Trachylepis varia
Creators
- 1. Museu Nacional de História Natural e da Ciência, Universidade de Lisboa, Rua da Escola Politécnica, 58, 1269 - 102 Lisbon, Portugal. & Department of Natural History, Florida Museum of Natural History, Gainesville, FL, 32611, USA.
- 2. Instituto Nacional da Biodiversidade e Áreas de Conservação, Ministério do Ambiente de Angola, Centralidade do Kilamba, Rua 26 de Fevereiro, quarteirão Nimi ya Lukemi, edíficio Q 11, 3 ° andar, Angola.
- 3. Department of Natural History, Florida Museum of Natural History, Gainesville, FL, 32611, USA.
- 4. American Museum of Natural History, Central Park West at 79 th Street, New York, New York 10024, USA. & City University of New York, Graduate Center, 365 5 th Ave., New York, New York, 10016, USA.
- 5. Museu Nacional de História Natural e da Ciência, Universidade de Lisboa, Rua da Escola Politécnica, 58, 1269 - 102 Lisbon, Portugal.
- 6. Department of Herpetology, California Academy of Sciences, 55 Music Concourse Drive, San Francisco, California 94118, USA.
- 7. Department of Biology, Villanova University, 800 Lancaster Avenue, Villanova, Pennsylvania 19085 - 1699, USA.
Description
VARIABLE SKINK
Trachylepis varia (Peters, 1867)
MATERIAL.— Leba Pass, 5 December 2013, 15º4ʹ12.1ʺS, 13º14ʹ36.2ʺE, 1680 m (CAS 254874), 15º4ʹ13.2ʺS, 13º14ʹ37.7ʺE, 1676 m (CAS 254884).
COMMENTS.— The species occurs throughout Angola, with many records in the provinces of Benguela (Parker 1936; Bocage 1895, 1896; Monard 1937; Hellmich 1957a; Mertens 1938; Boulenger 1905) and Huila (Bocage 1895; Monard 1937). Although other records from Namibe are 12 km W of Humbia (TM 40128–29) and Chapeau Armado turnoff (TM 41131). This species is typically associated with relatively mesic microclimates and is, therefore, excluded from the hyperarid areas of Namibe. This skink has a broad distribution across much of sub-Saharan Africa and includes several cryptic species, two of which are present in Angola. There are records from across Angola and from all bordering countries as well. The phylogeography of the T. varia complex is presently under study (J. Weinell, pers. comm.).
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Related works
- Is part of
- Journal article: 10.5281/zenodo.11066801 (DOI)
- Journal article: http://publication.plazi.org/id/0A49FF87534D6D23FFEC5623AC39B238 (URL)
- Is source of
- https://sibils.text-analytics.ch/search/collections/plazi/F67087FF535D6D33FF9755B8AE47B775 (URL)
- https://www.gbif.org/species/228874983 (URL)
- https://www.checklistbank.org/dataset/295378/taxon/F67087FF535D6D33FF9755B8AE47B775.taxon (URL)
Biodiversity
- Collection code
- CAS
- Event date
- 2013-12-05
- Family
- Scincidae
- Genus
- Trachylepis
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Material sample ID
- CAS 254874, CAS 254884
- Order
- Squamata
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Scientific name authorship
- Peters
- Species
- varia
- Taxon rank
- species
- Verbatim event date
- 2013-12-05
- Taxonomic concept label
- Trachylepis varia (Peters, 1867) sec. Ceríaco, Sá, Bandeira, Valério, Stanley, Kuhn, Marques, Vindum, Blackburn & Bauer, 2016
References
- PARKER, H. W. 1936. Dr. Karl Jordan's Expedition to South West Africa and Angola: Herpetological collection. Novitates Zoologicae 40: 115 - 146.
- BOCAGE, J. V. B. 1895. Herpetologie d'Angola et du Congo. Ministerio da Marinha e das Colonias, Lisboa, Portugal. 203 pp., 19 pls.
- BOCAGE, J. V. B. 1896. Sur deux Agames d'Angola a ecaillure heterogene. Jornal de Sciencias Mathematicas, Physicas e Naturaes, Segunda Serie, 4 (15): 115 - 120.
- MONARD, A. 1937. Contribution a l'herpetologie d'Angola. Arquivos do Museu Bocage 8: 19 - 154.
- HELLMICH, W. 1957 a. Die Reptilienausbeute der Hamburgischen Angola Expedition. Mitteilungen aus dem Hamburgischen Zoologischen Museum und Institut 55: 39 - 80.
- MERTENS, R. 1938. Amphibien und Reptilien aus Angola gesammelt von W. Schack. Senckenbergiana 20 (6): 425 - 443.
- BOULENGER, G. A. 1905. A list of the batrachians and reptiles collected by Dr. W. J. Ansorge in Angola, with descriptions of new species. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, ser. 7, 16: 8 - 115.