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Panaspis togoensis (WERNER, 1902)

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Higher TaxaScincidae, Eugongylinae (Eugongylini), Scincoidea, Sauria, Squamata (lizards)
Subspecies 
Common NamesE: Togo Lidless Skink 
SynonymLygosoma togoense WERNER 1902: 337
Lygosoma kitsoni BOULENGER 1913: 565
Lygosoma (Riopa) houyi STERNFELD 1916
Lygosoma spurelli BOULENGER 1917: 407
Lygosoma (Riopa) dahomeyense CHABANAUD 1917
Paralygosoma monneti CHABANAUD 1917 (fide BÖHME et al. 2011: 5)
Riopa (Panaspis) togoense — SMITH 1937: 229
Riopa (Panaspis) kitsoni — SMITH 1937: 229
Lygosoma (Panaspis) breviceps togoense (non WERNER) LOVERIDGE 1952: 237
Panaspis kitsoni — GREER 1974: 29
Panaspis breviceps togoense — HOOGMEOD 1980
Leptosiaphos (Lacertaspis) kitsonii — BROADLEY 1989: 441
Panaspis kitsoni — LEBRETON 1999
Leptosiaphos togoensis — GREENBAUM & CARR 2005
Panaspis togoensis — CHIRIO & INEICH 2006 
DistributionIvory Coast, Central African Republic, Nigeria; Ashanti (fide SMITH 1937), Cameroon, Ghana, Benin, Burkina Faso, Niger, probably in Chad (L. Chirio, pers. comm.), Guinea (Conakry), Republic of South Sudan (RSS), Sudan (Jumhūriyyat)

Type locality: Atakpame, Togo

kitsoni: Democratic Republic of Congo (Zaire: Ruwenzori Mountains). Reported from Cameroon by Fuhn 1972. Type locality: “Western Province of Southern Nigeria”  
Reproductionoviparous 
TypesHolotype: ZMB 18911
Syntypes: BMNH 1908.10.12.2 / 1946.8.15.72; 1912.2.15.42 / 1946.8.15.73 [kitsoni]
Holotype: ZMB 25478 [houyi]
Syntypes: MNHN 1917.17, 1917.78–80 [dahomeyense] 
Diagnosis 
CommentSynonymy after SCHMITZ 2005, partly after PERRET 1973, FUHN 1969. 
EtymologyNamed after the type locality. 
References
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