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Trachylepis  Fitzinger, 1843
Taxonomic Serial No.: 1181695

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 Taxonomy and Nomenclature
       
  Kingdom: Animalia  
  Taxonomic Rank: Genus  
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  Current Standing: valid  
       
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  Record Credibility Rating: verified - standards met  
  Global Species Completeness: complete   
  Latest Record Review: 2022   
       

 Taxonomic Hierarchy
       
 KingdomAnimalia  – Animal, animaux, animals  
    SubkingdomBilateria  – triploblasts  
       InfrakingdomDeuterostomia   
          PhylumChordata  – cordés, cordado, chordates  
             SubphylumVertebrata  – vertebrado, vertébrés, vertebrates  
                InfraphylumGnathostomata   
                   SuperclassTetrapoda   
                      ClassReptilia Laurenti, 1768 – répteis, reptiles, Reptiles  
                         OrderSquamata Oppel, 1811 – Amphisbaenians, Lizards, Snakes, amphisbènes, lézards, serpents  
                            SuborderAutarchoglossa   
                               FamilyScincidae Oppel, 1811 – Skinks  
                                  SubfamilyMabuyinae Mittleman, 1952  
                                     GenusTrachylepis Fitzinger, 1843  
    Direct Children:  
                                        Species Trachylepis acutilabris (Peters, 1862) – Wedge-snouted Skink, Sharp-lipped Mabuya 
                                        Species Trachylepis adamastor Ceríaco, 2015 – Adamastor Skink 
                                        Species Trachylepis affinis (Gray, 1838) – Senegal Mabuya 
                                        Species Trachylepis albilabris (Hallowell, 1857) – Guinea Mabuya 
                                        Species Trachylepis albotaeniata (Boettger, 1913) – Pemba Island Skink 
                                        Species Trachylepis atlantica (Schmidt, 1945)  
                                        Species Trachylepis aureogularis (Müller, 1885) – Guinea Mabuya 
                                        Species Trachylepis aureopunctata (Grandidier, 1867) – Gold-spotted Mabuya 
                                        Species Trachylepis bayonii (Bocage, 1872) – Bayaõ's Skink, Bayon's Mabuya, Bayon's Skink 
                                        Species Trachylepis bensonii (Peters, 1867) – Benson's Mabuya 
                                        Species Trachylepis betsileana (Mocquard, 1906) – Betsileo Mabuya 
                                        Species Trachylepis binotata (Bocage, 1867) – Ovambo Tree Skink, Bocage's Mabuya 
                                        Species Trachylepis bocagii (Boulenger, 1887) – Bocage's Skink 
                                        Species Trachylepis boehmei Koppetsch, 2020 – Böhme's Grass Skink 
                                        Species Trachylepis boettgeri (Boulenger, 1887) – Boettger's Mabuya 
                                        Species Trachylepis boulengeri (Sternfeld, 1911) – Boulenger's Mabuya 
                                        Species Trachylepis brauni (Tornier, 1902) – Braun's Mabuya 
                                        Species Trachylepis brevicollis (Wiegmann, 1837) – Short-necked Skink, Sudan Mabuya 
                                        Species Trachylepis buettneri (Matschie, 1893)  
                                        Species Trachylepis capensis (Gray, 1831) – Cape Skink, Cape Three-lined Skink 
                                        Species Trachylepis casuarinae (Broadley, 1974) – Casuarina Island Skink 
                                        Species Trachylepis chimbana (Boulenger, 1887) – Chimba Skink, Chimban Mabuya 
                                        Species Trachylepis comorensis (Peters, 1854)  
                                        Species Trachylepis cristinae Sindaco, Metallinou, Pupin, Fasola and Carranza, 2012 – Abd Al Kuri Skink 
                                        Species Trachylepis damarana (Peters, 1870) – Damara Skink, Kalahari Variable Skink 
                                        Species Trachylepis depressa (Peters, 1854) – Eastern Sand Skink 
                                        Species Trachylepis dichroma Günther, Whiting and Bauer, 2005 – Two-coloured Skink 
                                        Species Trachylepis dumasi (Nussbaum and Raxworthy, 1995)  
                                        Species Trachylepis elegans (Peters, 1854) – Elegant Mabuya 
                                        Species Trachylepis ferrarai (Lanza, 1978) – Ferrara's Mabuya 
                                        Species Trachylepis gonwouoi Allen, Tapondjou, Welton and Bauer, 2017 – Gonwouo's Skink 
                                        Species Trachylepis gravenhorstii (A. M. C. Duméril and Bibron, 1839) – Gravenhorst's Mabuya 
                                        Species Trachylepis hemmingi (Gans, Laurent and Pandit, 1965) – Somali Mabuya 
                                        Species Trachylepis hildebrandtii (Peters, 1874) – Hildebrandt's Skink 
                                        Species Trachylepis hoeschi (Mertens, 1954) – Hoesch's Mabuya, Hoesch's Skink 
                                        Species Trachylepis homalocephala (Wiegmann, 1828) – Red-Sided Skink 
                                        Species Trachylepis infralineata (Boettger, 1913)  
                                        Species Trachylepis irregularis (Lönnberg, 1922) – Alpine Meadow Mabuya 
                                        Species Trachylepis keroanensis (Chabanaud, 1921) – Teita Mabuya 
                                        Species Trachylepis lacertiformis (Peters, 1854) – Bronze Rock Skink 
                                        Species Trachylepis laevigata (Peters, 1869) – Variable Skink 
