Trachylepis wingati

Trachylepis wingati, also known commonly as Wingate's skink, is a species of lizard in the family Scincidae. The species is indigenous to northeastern Africa.

Trachylepis wingati
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Squamata
Family: Scincidae
Genus: Trachylepis
Species:
T. wingati
Binomial name
Trachylepis wingati
(F. Werner, 1908)
Synonyms[1]
  • Mabuia wingatii
    F. Werner, 1908
  • Euprepis wingati
    — Mausfeld & Schmitz, 2003
  • Trachylepis wingati
    — Bauer, 2003
  • Mabuya wingatii
    — Largen & Spawls, 2010
  • Trachylepis (Mabuya) wingatii
    — Kirschey, 2016

Etymology

The specific name, wingati, is in honor of Francis Reginald Wingate, who was a General in the British Army and the first British Governor of Sudan.[2]

Geographic range

T. wingati is found in Ethiopia and Sudan.[1]

Description

T. wingati may attain a snout-to-vent length (SVL) of 10 cm (3.9 in). The tail is slightly longer than the SVL.[3]

Reproduction

The mode of reproduction of T. wingati is unknown.[1]

References
  1. Trachylepis wingati at the Reptarium.cz Reptile Database. Accessed 22 March 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 wingati, p. 288).
  3. Werner F (1908).

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 wingati, new combination).
  • Werner F (1908). "Ergebnisse der mit Subvention aus der Erbschaft Treitl unternommenen zoologischen Forschungsreise Dr. Franz Werner's nach dem ägyptischen Sudan und Nord-Uganda. XII. Die Reptilien und Amphibien ". Sitzungsberichte der Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftlichen Klasse der Kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften 116: 1823–1926 + Plates I–IV. (Mabuia wingatii, new species, pp. 1848–1850 + Plate II, figures 3, 3a). (in German).


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