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Trachylepis pendeana (INEICH & CHIRIO, 2001)

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Higher TaxaScincidae, Mabuyinae (Mabuyini), Scincoidea, Sauria, Squamata (lizards)
Subspecies 
Common Names 
SynonymMabuya pendeana INEICH & CHIRIO 2001
Euprepis pendeanus — MAUSFELD et al. 2002
Trachylepis pendeana — BAUER 2003
Trachylepis pendeanus — CHIRIO & INEICH 2006 
DistributionNW Central African Republic (Pendé area), probably in S Chad (L. Chirio, pers. comm.)

Type locality: at Pendé River (7°2'E, 16°4'N), Central African Republic.  
Reproduction 
TypesHolotype: MNHN-RA 1995.5606, adult female; paratypes: MNHN-RA 1992.4708, MNHN-RA 1995.5600-5606, MNHN-RA 1995.5608-5609 
Diagnosis 
CommentAbundance: only known from its original description (Meiri et al. 2017). This is one of the species called 'lost' and 'rediscovered' by Lindken et al. 2024.

The publication date is 2001, not 2000, fide Frétey 2023. 
EtymologyNamed after the type locality. 
References
  • Chirio, Laurent and Ivan Ineich 2006. Biogeography of the reptiles of the Central African Republic. African Journal of Herpetology 55(1):23-59. - get paper here
  • Chirio, Laurent, Ivan Ineich, Andreas Schmitz and Matthew LeBreton. 2008. A new species of Trachylepis Fitzinger, 1843 (Squamata: Scincidae) from Central African forests. African Journal of Herpetology 57(1):13-28 - get paper here
  • Ineich, I. & L. CHIRIO 2001. Description d'un nouveau scincidé de Republique Centrafricaine (Lacertilia: Mabuya pendeana). Bull. Soc. zool. Fr., 125 (3): 197-204 [2000, see Fretey 2023]
  • Ineich, I. & L. Chirio 2004. L'Archipel Afro-montagne et les affinités de son herpetofaune: description d'une espèce nouvelle indiquant des relations phylétiques entre le Camerun et l'Afrique de l'est (Lacertilia, Scincidae, genre Trachyleps. Bull. Soc. zool. Fr., 129(3): 317-331
  • 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
  • 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
 
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