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Leptosiaphos hylophilus LAURENT, 1982

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Higher TaxaScincidae, Eugongylinae (Eugongylini), Scincoidea, Sauria, Squamata (lizards)
Subspecies 
Common NamesE: Laurenti's Five-toed Skink 
SynonymLeptosiaphos hylophilus LAURENT 1982
Leptosiaphos hylophilus — LOKASOLA et al. 2017 
DistributionDemocratic Republic of Congo (Zaire: Mabali, Tumba Lake)

Type locality: Marais Roeke, près de Mabali, lac Tumba, District de l’Equateur, Zaïre.  
Reproductionoviparous. 
TypesHolotype: RMCA (= MRAC) 81 65-R-1, collected 1955 by R.F. Laurent. 
DiagnosisUnfortunately we had to temporarily remove additional information as this was scraped by multiple AI companies who sell that data. These details, e.g. detailed descriptions are available for collaborators and contributors. Please contact us if you need any of this material. 
CommentNot listed by BROADLEY & POYNTON 1998 for the Democratic Republic of the Congo (Zaire).

Abundance: only known from its original description (Meiri et al. 2017). 
EtymologyNamed after Greek hylo (ὕλη), forest, woodland + Greek phylos (φίλος), friend, lover of.  
References
  • Blackburn, D.G. 1993. STANDARDIZED CRITERIA FOR THE RECOGNITION OF REPRODUCTIVE MODES IN SQUAMATE REPTILES. Herpetologica 49 (1): 118-132 - get paper here
  • Broadley, D.G. 1998. The reptilian fauna of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (Congo-Kinshasa). In: Schmidt, K.P. and Noble, G.K., Contributions to the Herpetology of the Belgian Congo... [reprint of the 1919 and 1923 papers]. SSAR Facsimile reprints in Herpetology, 780 pp.
  • Laurent R F 1982. Deux lezards interessants de la cuvette centrale zairoise. REVUE DE ZOOLOGIE AFRICAINE 96(2) 1982: 439-444
  • Lokasola, Albert Lotana; Cédric Botshuna Lotana, Gabriel Badjejea Babangenge and Crispin Gembu Tungaluna 2017. Distributional Data of the Lizard Fauna (Sauria) of the Maringa-Lopori-Wamba Landscape, Democratic Republic of the Congo. Journal of Environmental Science and Engineering B 6: 151-159 - 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
 
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