Trachylepis wahlbergii

Trachylepis wahlbergii
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Reptilia
Order:	Squamata
Family:	Scincidae
Genus:	Trachylepis
Species:	T. wahlbergii
Binomial name
Trachylepis wahlbergii (W. Peters, 1870)
Synonyms[1]
Euprepes Wahlbergii W. Peters, 1870 Mabuya ellenbergeri Chabanaud, 1917 Mabuya striata FitzSimons, 1943 (part) Mabuya striata wahlbergi — Broadley, 1971 Mabuya wahlbergi — Branch, 1993 Trachylepis striata wahlbergii — Klitscher, 2014 Trachylepis wahlbergii — Marques et al., 2018

Trachylepis wahlbergii, also known commonly as Wahlberg's striped skink, is a species of lizard in the family Scincidae. The species is native to Southern Africa.

Taxonomy

Trachylepis wahlbergii has been considered a subspecies of Trachylepis striata. Whether T. wahlbergii is truly distinct from T. striata is not fully settled.[1]

Geographic range

T. wahlbergii occurs in southern Angola, northern Botswana, northern Namibia, western Mozambique, Zambia, and northern, western and southern Zimbabwe.[1]

Etymology

The specific name, wahlbergi, is in honour of Swedish Naturalist Johan August Wahlberg.[2]

Reproduction

T. wahlbergii is viviparous.[1]

References

1. Trachylepis wahlbergii at the Reptarium.cz Reptile Database. Accessed 28 April 2020.
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 wahlbergii, p. 278).

Further reading

• Peters W (1870). "Förteckning på de af J. Wahlberg i Damaralandet insamlade Reptilierna: Enumeratio Amphibiorum quae beat. J. Wahlberg anno 1854 ad 1855 in Africa occidentali (Damara) collegit ". Öfversigt af Kongl. Vetenskaps-Akademien Förhandlingar 26 (7): 657–662. (Euprepes wahlbergii, new species, p. 661). (in Swedish and Latin).