Trachylepis occidentalis
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Material (three specimens): One adult specimen (MHNCUP/REP 273, formerly UP-MHNFCP-017375; Fig. S43), collected from Bahia dos Tigres [=Baía dos Tigres] [-16.58559º, 11.82709º, 98 m a.s.l.] Namibe Province, in 1905; one adult specimen (MHNCUP/REP 274, formerly UP-MHNFCP-017376), collected from Bahia dos Tigres [= Baía dos Tigres] [-16.58559º, 11.82709º, 98 m a.s.l.] Namibe Province, in 1905; one adult specimen (MHNCUP/REP 275, formerly UP-MHNFCP-040728), collected from unknown locality, date unknown.
Comments: The distribution range of T. occidentalis in Angola is mostly limited to desert regions in Namibe Province, southwestern Angola; it also occurs in central and western Namibia as well as western South Africa (Ceríaco et al. 2016a; Marques et al. 2018). None of these specimens were published by Ferreira (1904, 1906). Recently, Ceríaco et al. (2016a) collected the third published record for Angola from “Pico Azevedo” and sighted specimens (uncollected) near Espinheira camp, Namibe Province.
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Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- Peters
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Order
- Squamata
- Family
- Scincidae
- Genus
- Trachylepis
- Species
- occidentalis
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Trachylepis occidentalis (Peters, 1867) sec. Santos, Marques, Bauer & Ceríaco, 2021
References
- Ceriaco, L. M. P., De Sa, S. A. C., Bandeira, S., Valerio, H., Stanley, E. L., Kuhn, A. L., Marques, M. P., Vindum, J. V., Blackburn, D. C. & Bauer, A. M. (2016 a) Herpetological survey of the Iona National Park and Namibe National Park, Angola, with a synoptic list of the amphibians and reptiles of Namibe Province, southwestern Angola. Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences, Series 4, 63 (2), 15 - 61.
- Marques, M. P., Ceriaco, L. M. P., Blackburn, D. C. & Bauer, A. M. (2018) Diversity and distribution of the amphibians and terrestrial reptiles of Angola atlas of historical and bibliographic records (1840 - 2017). Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences, Series 4, 65 (Supplement 2), 1 - 501.
- Ferreira, J. B. (1904) Reptis e amphibios de Angola da regiao ao norte do Quanza (Colleccao Newton 1903). Jornal de Sciencias Mathematicas Physicas e Naturaes, Segunda Serie, 7 (25), 111 - 117.
- Ferreira, J. B. (1906) Algumas especies novas ou pouco conhecidas de amphibios e reptis de Angola (Coleccao Newton - 1903 - 1904). Jornal de Sciencias Mathematicas Physicas e Naturaes, Segunda Serie, 7 (26), 159 - 171.