Sepsina bayonii (BOCAGE, 1866)

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Higher Taxa	Scincidae, Scincinae, Scincoidea, Sauria, Squamata (lizards)
Subspecies
Common Names	E: Bayon's Skink
Synonym	Dumerilia bayoni BOCAGE 1866: 63 Scincodipus congicus PETERS 1875: 551 (fide BOULENGER 1887) Dumerilia bayoni — DE WITTE & LAURENT 1943: 10, 16 Sepsina bayoni — BROADLEY 1998 Sepsina bayoni — BAUER 2003 Sepsina bayonii — MARQUES et al. 2018 Sepsina bayonii — CHAPPLE et al. 2021
Distribution	W Democratic Republic of the Congo (Zaire), Angola Type locality: “Loanda” [= Luanda], Luanda Province, Angola.
Reproduction	ovoviviparous
Types	Holotype: lost, formerly MB (Museu Bocage) specimen number unknown (collector F.A.P. Bayão), destroyed by fire 18 March 1978. Syntypes: ZMB 8605-07 [congicus]
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Comment
Etymology	Named after Francisco Antonio Pinheiro Bayão, a Portuguese planter and administrator whose family had settled in Angola in the 17th century where he also collected many specimens.
References	Bauer, A.M., Shea, G.M., and Günther, R. 2003. An annotated catalogue of the types of scincid lizards (Reptilia: Squamata: Scincidae) in the collection of the Museum für Naturkunde der Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (ZMB). Zoologische Reihe. Mitteilungen aus dem Museum für Naturkunde in Berlin 79:253-321 - get paper here Beolens, Bo; Michael Watkins, and Michael Grayson 2011. The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, USA - get paper here Bocage, J. V. B. 1866. Reptiles nouveaux ou peu connus recueillis dans les possessions portugaises de l'Afrique occidentale, que se trouvent au Muséum de Lisbonne. Jorn. Sci. Math. Phys. Nat. Lisboa 1: 57-78. - get paper here Bocage,J.V. du B. 1866. Lista dos reptis das possessões portuguezas d'Africa occidental que existem no Museu Lisboa. Jorn. Sci. Math. Phys. Nat. Lisboa 1: 37-56 - get paper here Chapple, David G; Roll, Uri; Böhm, Monika; Aguilar, Rocío Amey, Andrew P Austin, Chris C Baling, Marleen Barley, Anthony J Bates, Michael F Bauer, Aaron M Blackburn, Daniel G Bowles, Phil Brown, Rafe M Chandramouli, S R Chirio, Laurent Cogger, Hal Co 2021. Conservation Status of the World’s Skinks (Scincidae): Taxonomic and Geographic Patterns in Extinction Risk. Biological Conservation 257: 109101 - get paper here Marques, Mariana P.; Luis M. P. Ceríaco , David C. Blackburn , and Aaron M. Bauer 2018. Diversity and Distribution of the Amphibians and Terrestrial Reptiles of Angola -- Atlas of Historical and Bibliographic Records (1840–2017). Proc. Cal. Acad. Sci. (Ser. 4) 65: 1-501 (Supplement II) Parrinha, Diogo; Mariana P. Marques, Ana Carolina Andrade De Sousa, Aaron M. Bauer & Luis M.P. Ceríaco 2025. Buried in the Sands of Time: A New Species of Sepsina Bocage, 1866, from Angola (Squamata: Scincidae) Annals of Carnegie Museum Jan 2025 Vol. 90, No. 3: 183-193 - get paper here Peters, Wilhem Carl Hartwig 1875. Über zwei Gattung von Eidechsen, Scincodipus und Sphenoscincus. Monatsber. königl. Akad. Wiss. Berlin. 1875 (August): 551-553 - 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 Google images

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