Eumecia johnstoni (BOULENGER, 1897)

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Higher Taxa	Scincidae, Mabuyinae (Mabuyini), Scincoidea, Sauria, Squamata (lizards)
Subspecies
Common Names
Synonym	Lygosoma (Riopa) johnstoni BOULENGER 1897: 801 Riopa (Eumecia) johnstoni — SMITH 1937: 230 Riopa johnstoni — LOVERIDGE 1953 Eumecia johnstonei — GREER 2001 Eumecia johnstoni — PIETERSEN et al. 2021
Distribution	Malawi (“Nyasaland”) Type locality: “Nyika Plateau”
Reproduction	ovoviviparous
Types	Holotype: BMNH 1946.8.21.90 (formerly 97.6.9.65), Nyika Plateau, N Nyassaland, collected Sir H.H. Johnston.
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Comment	Abundance: only known from the type locality (Meiri et al. 2017).
Etymology	Named after Sir Harry Hamilton Johnston (1858-1927), a formidable explorer, colonial administrator, painter, photographer, cartographer, naturalist, writer, and Queen Victoria's first Commissioner and Consul-General to British Central Africa. He presented the specimens to the British Museum (Beolens et al. 2011).
References	Beolens, Bo; Michael Watkins, and Michael Grayson 2011. The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, USA - get paper here Boulenger, G.A. 1897. A list of the reptiles and batrachians collected in northern Nyasssaland by Mr. Alex Whyte, F.Z.S., and presented to the British Museum by Sir Harry H. Johnston, K.C.B., with descriptions of new species. Proc. Zool. Soc. London 1897: 800-803 - get paper here Greer, Allen E. 2001. Distribution of maximum snout-vent length among species of Scincid lizards. Journal of Herpetology 35 (3): 383-395 - get paper here Greer,A.E. 1967. The generic relationships of the African scincid genus Eumecia. Breviora (276): 1-9 - get paper here Meiri, Shai; Aaron M. Bauer, Allen Allison, Fernando Castro-Herrera, Laurent Chirio, Guarino Colli, Indraneil Das, Tiffany M. Doan, Frank Glaw, Lee L. Grismer, Marinus Hoogmoed, Fred Kraus, Matthew LeBreton, Danny Meirte, Zoltán T. Nagy, Cristiano d 2017. Extinct, obscure or imaginary: the lizard species with the smallest ranges. Diversity and Distributions 24 (2): 262-273 - get paper here Pietersen, Darren, Verburgt, Luke & Davies, John 2021. Snakes and other reptiles of Zambia and Malawi. Struik Nature / Penguin Random House South Africa, 376 pp., ISBN 9781775847373 Smith, M.A. 1937. A review of the genus Lygosoma (Scincidae: Reptilia) and its allies. Records of the Indian Museum 39 (3): 213-234
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