Checklist of the lizards of Togo (West Africa), with comments on systematics, distribution, ecology, and conservation Author Segniagbeto, Gabriel Hoinsoude Zoologie et Biologie animale, Faculté des Sciences, Université de Lomé, BP 1515, Lomé (Togo) h _ segniagbeto @ yahoo. fr segniagbeto@yahoo.fr Author Trape, Jean-François Laboratoire de Paludologie et Zoologie médicale, Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD), Centre de Dakar, BP 1386, Dakar (Sénégal) jean-francois. trape @ ird. fr trape@ird.fr Author Afiademanyo, Komlan M. Zoologie et Biologie animale, Faculté des Sciences, Université de Lomé, BP 1515, Lomé (Togo) kafiade @ gmail. com kafiade@gmail.com Author Rödel, Mark-Oliver Naturkunde, Leibniz Institute for Evolution and Biodiversity Science, Invalidenstr. 43, 10115 Berlin (Germany) mo. roedel @ mfn-berlin. de Author Ohler, Annemarie Author Dubois, Alain Author David, Patrick Institut de Systématique, Évolution, Biodiversité, ISYEB - UMR 7205 - CNRS, MNHN, UPMC, EPHE, national d’Histoire naturelle, Sorbonne Universités, Département de Systématique & Évolution, case postale 30, 57 rue Cuvier, F- 75005 Paris (France) ohler @ mnhn. fr, adubois @ mnhn. fr, pdavid @ mnhn. fr adubois@mnhn.fr Author Meirte, Danny Royal Museum for Central Africa, Department of African Zoology, Vertebrate Section, Leuvensesteenweg 13, 3080 Tervuren (Belgium) danny. meirte @ africamuseum. be meirte@africamuseum.be Author Glitho, Isabelle Adolé Zoologie et Biologie animale, Faculté des Sciences, Université de Lomé, BP 1515, Lomé (Togo) Author Petrozzi, Fabio Author Luiselli, Luca Delta Ecology and Biodiversity Conservation Unit, Department of Applied and Environmental Biology, Rivers State University of Science and Tecnology PMB 5080, Port Harcourt, Rivers State (Nigeria) fapetrozzi @ gmail. com, lucamlu @ tin. it fapetrozzi@gmail.com text Zoosystema 2015 2015-06-26 37 2 381 402 http://zoobank.org/b6713fc6-b1cd-4e20-bf33-ef174cb77317 journal article 10.5252/z2015n2a7 1638-9387 4577806 B6713FC6-B1CD-4E20-BF33-EF174CB77317 Genus Tarentola Gray, 1825 Tarentola ephippiata O’Shaughnessy, 1875 ( Fig. 14 ) Tarentola ephippiata O’Shaughnessy, 1875: 263 . MATERIAL EXAMINED. — 8 specimens : Togo . Mango , ZMB 16627 and 16306 ; coll. GHS-W 1892-1895; Sabiegou , MNHN 2006.2200 . Ghana . Kété Kratchi , ZMB 16307 . HABITATS AND DISTRIBUTION. — Tarentola ephippiata is a species occurring essentially in the Sudanese savannah zone. However, it can be found also in the hilly open and dry forests of ecological zone II. This species was first mentioned for Togo by Tornier (1901) for Mango and Yendi (nowadays in Ghana ), and later by Loveridge (1947) and Bauer et al. (2006) .