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Panaspis breviceps (PETERS, 1873)

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Higher TaxaScincidae, Eugongylinae (Eugongylini), Scincoidea, Sauria, Squamata (lizards)
Subspecies 
Common NamesE: Shorted-headed Snake-eyed Skink, Peters' Lidless Skink 
SynonymEuprepes (Mabuia) breviceps PETERS 1873: 604
Lygosoma breviceps – BOULENGER 1887: 300
Mabuia batesi BOULENGER 1900: 449
Lygosoma (Leiolopisma) buchneri WERNER 1909: 62
Lygosoma (Leiolopisma) auricillatum CHABANAUD 1909: 98
Lygosoma breviceps — MÜLLER 1910
Lygosoma breviceps — SCHMIDT 1919: 556
Emoia breviceps — LOVERIDGE 1936: 71
Riopa (Panaspis) breviceps — SMITH 1937: 229
Panaspis breviceps – MITTLEMAN 1952: 17-23
Riopa breviceps – MERTENS 1964: 220
Riopa breviceps – EISTENTRAUT 1973: 299
Panaspis breviceps – PERRET 1973
Panaspis breviceps — GREER 1974: 29
Panaspis (Panaspis) breviceps – PERRET 1975: 6
Leptosiaphos (Lacertaspis) breviceps — BROADLEY 1989
Leptosiaphos breviceps — BROADLEY 1998
Panaspis breviceps — PAUWELS et al. 2004
Leptosiaphos breviceps — BURGER et al. 2004
Panaspis aff. breviceps — CERÍACO et al. 2020
Panaspis breviceps — LOBÓN-ROVIRA et al. 2025 
DistributionEquatorial Guinea (Bioko = Fernando Po), Gabon, Cameroon, NW Angola, C Democratic Republic of the Congo (Zaire), Central African Republic

Type locality: “Gabon” [and] “Cameruns”  
Reproductionoviparous 
TypesSyntypes: ZMB 6303, 8017; possible additional syntypes are listed by Fuhn (1972) as BMNH 1902.11.12.9–11.
Holotype: SMNS 1141 [buchneri]
Holotype: MNHN 1917.17 [auricillatum] 
DiagnosisDiagnosis: Panaspis aff. breviceps can be distinguished from other members of the genus occurring in Angola and surroundings region by having 1) presence of supranasals; 2) movable lower eyelids; 3) frontoparietals separated; 4) dorsum brown, with four very longitudinal stripes composed of white and black dots; 5) presence of a large lateral dark band on the flanks of females and juveniles; 6) 30 to 34 midbody scales rows (from Ceríaco et al. 2020: 89).


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CommentDistribution: For a map with localities in Equatorial Guinea see SÁNCHEZ-VIALAS et al. 2022. 
EtymologyNamed after Latin “brevis, -e” = short and “-ceps”, a short form of “caput” = head. 
References
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  • 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
  • Boulenger,G.A. 1900. A list of the batrachians and reptiles of the Gaboon (French Congo), with descriptions of new genera and species. Proc. Zool. Soc. London 1900: 433-456 - 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
  • 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
  • CERÍACO, LUIS M. P.; MATTHEW P. HEINICKE, KELLY L. PARKER, MARIANA P. MARQUES, AARON M. BAUER 2020. A review of the African snake-eyed skinks (Scincidae: Panaspis) from Angola, with the description of a new species. Zootaxa 4747 (1): 77–112 - get paper here
  • Chabanaud,P. 1909. nan Bull. Mus. N. Hist. Nat. Paris, 23 (2): 98-100. - get paper here
  • Chirio, L. & Lebreton, M. 2007. Atlas des reptiles du Cameroun. MNHN, IRD, Paris 688 pp.
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  • Eisentraut, M. 1973. Die Wirbeltierefauna von Fernando Poo und Westkamerun. Bonner Zool. Monogr. (3) 428 pp. - get paper here
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  • Lobón-Rovira, Javier; Ninda L. Baptista, Tyron Clark, Luke Verburgt, Greg Jongsma, Werner Conradie, Luis Veríssimo & Pedro Vaz Pinto (0 Jan 2025. Filling the gaps: herpetological checklist of Mayombe National Park and Cabinda Province (Angola) shed light on one of the most unexplored corners of tropical Central Africa, African Journal of Herpetology, - get paper here
  • Lokasola, Albert L; Cédric Botshuna Lotana, Guy-Crispin Gembu Tungaluna, Benjamin Dudu Akaibe, Miloslav Jirků & Václav Gvoždík 2021. New Distributional Data and Genetic Variation of Panaspis breviceps (Squamata: Scincidae) Indicate a Biogeographic Connection across the Congo Basin. African Zoology 56(4): 312–318. - get paper here
  • Loveridge, A. 1936. African reptiles and amphibians in the Field Museum of Natural History. Zool. Ser. Field Mus. Nat. Hist., Chicago, 22 (1): 1-122 - get paper here
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  • Portik DM, Jongsma GFM, Kouete MT, Scheinberg LA, Freiermuth B, Tapondjou WP, Blackburn DC. 2016. A survey of amphibians and reptiles in the foothills of Mount Kupe, Cameroon. Amphibian & Reptile Conservation 10(2) [Special Section]: 37–67 (e131)
  • 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
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  • Schmidt, Karl Patterson 1919. Contributions to the Herpetology of the Belgian Congo based on the Collection of the American Congo Expedition, 1909-1915. Part I: turtles, crocodiles, lizards, and chamaeleons. Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist. 39 (2): 385-624 - get paper here
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