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Trachylepis betsileana (MOCQUARD, 1906)

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Higher TaxaScincidae, Mabuyinae (Mabuyini), Scincoidea, Sauria, Squamata (lizards)
Subspecies 
Common NamesE: Betsileo Mabuya 
SynonymMabuia betsileana MOCQUARD 1906
Mabuya betsileana — ANGEL 1942: 109
Mabuya betsileana — GLAW & VENCES 1994: 312
Euprepis betsileana — MAUSFELD & SCHMITZ 2003
Trachylepis betsileana — BAUER 2003 
DistributionMadagascar ?

Type locality: Betafo, province de Betsileo, Madagascar.  
Reproduction 
TypesHolotype: MNHN-RA 1906.0169, Betafo, Petsileo Province, Madagascar, collector unknown. 
Diagnosis 
CommentSynonymy: May be based on M. perrotetii (see Nussbaum et al. 1999, Greer & Nussbaum 2000).

Distribution: This species hasn't been recorded from Madagascar for about 100 years. It is probably a mislabelled specimen from Africa, not Madagascar.

Abundance: only known from the type locality (Meiri et al. 2017). This is one of the species called 'lost' and 'rediscovered' by Lindken et al. 2024. 
Etymologynamed after the type locality. 
References
  • Angel, F. 1942. Les Lézards de Madagascar. Mem. Acad. Malagache, Tananarive XXXVI: 193 pp.
  • Glaw ,F. & Vences, M. 1994. A Fieldguide to the Amphibians and Reptiles of Madagascar. Vences & Glaw Verlag, Köln (ISBN 3-929449-01-3)
  • Greer,A.E. & NUSSBAUM,R.A. 2000. New character useful in the systematics of the scincid lizard genus Mabuya. Copeia 2000 (2): 615-618 - get paper here
  • Lindken T.; Anderson, C. V., Ariano-Sánchez, D., Barki, G., Biggs, C., Bowles, P., Chaitanya, R., Cronin, D. T., Jähnig, S. C., Jeschke, J. M., Kennerley, R. J., Lacher, T. E. Jr., Luedtke, J. A., Liu, C., Long, B., Mallon, D., Martin, G. M., Meiri, 2024. What factors influence the rediscovery of lost tetrapod species? Global Change Biology, 30: 1-18 - get paper here
  • MAUSFELD, Patrick & Andreas SCHMITZ 2003. Molecular phylogeography, intraspecific variation and speciation of the Asian scincid lizard genus Eutropis Fitzinger, 1843 (Squamata: Reptilia: Scincidae): taxonomic and biogeographic implications. Org. Divers. Evol. 3: 161–171 - get paper here
  • Meiri, Shai; Aaron M. Bauer, Allen Allison, Fernando Castro-Herrera, Laurent Chirio, Guarino Colli, Indraneil Das, Tiffany M. Doan, Frank Glaw, Lee L. Grismer, Marinus Hoogmoed, Fred Kraus, Matthew LeBreton, Danny Meirte, Zoltán T. Nagy, Cristiano d 2017. Extinct, obscure or imaginary: the lizard species with the smallest ranges. Diversity and Distributions - get paper here
  • Mocquard, F. 1906. Description de quelques espéces nouvelles de Reptiles. Bull. Mus. nat. Hist. nat., Paris 7: 464-466. - get paper here
  • Nussbaum, Ronald A.; Christopher J. Raxworthy & Jean B. RAMANAMANJATO 1999. Additional species of Mabuya Fitzinger (Reptilia: Squamata: Scincidae) from Western Madagascar. Journal of Herpetology 33 (2): 264-280 - get paper here
  • Ramanamanjato, J. B., R. A. Nussbaum & C. J. Raxworthy 1999. A new species of Mabuya Fitzinger (Squamata: Scincidae: Lygosominae) from northern Madagascar. Occasional Papers of the Museum of Zoology University of Michigan 728: 1-22 - get paper here
 
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