Trachylepis affinis
Creators: name: Sánchez-Vialas, Alberto
name: Calvo-Revuelta, Marta
name: Riva, Ignacio De La
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Reptilia
Squamata
Scincidae
Trachylepis
Trachylepis affinis

description: Trachylepis affinis (Gray, 1838)
Figure 12C
Tiliqua affinis Gray, 1838: 289. Type locality: not stated.
Euprepis blandingii Hallowell, 1844: 58. Type locality: “ Liberia, W. Africa ”.
Euprepis raddoni Gray, 1845: 112. Type locality: “ West Africa ”.
Euprepes (Euprepis) aeneofuscus Peters, 1864: 54. Type locality: “ Elmina ” (Ghana).
Euprepes gracilis Bocage, 1872: 77. Type locality: “ Bissau ”.
Euprepes stangeri Müller, 1882: 159. Type locality: “ Akropong ” (Ghana).
Euprepes pantaenii Fischer, 1885: 90. Type locality: “a: Sierra Leone, b: Cameroon ”.
Euprepes cupreus Fischer, 1886: 6. Type locality: “ Insel St. Thomé ”.
Mabuia affinis (Gray, 1838): Boulenger 1887: 166.
Euprepis affinis (Gray, 1838): Mausfeld-Lafdhiya et al. 2002 (by implication).
Trachylepis affinis (Gray, 1838): Bauer 2003 (by implication).
Distribution. Widely distributed from West Africa (Senegal) to Central Africa (South Sudan), southward to Angola, including small islands such as Príncipe. In Equatorial Guinea it has been recorded in Bioko at Pico Basilé (Bocage 1895 a, 1903), Punta Frailes (Boulenger 1906), Bococo (Mertens 1941), San Carlos de Luba (Mertens 1964a), and Malabo (Pérez del Val 2001), and in Río Muni at Río Benito (Boulenger 1901, Hoogmoed 1974), Cabo San Juan (Boulenger 1905), Evinayong (Hoogmoed 1974), and Monte Alén National Park (Lasso et al. 2002) including Monte Mitra forest (Gonwouo & Nsang 2005) (Map 13B).
Comments. This is the lizard most commonly found in Monte Mitra region (Gonwouo & Nsang 2005). This taxon belongs to a species complex pending further systematic revisions. It contains two main lineages, one from West Africa (Ghana) and the other from Central-West Africa (Allen et al. 2019).
Specimens examined. Eighty-three specimens. Bioko: without specific locality (MNCN 5786); Catedral Santa María, Malabo, 07 January 1973 (EBD 22177); Malabo 09-12 January 1933 (MNCN 5797–5798), January 1941 (MNCN 5806), 04–12 July 1957 (MNCN 9891); Ela Nguema, Malabo, 17 September 1984 (EBD 18678); Malabo, 1 November 1983 (EBD 22052), February, 1986 (EBD 20381), 20 June 1986 (EBD 21394, EBD 23541–23543); Las Caracolas, Finca Carboneras, Malabo, 14 June 1984 (EBD 18703). Río Muni: Cabo San Juan (MNCN 5813), 17 August 1901 (MNCN 5811) [likely part of the material examined by Boulenger (1905)]; Asonga, Bata, 4 Agosto 1984 (EBD 18704–18706), 23 April 1986 (EBD 20837); Mbini (a orillas del río Woro) (banks of the Uoro River), 17 June 1987 (EBD 27492–27495); Covadonga, Corisco Island, 8 November 1985 (EBD 20955); Bome, Bata, 1 August 1987 (EBD 27490); San Joaquín de Ndyiacom, 1990 (EBD 31521_B-8497); Equatorial Guinea (1989– 1990) (EBD 32032); Cogo, April-June 1964 (EBD 2814–2839); Finca de los Cocos, Cogo, Bata, from April to June 1964 (EBD 2803–2840); Mbini, 11 June 1987 (EBD 27691).
description: Published as part of Sánchez-Vialas, Alberto, Calvo-Revuelta, Marta & Riva, Ignacio De La, 2022, Synopsis of the terrestrial Reptiles of Equatorial Guinea, pp. 1-197 in Zootaxa 5202 (1) on page 51, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5202.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/7285600