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Higher TaxaScincidae, Mabuyinae (Mabuyini), Scincoidea, Sauria, Squamata (lizards)
Subspecies 
Common NamesE: Golden Grass Mabuya, Southern Grass Skink
G: Goldstreifenskink, Goldmabuye 
SynonymEuprepis septemtaeniatus REUSS 1834: 47
Euprepes septemtaeniatus — DUMÉRIL & BIBRON 1839: 680
Euprepes septemtaeniatus — BOETTGER 1880
Mubuia [sic] septemtaeniata — BOULENGER 1887: 177
Mabuia septemtaeniata — WERNER 1896
Euprepes massauensis — HEMPRICH & EHRENBERG in TORNIER 1899
Mabuia septentaeniata [sic] — WERNER 1917
Mubuia [sic] septemtaeniata — BOULENGER 1920: 353
Mabouia septemtaeniata — PRACTER 1921
Mabuya aurata septemtaeniata — SCHMIDT 1939
Mabuya aurata septemtaeniata — KHALAF 1959
Mabuya septemtaeniata — KHALAF 1961
Mabuya aurata septemtaeniata — ENGELMANN et al. 1993
Euprepis septemtaeniatus — MAUSFELD et al. 2002
Trachylepis aurata septemtaeniata — BAUER 2004
Trachylepis septemtaeniatus — BAUER 2003
Trachylepis septemtaeniatus — MORAVEC et al. 2006
Trachylepis aurata septemtaeniata — RASTEGAR-POUYANI 2006
Mabuya septemtaeniata septemtaeniata — SINDACO & JEREMČENKO 2008
Trachylepis septemtaeniata — RASTEGAR-POUYANI et al. 2008
Trachylepis septemtaeniata — SINDACO et al. 2012
Trachylepis septemtaeniata — GARDNER 2013
Trachylepis aurata septemtaeniata — MOHAMMED et al. 2015
Heremites septemtaeniatus — KARIN et al. 2016
Heremites septemtaeniatus — MASROOR et al. 2021
Heremites septemtaeniats — SAFI et al. 2024 (in error) 
DistributionS Iran, lowland Iraq, Syria, Turkey, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Turkmenistan, NE Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Bahrain, N Oman, United Arab Emirates (UAE), Eritrea, NW/NE Afghanistan, N Pakistan

Type locality: Massawa, Eritrea  
Reproduction 
TypesLectotype: SMF 14141 
DiagnosisDiagnosis: 60-62 gular and ventral scales, third supraocular connect to frontal shield (Fig. 2), without complete dark wide band with white spots on the flank (Fig 4 in BAHMANI et al. 2016). For a more detailed list of characters see Masroor et al. 2021. 
CommentSee also T. aurata.

Distribution: M. (aurata) septemtaeniata has been erroneously reported from Armenia, Caucasus. See map in SMID et al. 2014 for distribution in Iran. See map in Burriel-Carranza et al. 2019 for map in UAE. See Masroor et al. 2021 for comprehensive map.

Synonymy: Lönnberg (1896, ex Andersson 1900) examined the Uppsala syntype of L. aurata and determined it as Mabuia septemtaeniata. Later, Andersson (1900) studied the remaining three Stockholm syntypes and associated them with names of three quite different skink species: Mabuia bistriata (Spix, 1825), Mabuia homalocephala (Wiegmann, 1828) and Mabuia multifasciata (Kuhl, 1820) [cited after Moravec et al. 2006]. 
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