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
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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)
.