Trachylepis boulengeri

Trachylepis boulengeri, also known commonly as Boulenger's mabuya, is a species of skink, a lizard in the family Scincidae. The species is indigenous to southeastern Africa.

Trachylepis boulengeri
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Reptilia
Order:	Squamata
Family:	Scincidae
Genus:	Trachylepis
Species:	T. boulengeri
Binomial name
Trachylepis boulengeri (Sternfeld, 1911)
Synonyms[1]
Mabuia boulengeri Sternfeld, 1911 Mabuya maculilabris boulengeri — Loveridge, 1953 Mabuya boulengeri — Broadley, 1974 Euprepis boulengeri — Mausfeld et al., 2000 Trachylepis boulengeri — Bauer, 2003

Etymology

The specific name, boulengeri, is in honor of Belgian-British herpetologist George Albert Boulenger.[2]

Geographic range

T. boulengeri is found in Malawi, Mozambique, Tanzania, and Zimbabwe.[1]

References

1. Trachylepis boulengeri at the Reptarium.cz Reptile Database. Accessed 22 March 2015.
2. Beolens B, Watkins M, Grayson M (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. ISBN 978-1-4214-0135-5. (Mabuya boulengeri, p. 34).

Further reading

• Bauer AM (2003). "On the identity of Lacerta punctata Linnaeus 1758, the type species of the genus Euprepis Wagler 1830, and the generic assignment of Afro-Malagasy skinks". African Journal of Herpetology 52 (1): 1–7. (Trachylepis boulengeri, new combination).
• Spawls, Stephen; Howell, Kim; Hinkel, Harald; Menegon, Michele (2018). Field Guide to East African Reptiles, Second Edition. London: Bloomsbury Natural History. 624 pp. ISBN 978-1472935618. (Trachylepis boulengeri, p. 135).
• Sternfeld R (1911). "Zur Reptilienfauna Deutsch-Ostafrikas ". Sitzungsberichte der Gesellschaft naturforschender Freunde zu Berlin 1911: 244–251. (Mabuia boulengeri, new species, pp. 248–249). (in German).