Trachylepis lacertiformis

Trachylepis lacertiformis

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Scincoidea

Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Superphylum: Deuterostomia Phylum: Chordata Subphylum: Vertebrata Infraphylum: Gnathostomata Megaclassis: Osteichthyes Cladus: Sarcopterygii Cladus: Rhipidistia Cladus: Tetrapodomorpha Cladus: Eotetrapodiformes Cladus: Elpistostegalia Superclassis: Tetrapoda Cladus: Reptiliomorpha Cladus: Amniota Classis: Reptilia Cladus: Eureptilia Cladus: Romeriida Subclassis: Diapsida Cladus: Sauria Infraclassis: Lepidosauromorpha Superordo: Lepidosauria Ordo: Squamata Subordo: Scincomorpha Superfamilia: Scincoidea

Familia: Scincidae
Genus: Trachylepis
Species: Trachylepis lacertiformis

Name

Trachylepis lacertiformis (Peters, 1854)

Syntypes: ZMB 5523 (4 specimens). [lost fide Peters (pers. comm.) in Broadley (1975), and Bauer et al. (1995)]

Type locality: “Boror”, Mozambique.

Combinations

• Euprepes lacertiformis Peters, 1854: 618 [original combination]
• Mabuya lacertiformis — Loveridge, 1953: 201 [subsequent combination]
• Trachylepis lacertiformis — Bauer, 2003: 5 [subsequent combination]

Synonyms

• Mabuya damarana rhodesiana Broadley, 1960: 435 [synonymized by Broadley (1975)]
  • Holotype: NMZB-UM.
  • Type locality: “Changadzi River Bridge, on the Umtali-Birchenough Bridge road at 2000 ft, southeastern Southern Rhodesia [=Zimbabwe]”.

References

Primary references

• Broadley, D.G. 1960. Sauria, Scincidae: Mabuya damarana rhodesiana n. subsp. Occasional papers of the National Museum of Southern Rhodesia. Natural sciences 3(24B): 435–436. Reference page. 

Links

• Uetz, P. & Hallermann, J. 2024. Trachylepis lacertiformis. The Reptile Database. Accessed on 20 October 2018.

Vernacular names

English: Bronze Rock Skink