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Leptosiaphos koutoui INEICH, SCHMITZ, CHIRIO & LEBRETON, 2004

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Higher TaxaScincidae, Eugongylinae (Eugongylini), Scincoidea, Sauria, Squamata (lizards)
Subspecies 
Common Names 
SynonymLeptosiaphos koutoui INEICH, SCHMITZ, CHIRIO & LEBRETON 2004
Leptosiaphos koutoui — JESUS et al. 2007 
DistributionCameroon (Adamaoua Massif, Central-Northern Province)

Type locality: Meiganga, Adamaoua Massif (06°31’N, 14°17’E) Central-Northern Province, Cameroon, 1040 m elevation.  
Reproductionoviparous. 
TypesHolotype: MNHN-RA 2001.0697; paratype: MNHN-RA 2001.0698 
DiagnosisDiagnosis:-A small (to 49 mm SVL) species of Leptosiaphos, distinguished from all other members of the genus by the following combination of characters: head relatively pointed; lower eyelid with a median, large translucent window; no supranasals; prefrontals widely separated by the frontonasal; frontoparietals in contact along a long suture, about as long as wide; parietals not separated by interparietal; one pair of nuchals; 22 scales around midbody; pentadactyl limbs, 14-15 subdigital lamellae below the fourth toe; dorsal coloration continuously reddishbrown to brownish-grey throughout; dorsal scales iridescent; a dark band (about one scale wide) from just before the eye to just before the forelimbs, diminishing after the shoulder but weakly visible to the anal region. 
CommentAbundance: only known from its original description (Meiri et al. 2017). This is one of the species called 'lost' and 'rediscovered' by Lindken et al. 2024. 
EtymologyNamed after Denis Koulagna Koutou (b. 1958) former Director of Wildlife and Protected Areas, Ministry of Environment and Forest, Cameroon. 
References
  • Beolens, Bo; Michael Watkins, and Michael Grayson 2011. The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, USA - get paper here
  • Blackburn, D.G. 1993. STANDARDIZED CRITERIA FOR THE RECOGNITION OF REPRODUCTIVE MODES IN SQUAMATE REPTILES. Herpetologica 49 (1): 118-132 - get paper here
  • Chirio, L. & Lebreton, M. 2007. Atlas des reptiles du Cameroun. MNHN, IRD, Paris 688 pp.
  • Ineich, I., A. Schmitz, L. Chirio & M. LeBreton 2004. New species of Leptosiaphos (Scincidae) from Adamaoua Massif, Central-Northern Province, Cameroon. Journal of Herpetology 38 (4): 546-550 - get paper here
  • Jesus, José; D. James Harris and António Brehm 2007. Relationships of Afroablepharus Greer, 1974 skinks from the Gulf of Guinea islands based on mitochondrial and nuclear DNA: Patterns of colonization and comments on taxonomy. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 45 (3): 904-914 - get paper here
  • Lindken T.; Anderson, C. V., Ariano-Sánchez, D., Barki, G., Biggs, C., Bowles, P., Chaitanya, R., Cronin, D. T., Jähnig, S. C., Jeschke, J. M., Kennerley, R. J., Lacher, T. E. Jr., Luedtke, J. A., Liu, C., Long, B., Mallon, D., Martin, G. M., Meiri, 2024. What factors influence the rediscovery of lost tetrapod species? Global Change Biology, 30: 1-18 - 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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