper here SÁNCHEZ-VIALAS, A., CALVO-REVUELTA, M. & DE LA RIVA, I. 2022. Synopsis of the terrestrial Reptiles of Equatorial Guinea. Zootaxa 5202 (1): 1-197 - get paper here Wagner, Philipp; Wolfgang Böhme; Olivier S. G. Pauwels & Andreas Schmitz 2009. A review of the African red-flanked skinks of the Lygosoma fernandi (BURTON, 1836) species group (Squamata: Scincidae) and the role of climate change in their speciation. Zootaxa 2050: 1-30 - get paper here Zimin, A., Zimin, S. V., Shine, R., Avila, L., Bauer, A., Böhm, M., Brown, R., Barki, G., de Oliveira Caetano, G. H., Castro Herrera, F., Chapple, D. G., Chirio, L., Colli, G. R., Doan, T. M., Glaw, F., Grismer, L. L., Itescu, Y., Kraus, F., LeBreton 2022. A global analysis of viviparity in squamates highlights its prevalence in cold climates. Global Ecology and Biogeography, 00, 1–16 - get paper here
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