Trachylepis damarana (PETERS, 1870)

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Higher Taxa	Scincidae, Mabuyinae (Mabuyini), Scincoidea, Sauria, Squamata (lizards)
Subspecies
Common Names	E: Damara skink
Synonym	Euprepes damaranus PETERS 1870: 660 Mabuya varia damaranus — LOVERIDGE 1936: 69 Mabuya damarana — FITZSIMONS & BRAIN 1958 Trachylepis varia — CONRADIE et al. 2016: 26 Trachylepis damarana — WEINELL & BAUER 2017 Trachylepis damarana — PIETERSEN et al. 2021 Trachylepis damarana — CERIACO et al. 2024: 63 Trachylepis damarana — STANDER 2023: 217
Distribution	Namibia, SE Angola, N/E Botswana, Zimbabwe, NE Republic of South Africa, W Mozambique Type locality: "Damaraland" [NC Namibia]
Reproduction	ovoviviparous
Types	Lectotype: ZMB 6153; designated from syntypes ZMB 6153 and NRM 2149, by Weinell & Bauer 2017.
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Comment	Synonymy: WEINELL & BAUER 2017 removed Euprepes (Mabuya) laevigatus PETERS 1869 from the synonymy of T. varia. Distribution: see maps in WEINELL & BAUER 2017 (Fig. 6), Stephens et al. 2022: Fig. 2 and Fig. 5, Ceriaco et al. 2024: 65 (Fig. 44).
Etymology	Named after the type locality.
References	Bittencourt-Silva GB. 2019. Herpetological survey of western Zambia. Amphibian & Reptile Conservation 13(2) [Special Section]: 1-28 (e181) - get paper here Ceríaco, Luis M.P.; Mariana P. Marques, Diogo Parrinha, Arthur Tiutenko, Jeffrey L. Weinell, Brett O. Butler & Aaron M. Bauer 2024. The Trachylepis (Squamata: Scincidae) of Angola: An Integrative Taxonomic Review with the Description of Seven New Species Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History Feb 2024 Vol. 2024, No. 465: 1-153 - get paper here Conradie W, Keates C, Verburgt L, Baptista NL, Harvey J, Júlio T, Neef G. 2022. Contributions to the herpetofauna of the Angolan Okavango-Cuando-Zambezi River drainages. Part 2: Lizards (Sauria), chelonians, and crocodiles. Amphibian & Reptile Conservation 16(2): 181–214 (e322) - get paper here Gemel, R.; G. Gassner & S. Schweiger 2019. Katalog der Typen der Herpetologischen Sammlung des Naturhistorischen Museums Wien – 2018. Ann. Naturhist. Mus. Wien, B 121: 33–248 - get paper here Marques, Mariana P.; Luis M. P. Ceríaco , David C. Blackburn , and Aaron M. Bauer 2018. Diversity and Distribution of the Amphibians and Terrestrial Reptiles of Angola -- Atlas of Historical and Bibliographic Records (1840–2017). Proc. Cal. Acad. Sci. (Ser. 4) 65: 1-501 (Supplement II) Mertens, R. 1954. Neue Eidechsen aus Südwest—Afrika. Senckenbergiana, 34:175—183 Peters, Wilhem Carl Hartwig 1870. Förtekning pa de af J. Wahlberg i Damaralandet insamlade Reptilierna. Oefversigt Kongl.Vet. Akad. Förhandl. 26 (7): 657-662 Pietersen DW, Pietersen EW, Conradie W. 2017. Preliminary herpetological survey of Ngonye Falls and surrounding regions in south-western Zambia. Amphibian & Reptile Conservation 11(1) [Special Section]: 24–43 (e148 - 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 Stander, R.I. 2023. The Reptiles of the Limpopo Province and Kruger National Park. Herp Nomad, Polokwane, South Africa, 367 pp. - get paper here STEPHENS, KIRSTIN; GRAHAM J. ALEXANDER, BUYISILE G. MAKHUBO, NICOLAS S. TELFORD & KRYSTAL A. TOLLEY. 2022. Mistaken identity: challenges with specimen identification for morphologically conservative skinks (Trachylepis) leads to taxonomic error. African Journal of Herpetology 0(0): 1–18. - get paper here Tolley KA, Telford NS, Makhubo BG, Power RJ, Alexander GJ 2023. Filling the gap: Noteworthy herpetological discoveries in North West Province, South Africa. Zoosystematics and Evolution 99(1): 101-116 - get paper here Tolley, K.A., Conradie, W., Pietersen, D.W., Weeber, J., Burger, M. & Alexander, G.J. (eds) 2023. Conservation status of the reptiles of South Africa, Eswatini and Lesotho. Suricata 10. South African National Biodiversity Institute, Pretoria Weinell, J.L., Bauer, A.M. 2017. Systematics and phylogeography of the widely distributed African skink Trachylepis varia species complex. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution - get paper here Wyk, Kurt M. van & Bryan Maritz 2025. The Agony of Choice: Comparing Abundance Estimates from Multiple N-Mixture Model Variants Fitted to a Reptile Community Dataset Journal of Herpetology Jun 2025 Vol. 59, No. 2: 60-72 - get paper here
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