Trachylepis brauni

Trachylepis brauni, also known commonly as Braun's mabuya and the Ukinga montane skink, is a species of lizard in the family Scincidae. The species is endemic to Tanzania.

Trachylepis brauni
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Reptilia
Order:	Squamata
Family:	Scincidae
Genus:	Trachylepis
Species:	T. brauni
Binomial name
Trachylepis brauni (Tornier, 1902)
Synonyms[1]
Mabuia brauni Tornier, 1902 Mabuya varia brauni — Loveridge, 1957 Mabuya brauni — Meerman, 1984 Euprepis brauni — Mausfeld et al., 2002 Trachylepis brauni — Bauer, 2003

Etymology

The specific name, brauni, is in honor of German zoologist Rudolf H. Braun (born 1908).[2]

Geographic range

T. brauni is found in southwestern Tanzania.[1]

Reproduction

T. brauni is viviparous.[3]

References

1. Trachylepis brauni at the Reptarium.cz Reptile Database. Accessed 16 September 2015.
2. Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. ISBN 978-1-4214-0135-5. (Trachylepis brauni, p. 37).
3. Weinell JL, Branch WR, Colston TJ, Jackman TR, Kuhn A, Conradie W, Bauer AM (2019). "A species-level phylogeny of Trachylepis (Scincidae: Mabuyinae) provides insight into their reproductive mode evolution". Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 136: 183–195.

Further reading

• 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 brauni, p. 136).
• Tornier G (1902). "Herpetologisch Neues aus Deutsch-Ost-Afrika ". Zoologische Jahrbücher. Abtheilung für Systematik, Geographie und Biologie der Thiere 15: 578–590. (Mabuia brauni, new species, pp. 585–586). (in German).