Proscelotes aenea (BARBOUR & LOVERIDGE, 1928)

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Higher Taxa	Scincidae, Scincinae, Scincoidea, Sauria, Squamata (lizards)
Subspecies
Common Names	E: Mozambique sand skink, Montane Skink
Synonym	Scelotes aeneus BARBOUR & LOVERIDGE 1928: 63 Sepsina aenea — DE WITTE & LAURENT 1943: 15 Scelotes aeneus — MARX 1958: 471 Scelotes aeneus — LOVERIDGE 1960 Scelotes aeneus — GUNDY & WURST 1976 Proscelotes aenea — RUSSEL & BAUER in GANS et al. 2008 Proscelotes aenea — PURULEIA et al. 2023
Distribution	Mozambique Type locality: “Lumbo, Mozambique, Portuguese East Africa”
Reproduction	ovoviviparous
Types	Holotype: MCZ 18355
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Comment	Abundance: only known from its original description (Meiri et al. 2017) until rediscovered by Puruleia et al. 2023.
Etymology	Named after its color: Latin “aenea/-us” = bronze, copper, or ore.
References	Barbour, Thomas & Loveridge, Arthur 1928. New skinks of the genus Scelotes from Mozambique and Madagascar. Proc. New England Zoological Club 10: 63-65 Gans, C., A. S. Gaunt, K. Adler (eds.) 2008. Biology of the Reptilia, Volume 21, Morphology I: The Skull and Appendicular Locomotor Apparatus of Lepidosauria. SSAR, 792 pp. - get paper here Gundy, G.C. & Wurst, G.Z. 1976. The occurrence of parietal eyes in recent Lacertilia (Reptilia). Journal of Herpetology 10: 113-121 - get paper here Loveridge, A. 1960. Status of new vertebrates described or collected by LOVERIDGE. Journal of The East Africa Natural History Society 23 (7): 250-280 - get paper here Meiri, Shai; Aaron M. Bauer, Allen Allison, Fernando Castro-Herrera, Laurent Chirio, Guarino Colli, Indraneil Das, Tiffany M. Doan, Frank Glaw, Lee L. Grismer, Marinus Hoogmoed, Fred Kraus, Matthew LeBreton, Danny Meirte, Zoltán T. Nagy, Cristiano d 2017. Extinct, obscure or imaginary: the lizard species with the smallest ranges. Diversity and Distributions 24 (2): 262-273 - get paper here Puruleia, A., Nanvonamuquitxo, C., Ernesto, M. et al. 2023. Rediscovery of the lost skink Proscelotes aenea and implications for conservation. Sci Rep 13, 11261 (2023) - get paper here Witte, G.F. de & R. LAURENT 1943. Contribution à la systématique des formes dégradées de la famille des Scincidae apparentées au genre Scelotes Fitzinger. Mém. Mus. r. Hist. nat. Belg. (sér.2) 26: 44 pp. - get paper here
External links	IUCN Red List National Center for Biotechnology Information Google images

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