| Higher Taxa | Scincidae, Mabuyinae (Mabuyini), Scincoidea, Sauria, Squamata (lizards) |
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| Common Names | E: Bronze Rock Skink |
| Synonym | Euprepes lacertiformes PETERS 1854: 618
Mabuya damarana FITZSIMONS 1943: 224 (not PETERS) (part.)
Mabuya lacertiformis — LOVERIDGE 1953: 201
Mabuya damarana rhodesiana BROADLEY 1960: 435
Mabuya longiloba rhodesiana — BROADLEY 1962
Mabuya lacertiformis — GREER et al. 2000
Euprepis lacertiformis — MAUSFELD et al. 2002
Trachylepis lacertiformis — BAUER 2003
Trachylepis cf. lacertiformis — MARQUES et al. 2018 |
| Distribution | E Zimbabwe (Lower Zambezi River valley), S Lake Malawi, Mozambique (Tete district).
Type locality: “Tette” [Mozambique]; “Boror [considered to be in error for Tete, Mozambique] fide BROADLEY 2000.
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| Reproduction | oviparous |
| Types | Syntypes: lost, formerly ZMB 5523 (4 specimens). Lost fide Bauer et al. (2003). |
| Diagnosis | Additional details, e.g. a detailed description or comparisons (283 characters), are available for collaborators and contributors. Please contact us for details. |
| Comment | Distribution: Not in Angola fide Ceriaco et al. 2024 (revision Angolan Trachylepis). |
| Etymology | Named after Latin lacerta, a lizard, and Latin formis = form, figure, appearance, for the lizard-like appearance of this skink. |
| References |
- Bauer, A.M.; Günther,R. & Klipfel,M. 1995. The herpetological contributions of Wilhelm C.H. Peters (1815-1883). SSAR Facsimile Reprints in Herpetology, 714 pp.
- Broadley, D. G. 1974. A review of the Mabuya lacertiformis complex in southern Africa. Arnoldia (Rhodesia) (ser. 7) 18: 1-16
- Broadley, D.G. 1960. Sauria, Scincidae: Mabuya damarana rhodesiana. Occ. Pap. Natn. Mus. S. Rhod. (Ser. B.) 3: 435-436
- Broadley, D.G. 1960. Sauria, Cordylidae: Gerrhosaurus nigrolineatus anselli n. subsp. Occ. Pap. Nat. Mus. South. Rhodesia 24 (B): 433-434
- 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. 2000. A review of the genus Mabuya in southeastern Africa (Sauria: Scincidae). African Journal of Herpetology, 49 (2): 87-110 - get paper here
- FitzSimons, V.F. 1943. The lizards of South Africa. Transvaal Museum Memoir No.1 (Pretoria), 528 pp.
- Greer, A.E., Arnold, C. & Arnold, E.N. 2000. The systematic significance of the number of presacral vertebrae in the scincid lizard genus Mabuya. Amphibia-Reptilia 21 (1): 121-126 - get paper here
- Loveridge, A. 1953. Zoological Results of a fifth expedition to East Africa. III. Reptiles from Nyasaland and Tete. Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool. Harvard 110 (3): 142-322. - 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)
- Peters,W.C.H. 1854. Diagnosen neuer Batrachier, welche zusammen mit der früher (24. Juli und 17. August) gegebenen Übersicht der Schlangen und Eidechsen mitgetheilt werden. Ber. Bekanntmach. Geeignet. Verhandl. Königl.-Preuss. Akad. Wiss. Berlin 1854: 614-628
- Pietersen, Darren, Verburgt, Luke & Davies, John 2021. Snakes and other reptiles of Zambia and Malawi. Struik Nature / Penguin Random House South Africa, 376 pp., ISBN 9781775847373
- Weinell, J.L., Bauer, A.M. 2017. Systematics and phylogeography of the widely distributed African skink Trachylepis varia species complex. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution
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