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Trachylepis gravenhorstii (DUMÉRIL & BIBRON, 1839)

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Higher TaxaScincidae, Mabuyinae (Mabuyini), Scincoidea, Sauria, Squamata (lizards)
Subspecies 
Common NamesE: Gravenhorst's Mabuya 
SynonymGongylus (Euprepes) Gravenhorstii DUMÉRIL & BIBRON 1839: 686
Tiliqua bistriatus GRAY 1831
Scincus vittatus GRAVENHORST 1832
Euprepes Gravenhorstii — GRAVENHORST 1851: 335
Euprepes bilineatus GRANDIDIER 1869
Mabuia gravenhorstii — ANDERSSON 1910: 10
Mabuya gravenhorstii — ANGEL 1942: 108
Mabuya gravenhorstii — GLAW & VENCES 1994: 309
Mabuya gravenhorstii — GREER et al. 2000
Euprepis gravenhorstii — MAUSFELD & SCHMITZ 2003
Trachylepis gravenhorstii — BAUER 2003 
DistributionMadagascar, Nossi Be = Nosy Bé, Nosy Fanihy, Nosy Mitsio, Nosy Sakatia, Nosy Komba

Type locality: “Madagascar”  
Reproductionoviparous 
TypesLectotype : MNHN-RA 2948; paralectotype: MNHN-RA 0260, Madagascar, collector unknown. Designation by Guibé (1954), by inference of holotype (see Brygoo, 1985).
Lectotype: MNHN [Euprepes bilineatus] 
Diagnosis 
CommentDistribution: see map in Vences et al. 2014: 482 (Fig. 3)

Type species: Mabuia gravenhorstii Duméril & Bibron 1839 is the type species of the genus Monophyaspis COPE 1892, a synonym of Trachylepis, fide Shea 2021. 
EtymologyNamed after Johann Ludwig Christian (or Jean Louis Charles) Gravenhorst (1777-1857), German naturalist at the University of Breslau (Wroclaw, Poland). 
References
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