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Trachylepis hemmingi (GANS, LAURENT & PANDIT, 1965)

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Higher TaxaScincidae, Mabuyinae (Mabuyini), Scincoidea, Sauria, Squamata (lizards)
Subspecies 
Common NamesE: Somali Mabuya 
SynonymMabuya hemmingi GANS, LAURENT & PANDIT 1965: 33
Mabuya hemmingi — GREER et al. 2000
Euprepis hemmingi — MAUSFELD et al. 2002
Trachylepis hemmingi — BAUER 2003 
DistributionSomalia

Type locality: Somalia, Talen  
Reproduction 
TypesHolotype: MCZ R-73116 
DiagnosisDiagnosis: A middle sized, stocky species, with smooth scales on the soles and smooth subdigital lamellae; short limbs and toes, subocular not narrowed, and 32 smooth scales around the body; differing from M. brevicollis, its closest relative, especially in the smooth scales of the soles and the smooth subdigital lamellae. (Gans & Laurent 1965) 
Comment 
EtymologyNamed after C. F. Hemming, an entomologist and expert on locusts who worked in the Somali Republic where he collected the type. 
References
  • Beolens, Bo; Michael Watkins, and Michael Grayson 2011. The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, USA - get paper here
  • Gans, C.; LAURENT, R.F. & PANDIT, H. 1965. Notes on a herpetological collection from the Somali Republic. Ann. Mus. Roy. Afr. Centr., Sér. 8vo, Tervuren, (80) Zool., (134): 1-93
  • 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
  • Lanza, B. 1990. Amphibians and reptiles of the Somali Democratic Republic: check list and biogeography. Biogeographia, 14: 407-465 [1988] - get paper here
  • Sindaco, R., Metallinou, M., Pupin, F., Fasola, M. & Carranza, S. 2012. Forgotten in the ocean: systematics, biogeography and evolution of the Trachylepis skinks of the Socotra Archipelago. Zoologica Scripta - 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
 
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