Published December 3, 2025
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Trachylepis tessellata
Authors/Creators
- 1. Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, Taibah University, Al-Madinah Al-Munawwarah, Saudi Arabia
- 2. Department of Environmental Health, College of Public Health, Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University, Dharan, Saudi Arabia
- 3. Department of Biology, The University of Jordan, Amman, Jordan
- 4. Department of Biology, Jordan University of Science & Technology, Irbid, Jordan
Description
Trachylepis tessellata (Anderson, 1895)
Fig. 6 H
Material examined.
IRC 005–006, Tarout Island – Al Halal Farm, 31 August 2024.
Remarks.
This species was first recorded from Saudi Arabia by Aloufi et al. (2023) around the Dahran area. The Tessellated Skink is known to occur in Yemen, Oman, and the United Arab Emirates (Carranza et al. 2021). It prefers humid areas among the farmlands in the Eastern Province. This species was reported from Masirah Island, Oman (Carranza et al. 2021).
Notes
Published as part of Aloufi, Abdulhadi, Al Zayer, Mohammed, Abu Baker, Mohammad A. & Amr, Zuhair S., 2025, Reptiles and amphibians of the Saudi islands in the Arabian Gulf, pp. 379-391 in Herpetozoa 38 on pages 379-391, DOI: 10.3897/herpetozoa.38.e172180
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- Anderson
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Family
- Scincidae
- Genus
- Trachylepis
- Species
- tessellata
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Trachylepis tessellata (Anderson, 1895) sec. Aloufi, Zayer, Baker & Amr, 2025
References
- Aloufi A, Al Zayer M, Amr ZS (2023) Reptiles and amphibians of along the coastal area of the Eastern Province, Saudi Arabia. Ecologica Montenegrina 68: 66–87. https://doi.org/10.37828/em.2023.68.7