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Trachylepis binotata (BOCAGE, 1867)

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Higher TaxaScincidae, Mabuyinae (Mabuyini), Scincoidea, Sauria, Squamata (lizards)
Subspecies 
Common NamesE: Ovambo Stree Skink, Bocage's Mabuya 
SynonymEuprepes binotatus BOCAGE 1867: 230
Mabuia binotata — BOCAGE 1895: 46
Mabuya quinquetaeniata — BOULENGER 1887: 198
Mabuia binotata — BOCAGE 1897: 196
Mabuia binotata — MONARD 1937: 91
Mabuya binotata — HELLMICH 1957a: 59
Mabuya binotata — HELLMICH 1957b: 54
Mabuya binotata — LAURENT 1964: 68
Mabuya binotata — BRANCH 1998: 151
Mabuya binotata — BAUER et al. 2003: 270
Euprepes binotata — BAUER et al. 2003: 270).
Mabuya quinquetaeniata binotata — MERTENS 1926: 152
Mabuya quinquetaeniata binotata — MERTENS 1937: 10
Mabuya quinquetaeniata binotata — MERTENS 1938: 437
Trachylepis binotata — CERIACO et al. 2016b: 57
Trachylepis binotata — CERIACO 2021: 402
Trachylepis binotata — MARQUES et al. 2018: 257
Trachylepis binotata — BRANCH et al. 2019a: 318
Trachylepis binotata — BUTLER et al. 2019: 234
Trachylepis binotata — BAPTISTA et al. 2019: 109
Trachylepis binotata — SANTOS et al. 2021: 24
Trachylepis binotata — LOBÓN-ROVIRA et al. 2022: 309
Mabuya striata binotata — HEWITT 1935: 304
Mabuya binotata — HELLMICH 1957
Mabuya binotata — BRYGOO 1985: 13
Mabuya binotata — BAUER et al. 1993
Mabuya binotata — GREER et al. 2000
Euprepis binotatus — MAUSFELD et al. 2002
Trachylepis binotata — BAUER 2003
Trachylepis binotata — SCHLEICHER 2020
Trachylepis binotata — CERIACO et al. 2024: 42 
DistributionN Namibia, S Angola

Type locality: “Benguella, Dombe e Catumbella.”  
Reproduction 
TypesSyntypes: BMNH 1946.8.15.32 (formerly 67.7.23.26), Benguella, Angola, presented J.V. Barbosa du Bocage; paratypes: MNHN 1462 (2792B, 1867.120), Benguella, Angola, presented MBL; ZMB 5830, Catumbella, Angola, presented J.V. Barbosa du Bocage. See Bauer et al. (2003) for the identification of these types. Other syntypes in MBL were presumably destroyed by fire in 1978. 
DiagnosisDiagnosis: Ceriaco et al. 2024 
CommentSynonymy: Boulenger 1887 placed this species into the synonymy of M. quinquetaeniata.

Distribution: see map in Ceriaco et al. 2024: 48 (Fig. 28). 
References
  • Baptista NL, António T, Branch WR. 2019. The herpetofauna of Bicuar National Park and surroundings, southwestern Angola: a preliminary checklist. Amphibian & Reptile Conservation 13(2) [Special Section]: 96–130 (e203) - get paper here
  • Bauer, Aaron M.; Branch, William R. & Haacke, Wulf D. 1993. The herpetofauna of the Kamanjab area and adjacent Damaraland, Namibia. Madoqua (Windhoek) 18 (2): 117-145. - get paper here
  • Bocage,J.V. du B. 1867. Segunda lista dos reptis das possessões portuguezas d’Africa occidental que existem no Museu de Lisboa. Jornal de Sci. math. phys. e nat. Lisboa (3): 217-228 - get paper here
  • Bocage,J.V. du B. 1895. Herpétologie d'Angola et du Congo. Lisbon: Imprimerie Nationale, i-xx, 203 pp. - get paper here
  • Brygoo, E.R. 1985. Les types des scincidés (Reptiles, Sauriens) du Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle, catalogue critique. Bull. Mus. Natl. Hist. Nat. (4e sér.) 7 (sect. A 3), suppl.: 1-126
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  • Ceríaco, Luis M.P.; Mariana P. Marques, Diogo Parrinha, Arthur Tiutenko, Jeffrey L. Weinell, Brett O. Butler & Aaron M. Bauer 2024. The Trachylepis (Squamata: Scincidae) of Angola: An Integrative Taxonomic Review with the Description of Seven New Species Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History Feb 2024 Vol. 2024, No. 465: 1-153 - get paper here
  • 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
  • Hellmich, W. 1957. Herpetologische Ergebnisse einer Forschungsreise in Angola. Veröff. Zool. Staatssammlung München 5: 1-91 - get paper here
  • Herrmann, H.-W.; W.R. Branch 2013. Fifty years of herpetological research in the Namib Desert and Namibia with an updated and annotated species checklist. Journal of Arid Environments 93: 94–115 - get paper here
  • Hewitt, J. 1935. Some new forms of batrachians and reptiles from South Africa. Rec. Albany Mus. 4: 283-357
  • Lobón-Rovira J, Vaz Pinto P, S. Becker F, Tolley KA, Measey J, Bennet B, Boon B, de Sá S, Conradie W 2022. An updated herpetofaunal species inventory of Iona National Park in southwestern Angola. Check List 18(2): 289-321 - get paper here
  • Marques MP, Parrinha D, Lopes-Lima M, Tiutenko A, Bauer AM, Ceríaco LMP 2024. An island in a sea of sand: a first checklist of the herpetofauna of the Serra da Neve inselberg, southwestern Angola. ZooKeys 1201: 167-217 - 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)
  • Mausfeld,P.; Vences, M. Schmitz, A. & Veith, M. 2000. First data on the molecular phylogeography of scincid lizards of the genus Mabuya. Mol. Phylogenet. Evol. 17 (1): 11-14 - get paper here
  • SANTOS, B. S. .,MARQUES, M. P. ., BAUER, A. M. ., & CERÍACO, L. M. P. . 2021. Herpetological results of Francisco Newton’s Zoological Expedition to Angola (1903–1906): a taxonomic revision and new records of a forgotten collection. Zootaxa 5028 (1): 1–80 - get paper here
  • Schleicher, Alfred 2015. Reptilien Namibias. Namibia Scientific  Society, 276 pp.
  • Schleicher, Alfred 2020. Reptiles of Namibia. Kuiseb Publishers, Windhoek, Namibia, 271 pp.
 
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