Trachylepis boehmei KOPPETSCH, 2020

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Higher Taxa	Scincidae, Mabuyinae (Mabuyini), Scincoidea, Sauria, Squamata (lizards)
Subspecies
Common Names	E: Böhme’s Grass Skink
Synonym	Trachylepis boehmei KOPPETSCH 2020
Distribution	Ethiopia (Amhara Region) Type locality: Ankober (9°36′N, 39°44′E), elevation 2,450 m.a.sl., North Shewa, Amhara Region, Ethiopia (map in Fig. 2 in Koppetsch 2020).
Reproduction	ovoviviparous (Koppetsch 2020).
Types	Holotype: ZFMK 16795, adult female, collected by G. Nikolaus on 12 November 1975 (Fig. 1). Paratypes: ZFMK 16785–86, 16788, 16791–92, 16794 and 16796: adult females, ZFMK 16787, 16789–90 and 16793: adult males, all with the same data as the holotype (Fig. 4B).
Diagnosis	Diagnosis: Trachylepis boehmei sp. nov. can be distinguished from all other congeners by the following combination of characters: (1) slender body of small size, SVL up to 55.3 mm; (2) relatively short tail length, up to 69.6 mm (about 1.3 times SVL); (3) relatively short eye–snout distance, up to 0.3 times head length; (4) 26–29 scale rows around midbody; (5) smooth uncarinated dorsal scales; (6) unique colour pattern showing a striped throat (11–12 stripes), a lateral white stripe from eye to tail, dorsally a pale brownish colouration with 6–8 darkish brown stripes ranging from neck to the end of the tail, an unpatterned cremish white ventral colouration and a head with small brown spots dorsally (Koppetsch 2020). Additional details (3449 characters) are available for collaborators and contributors. Please contact us for details.
Comment
Etymology	Named after Wolfgang Böhme, German herpetologist at the Zoological Research Museum Alexander Koenig in Bonn, to honour his comprehensive and passionate research on African herpetofauna, the numerous contributions to its knowledge and his outstanding and ongoing strong promotion and supervision of the author.
References	Koppetsch T. 2020. A new species of Trachylepis (Squamata: Scincidae) from the Amhara Region, Ethiopia, and a key to the Ethiopian Trachylepis. . doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.4859.1.4. PMID: 33056207 Zootaxa 4859 (1): 113-126 - get paper here Spawls, Stephen; Tomáš Mazuch & Abubakr Mohammad 2023. Handbook of Amphibians and Reptiles of North-east Africa. Bloomsbury, 640 pp. - get paper here
External links	http://zoobank.org/urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act:D0E725F7-C9BB-4B6D-929E… Google images

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