Proscelotes arnoldi (HEWITT, 1932)

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Higher Taxa	Scincidae, Scincinae, Scincoidea, Sauria, Squamata (lizards)
Subspecies
Common Names	E: Arnold's Montane Skink
Synonym	Sepsina arnoldi HEWITT 1932: 112 Sepsina arnoldi — DE WITTE & LAURENT 1943: 14 Scelotes arnoldi — BROADLEY 1962 Proscelotes arnoldi — GREER 1970 Proscelotes arnoldi mlanjensis BROADLEY 1963 Scelotes arnoldi mlanjensis BROADLEY 1963 Proscelotes arnoldi mlanjensis — GREER 1970 (by implication) Proscelotes arnoldi mlanjensis — STEVENS 1974 Proscelotes mlanjensis — PIETERSEN et al. 2021
Distribution	E Zimbabwe, Malawi Type locality: Vumbu Mts., Umtali district
Reproduction	ovoviviparous
Types	Holotype: NMZB (as Rhodesian Museum), Vumbu Mtns, 5600ft, near Umtali and near border of Mozambique, collected D.G. Arnold. Holotype: UM 4267, adult female; paratype: AMNH [mlanjensis]
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Comment	Limb morphology: Reduced limbs. Type not in South Africa fide SAMA catalog (Anonymous 1958).
Etymology	Named after Dr. George Arnold (1881-1962), British entomologist who specialized on ants and wasps. In 1911 he became Curator, and later Director, of the National Museum of Southern Rhodesia, Bulawayo.
References	Beolens, Bo; Michael Watkins, and Michael Grayson 2011. The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, USA - get paper here Broadley, D.G. 1962. On some reptile collections from the North-Western and North-Eastern Districts of Southern Rhodesia 1958-1961, with descriptions of four new lizards. Occ. Pap. Nat. Mus. South. Rhodesia 26 (B): 787-843 Broadley, D.G. 1963. Three new lizards from South Nyasaland and Tete. Ann. Mag. nat. Hist. (12) 6:285—288. - get paper here Greer, Allen E. 1970. The systematics and evolution of the Subsaharan Africa, Seychelles, and Mauritius Scincine Scincid lizards. Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool. Harvard 140 (1): 1-24 - get paper here Hewitt, J. 1932. Some new species and subspecies of South African batrachians and lizards. Ann. Natal Mus. (Pietermaritzburg) 7 (1): 105-128 Stevens, R.A. 1974. An annotated check list of the amphibians and reptiles known to occur in south-eastern Malawi. Arnoldia (Rhodesia) 6 (30) 22 pp. 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 Wyk, Kurt M van; Bryan Maritz & Bruce W Clegg 2025. Distribution and status of reptile species in south-eastern Zimbabwe. African Journal of Herpetology, 74:2, 210-270, - get paper here
External links	IUCN Red List National Center for Biotechnology Information Google images

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