Trachylepis farooqii BARBOSA, PARRINHA, MARQUES, HARUN, SOUSA-RECODER, SENA, BILA, INEICH, FERNANDES, PASSOS, RODRIGUES & CERÍACO, 2025
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Trachylepis farooqii
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| Higher Taxa | Scincidae, Mabuyinae (Mabuyini), Scincoidea, Sauria, Squamata (lizards) |
| Subspecies | |
| Common Names | E: Farooq’s skink Portuguese: Lagartixa de Farooq |
| Synonym | Trachylepis farooqii BARBOSA, PARRINHA, MARQUES, HARUN, SOUSA-RECODER, SENA, BILA, INEICH, FERNANDES, PASSOS, RODRIGUES & CERÍACO 2025 Euprepis cf. maculilabris — Mausfeld-Lafdhiya et al. (2004:167) Mabuia maculilabris — Loveridge (1920: 152, 1923b:956) Mabuia maculilabris — Barbour and Loveridge (1928:157). Mabuia maculilabris — Loveridge (1923a:858) [part] Mabuya maculilabris — Schmidt (1919:525) [part] Mabuya maculilabris — Loveridge (1933:312, 1936:310); Mabuya maculilabris — Spawls and Rotich (1997:70) Mabuya maculilabris — Broadley (2000:94) Mabuya maculilabris — Maus- feld et al. (2000:12) Mabuya maculilabris — Spawls et al. (2002:133) Mabuya maculilabris — Largen and Spawls (2010:394). Mabuya maculilabris comorensis — Loveridge (1953:200, 1955:173) (not Peters) Mabuya maculilabris maculilabris — Robertson et al. (1963:423) Mabuya maculilabris maculilabris — Broad- ley (1974a:7) Mabuya maculilabris maculilabris — Lanza (1990:425) Mabuya maculilabris maculilabris — Loveridge (1951:183, 1957: 209) Mabuya maculilabris maculilabris — Broadley and Howell (1991:15). Mabuya maculilabris maculilabris — Loveridge (1942:342) [part] Mabuya maculilabris maculilabris — Trachylepis maculilabris [part] Mabuya maculilabris maculilabris — Branch et al. (2005:201) Mabuya maculilabris maculilabris — Malonza et al. (2006:103; 2011:152); Mabuya maculilabris maculilabris — Goldberg (2009:114) Mabuya maculilabris maculilabris — Ceríaco et al. (2016:301) Mabuya maculilabris maculilabris — Conradie et al. (2016:174) Mabuya maculilabris maculilabris — Spawls et al. (2018:141) Mabuya maculilabris maculilabris — Weinell (2019:187) Mabuya maculilabris maculilabris — Allen (2019:232) Mabuya maculilabris maculilabris — Lyakurwa (2019:12) Mabuya maculilabris maculilabris — Pie- tersen et al. (2021:272) Mabuya maculilabris maculilabris — Spawls et al. (2023:256) Mabuya maculilabris maculilabris — Ceríaco et al. (2024:82). “Trachylepis maculilabris 1” — Ceríaco et al. (2024:7) Trachylepis maculilabris 4” — Sindaco et al. (2012:355) Trachylepis maculilabris 5” — Sindaco et al. (2012:355) |
| Distribution | Mozambique Type locality: Naburi [16.78857S, 38.88581E], Mozambique |
| Reproduction | |
| Types | Holotype. MZUSP L108148, adult male, field number MTR 38383, Fig. 4) collected by Miguel Trefaut Rodrigues, Renato Sousa Recoder, Marco Aurélio de Sena, Agustin Camacho, Mohamed Harun, Samuel Bila, Francisco Dal Vechio, and Mauro Teixeira Junior on 27 October 2015. Paratypes.––One adult male (MZUSP L108146, field number MTR 38221) and one adult female (MZUSP L108147, field number MTR 38327), collected at Naburi [16.78857S, 38.88581E], Mozambique, by Miguel Trefaut Rodrigues, Renato Sousa Recoder, Marco Aurélio de Sena, Agustin Camacho, Mohamed Harun, Samuel Bila, Francisco Dal Vechio, and Mauro Teixeira Junior, respectively on 27 and 28 October 2015. One adult male (MNHN-RA 2009.0442, field number 1578I), collected at Cabo Delgado region [10.8388S, 40.1944E], northern Mozambique, by Ivan Ineich on 26 November 2009. |
| Diagnosis | Diagnosis: A medium-sized skink (max. SVL 98 mm, KMH 11907), with fully developed pentadactyl limbs (Fig. 5); dorsal scales with three to nine keels, commonly 7 (68%); ventral scales smooth; 55–70 SAV; 49–58 SAD; 28–36 MSR; subdigital lamellae smooth; plantar scales smooth; 14–21 LUFT; 14–15 LUFF; supranasals usually separated (65%), sometimes in contact; parietals touching at a single point or in contact; prefrontals usually separated (85%), sometimes in contact; frontoparietals always in contact; one pair of enlarged nuchal scales; ear opening vertically ovoid and smaller than the eye, lacking subtriangular auricular scales on the anterior margin. One scale row above the window in eyelid. Supralabials seven (rarely eight), the fifth being subocular; three to seven supraciliaries, but three and four being rare; nostril oriented laterally. Dorsum reddish brown with a pair of orange dorsolateral stripes extending from the eye to halfway down the tail (Figs. 5, 6A, 7A); labials grayish brown with dark speckling between scales. Venter cream white to yellow (Fig. 6B) with dark speckling near the flanks and on the first third of the tail. (Barbosa et al. 2025) Additional details (5478 characters) are available for collaborators and contributors. Please contact us for details. |
| Comment | Distribution: for a map of localities see Barbosa et al. 2025: 14 (Fig. 8). |
| Etymology | Named after Harith Omar Morgadinho Farooq (born 1986), Mo- zambican herpetologist who in the last decade has greatly contributed to uncovering the rich and still poorly known herpetofauna of his country. |
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