Higher Taxa | Scincidae, Eugongylinae (Eugongylini), Scincoidea, Sauria, Squamata (lizards) |
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Common Names | E: Laurenti's Five-toed Skink |
Synonym | Leptosiaphos hylophilus LAURENT 1982 Leptosiaphos hylophilus — LOKASOLA et al. 2017 |
Distribution | Democratic Republic of Congo (Zaire: Mabali, Tumba Lake)
Type locality: Marais Roeke, près de Mabali, lac Tumba, District de l’Equateur, Zaïre.
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Reproduction | oviparous. |
Types | Holotype: RMCA (= MRAC) 81 65-R-1, collected 1955 by R.F. Laurent. |
Diagnosis | Additional details, e.g. a detailed description or comparisons (2339 characters), are available for collaborators and contributors. Please contact us for details. |
Comment | Not listed by BROADLEY & POYNTON 1998 for the Democratic Republic of the Congo (Zaire).
Abundance: only known from its original description (Meiri et al. 2017). |
Etymology | Named 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 - get paper here
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