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Trachylepis brauni (TORNIER, 1902)

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Higher TaxaScincidae, Mabuyinae (Mabuyini), Scincoidea, Sauria, Squamata (lizards)
Subspecies 
Common NamesE: Braun's Mabuya 
SynonymMabuia brauni TORNIER 1902: 585
Mabiua [sic] hildae LOVERIDGE 1953: 209 (fide BROADLEY 2000)
Mabuya varia brauni — LOVERIDGE 1957
Mabuya brauni hildae — BROADLEY 1977: 62
Mabuya hildae — WELCH 1982: 85
Mabuya brauni — MEERMAN 1984: 175
Mabuya brauni — BROADLEY & HOWELL 1991: 15
Mabuya brauni — BROADLEY 2000
Mabuya hildae — GREER et al. 2000
Euprepis hildae — MAUSFELD et al. 2002
Euprepis brauni — MAUSFELD et al. 2002
Trachylepis brauni — BAUER 2003
Trachylepis brauni — SPAWLS et al. 2018: 136
Trachylepis hildae — PIETERSEN et al. 2021 
DistributionSW Tanzania (Mt. Kinga)

Type locality: Ukinga Mts., Tanzania.

hildae: Malawi (Nyika Plateau); Type locality: Njika Plateau, Nyasaland  
Reproductionviviparous (not imputed, fide Zimin et al. 2022) 
TypesHolotype: ZMB 17109
Holotype: MCZ R-50684 [hildae] 
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Comment 
EtymologyPresumably named after Professor Maximilian Christian Gustav Carl Braun (1850-1930), professor of zoology at the Universitat Konigsberg from 1891. He wrote Beiträge zur Biologie der Vögel von Angola (1930). Beolens erroneously stated that the species was named after Rudolf Braun, born 1908, that is, 6 years after Tornier described the species (Shea 2012). 
References
  • Beolens, Bo; Michael Watkins, and Michael Grayson 2011. The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, USA - get paper here
  • Broadley, D. G. 1977. A review of the Mabuya striata complex in South-East Africa (Sauria: Scincidae). Occ. Pap. Nat. Mus. and Mon. Rhodesia 6B (2): 45-79
  • Broadley, D. G. & HOWELL, K. M. 1991. A check list of the reptiles of Tanzania, with synoptic keys. Syntarsus 1: 1—70
  • Broadley, D.G. 2000. A review of the genus Mabuya in southeastern Africa (Sauria: Scincidae). African Journal of Herpetology, 49 (2): 87-110 - get paper here
  • 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
  • Loveridge, A. 1953. Zoological Results of a fifth expedition to East Africa. III. Reptiles from Nyasaland and Tete. Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool. Harvard 110 (3): 142-322. - get paper here
  • MAUSFELD, Patrick & Andreas SCHMITZ 2003. Molecular phylogeography, intraspecific variation and speciation of the Asian scincid lizard genus Eutropis Fitzinger, 1843 (Squamata: Reptilia: Scincidae): taxonomic and biogeographic implications. Org. Divers. Evol. 3: 161–171 - get paper here
  • Meerman, J. 1984. Mabuya brauni hildae Loveridge 1953 considered a synonym of M. brauni Tornier 1902 (Sauria: Scincidae). Amphibia-Reptilia 5 (2): 173-175 - get paper here
  • Meerman, J.C. 1979. Enkele herpetologische waarnemingen in Tanzania. Lacerta 37 (10-11): 154-163 - 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
  • Shea, G.M. 2012. (Book review) The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles by B. Beolens et al Copeia 2012 (3): 578-582. - 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, S.; Howell, K.; Drewes, R.C. & Ashe, J. 2002. A field guide to the reptiles of East Africa. Academic Press, 543 pp. [reviews in HR 34: 396 and Afr. J. Herp. 51; 147] - get paper here
  • Spawls, Steve; Kim Howell, Harald Hinkel, Michele Menegon 2018. Field Guide to East African Reptiles. Bloomsbury, 624 pp. - get paper here
  • Tornier,G. 1902. Herpetologisch Neues aus Deutsch-Ostafrika. Zool. Jahrb. Syst. 15: 578-590 - get paper here
  • Weinell, J. L., Branch, W. R., Colston, T. J., Jackman, T. R., Kuhn, A., Conradie, W., & Bauer, A. M. 2019. A species-level phylogeny of Trachylepis (Scincidae: Mabuyinae) provides insight into their reproductive mode evolution. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution - get paper here
  • Welch, K.R.G. 1982. Herpetology of Africa; a checklist and bibliography of the orders Amphisbaenia, Sauria, and Serpentes. Robert E. Krieger Pub. Co., Malabar, FL 293 pp.
  • Zimin, A., Zimin, S. V., Shine, R., Avila, L., Bauer, A., Böhm, M., Brown, R., Barki, G., de Oliveira Caetano, G. H., Castro Herrera, F., Chapple, D. G., Chirio, L., Colli, G. R., Doan, T. M., Glaw, F., Grismer, L. L., Itescu, Y., Kraus, F., LeBreton 2022. A global analysis of viviparity in squamates highlights its prevalence in cold climates. Global Ecology and Biogeography, 00, 1–16 - get paper here
 
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