                                        Species Trachylepis laevis (Boulenger, 1907) – Angolan Blue-tailed Skink 
                                        Species Trachylepis langheldi (Sternfeld, 1917) – Langheld's Skink 
                                        Species Trachylepis lavarambo (Nussbaum and Raxworthy, 1998)  
                                        Species Trachylepis loluiensis Kingdon and Spawls, 2010 – Loloui Island Skink 
                                        Species Trachylepis maculata (Gray, 1839) – Spotted Mabuya 
                                        Species Trachylepis maculilabris (Gray, 1845) – Speckle-lipped Mabuya, Speckled-lipped Skink 
                                        Species Trachylepis madagascariensis (Mocquard, 1908) – Malagasy Mabuya 
                                        Species Trachylepis makolowodei Chirio, Ineich, Schmitz and Lebreton, 2008 – Makolowodé's Trachylepis 
                                        Species Trachylepis margaritifera (Peters, 1854) – Rainbow Skink 
                                        Species Trachylepis megalura (Peters, 1878) – Grass Skink, Grass-top Skink, Long-tailed Skink 
                                        Species Trachylepis mekuana (Chirio and Ineich, 2000)  
                                        Species Trachylepis mlanjensis (Loveridge, 1953) – Mulanje Skink 
                                        Species Trachylepis monardi Marques, Ceríaco, Blackburn and Bauer, 2018 – Monard's Skink 
                                        Species Trachylepis nancycoutuae (Nussbaum and Raxworthy, 1998)  
                                        Species Trachylepis nganghae Ineich and Chirio, 2004  
                                        Species Trachylepis occidentalis (Peters, 1867) – Western Three-striped Skink 
                                        Species Trachylepis ozorii (Bocage, 1893)  
                                        Species Trachylepis paucisquamis (Hoogmoed, 1978) – Tropical Mabuya 
                                        Species Trachylepis pendeana (Ineich and Chirio, 2000)  
                                        Species Trachylepis perrotetii (A. M. C. Duméril and Bibron, 1839) – Teita Mabuya, African Red-sided Skink 
                                        Species Trachylepis planifrons (Peters, 1878) – Tree Skink 
                                        Species Trachylepis polytropis (Boulenger, 1903) – Tropical Mabuya 
                                        Species Trachylepis pulcherrima (De Witte, 1953) – Beautiful Skink 
                                        Species Trachylepis punctatissima (Smith, 1849) – Speckled Rock Skink, Montane Speckled Skink 
                                        Species Trachylepis punctulata (Bocage, 1872) – Speckled Skink, Speckled Sand Skink 
                                        Species Trachylepis quinquetaeniata (Lichtenstein, 1823) – African Five-lined Skink, Rainbow Mabuya 
                                        Species Trachylepis raymondlaurenti Marques, Ceríaco, Bandeira, Pauwels and Bauer, 2019 – Laurent's Long Tailed Skink 
                                        Species Trachylepis rodenburgi (Hoogmoed, 1974) – Rodenburg's Mabuya 
                                        Species Trachylepis sechellensis (A. M. C. Duméril and Bibron, 1839) – Seychelles Mabuya 
                                        Species Trachylepis socotrana (Peters, 1882) – Socotra Skink 
                                        Species Trachylepis sparsa (Mertens, 1954) – Karasburg Tree Skink 
                                        Species Trachylepis spilogaster (Peters, 1882) – Kalahari Tree Skink, Spiny Mabuya 
                                        Species Trachylepis striata (Peters, 1844) – Striped Skink, African Striped Mabuya 
                                        Species Trachylepis sulcata (Peters, 1867) – Western Rock Skink 
                                        Species Trachylepis tandrefana (Nussbaum, Raxworthy and Ramanamanjato, 1999)  
                                        Species Trachylepis tavaratra (Ramanamanjato, Nussbaum and Raxworthy, 1999)  
                                        Species Trachylepis tessellata (Anderson, 1895) – Tessellated Mabuya 
                                        Species Trachylepis thomensis Ceríaco, Marques and Bauer, 2016  
                                        Species Trachylepis varia (Peters, 1867) – Variable Skink 
                                        Species Trachylepis variegata (Peters, 1870) – Variegated Skink 
                                        Species Trachylepis vato (Nussbaum and Raxworthy, 1994) – Boulder Mabuya 
                                        Species Trachylepis vezo (Ramanamanjato, Nussbaum and Raxworthy, 1999)  
                                        Species Trachylepis volamenaloha (Nussbaum, Raxworthy and Ramanamanjato, 1999)  
                                        Species Trachylepis wahlbergii (Peters, 1870) – Wahlberg's Striped Skink 
                                        Species Trachylepis wingati (Werner, 1908) – Wingate's Skink 
                                        Species Trachylepis wrightii (Boulenger, 1887) – Wright's Mabuya 
       

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  Source: Reptile Database (Mar 2022), website (version Mar-2022)  
  Acquired: 2002   
  Notes: Uetz, P., Freed, P., Aguilar, R. & Hosek, J. (eds.) (2022) The Reptile Database, http://www.reptile-database.org, accessed 9 May 2022   
  Reference for: Trachylepis   
       
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  Author(s)/Editor(s): Applegarth, J. S.  
  Publication Date: 1983   
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  Journal/Book Name, Vol. No.: Index to the Genera of Reptilia - A Device to Assist Curators. Sauria (Lacertilia and Amphisbaenia), Third Edition   
  Page(s): 54   
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