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Trachylepis planifrons (PETERS, 1878)

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Higher TaxaScincidae, Mabuyinae (Mabuyini), Scincoidea, Sauria, Squamata (lizards)
Subspecies 
Common NamesE: Tree skink 
SynonymEuprepes (Euprepis) planifrons PETERS 1878: 203
Euprepes (Euprepis) taitanus PETERS 1878: 203
Mabuia diesneri STERNFELD 1911: 248 (fide LOVERIDGE 1957: 211)
Mabuia planifrons — CALABRESI 1923
Mabuya planifrons — PARKER 1942: 87
Mabuya planifrons — LANZA 1983
Mabuya planifrons — GREER et al. 2000
Mabuya planifrons — BROADLEY & HOWELL 1991: 15
Euprepis planifrons — MAUSFELD et al. 2002
Trachylepis planifrons — BAUER 2003
Mabuya planifrons — LARGEN & SPAWLS 2010: 398
Trachylepis planifrons — SPAWLS et al. 2018: 145
Trachylepis planifrons — WEINELL et al. 2019 
DistributionEthiopia, Somalia, Kenya, Tanzania, S Democratic Republic of the Congo (Zaire), N Zambia, Uganda, N Malawi, Republic of South Sudan (RSS)

Type locality: “Taita”, Kenya.

upembae: Congo; Type locality: Upemba National Park, DR Congo.  
Reproductionoviparous (not imputed, fide Zimin et al. 2022) 
TypesSyntypes: ZMB 9279, 9279A-C
Holotype: ZMB 9280 [Euprepes taitanus]
Holotype: ZMB 22159 [Mabuia diesneri] 
Diagnosis 
CommentLOVERIDGE 1956 considered Mabuya perroteti upembae as a synonym of T. planifrons.

Habitat: arboreal 
References
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