Proscelotes aenea (BARBOUR & LOVERIDGE, 1928)
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Proscelotes aenea
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| Higher Taxa | Scincidae, Scincinae, Scincoidea, Sauria, Squamata (lizards) |
| Subspecies | |
| Common Names | E: Montane Skink |
| Synonym | Scelotes aeneus BARBOUR & LOVERIDGE 1928 Scelotes aeneus — MARX 1958: 471 Scelotes aeneus — LOVERIDGE 1960 Scelotes aeneus — GUNDY & WURST 1976 Proscelotes aenea — RUSSEL & BAUER in GANS et al. 2008 |
| Distribution | Mozambique Type locality: “Lumbo, Mozambique, Portuguese East Africa” |
| Reproduction | ovovivparous |
| Types | Holotype: MCZ 18355 |
| Diagnosis | Description. Snout subcuneiform, projecting very slightly beyond the opening lower jaw; eye moderate; lower eyelid with five semi-opaque scales; ear horizontal; supranasals forming a median suture; the nostril pierced in an indentation of the rostral, bordered above by the supranasal, behind by a nasal reduced to a very inconspicuous narrow ring, and below between by the first labial, being placed above and a little to the front of the suture first labial and rostral; frontal twice as long as the frontonasal, much longer than broad; no prefrontals; four supraoculars, second largest (first rarely as large); six supraciliaries; two praeoculars; one postocular; no frontoparietal; interparietal as broad as long, its anterior edge considerably narrower than the frontal, into which its obtusely angular edge fits; six upper labials, the fifth (fourth in some paratypes) entering the orbit. Twenty-two scales around the body. Limbs pentadactyle, weak, widely separated when adpressed; the fore limb, if stretched forward, covers only half its distance from the ear; digits stumpy, the third and fourth toes about three times the length of the others. Tail a little shorter than the length from snout to vent. (The tails of all the paratypes are regenerated.) (Barbour & Loveridge 1928) |
| Comment | Abundance: only known from its original description (Meiri et al. 2017). |
| Etymology | Named after its color: Latin “aenea/-us” = bronze, copper, or ore. |
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