Lepidothyris Cope, 1892

Segniagbeto, Gabriel Hoinsoude, Trape, Jean-François, Afiademanyo, Komlan M., Rödel, Mark-Oliver, Ohler, Annemarie, Dubois, Alain, David, Patrick, Meirte, Danny, Glitho, Isabelle Adolé, Petrozzi, Fabio & Luiselli, Luca, 2015, Checklist of the lizards of Togo (West Africa), with comments on systematics, distribution, ecology, and conservation, Zoosystema 37 (2), pp. 381-402 : 387

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https://doi.org/ 10.5252/z2015n2a7

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https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4578210

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Lepidothyris Cope, 1892
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Genus Lepidothyris Cope, 1892

Lepidothyris fernandi ( Burton, 1836) ( Fig. 4 View FIG )

Tiliqua fernandi Burton, 1836: 62 .

MATERIAL EXAMINED. — 14 specimens: Togo. Badou , MNHN 2006.2243 About MNHN , ZMB 77925-77929 View Materials ; Notsé , MNHN 2006.2242 About MNHN ; Badou , ZMB 77925-77929 View Materials .

Bénin. No precise locality, MNHN 1986.768-769.

HABITATS, NATURAL HISTORY AND DISTRIBUTION. — Lepidothyris fernandi is essentially a forest species, although in Nigeria it may also be found in plantations at the border of the main forest ( Akani et al. 2009). This species is usually active in the evening, and most of the specimens spend the whole day inside their burrows ( Akani et al. 2009). Isopoda and Coleoptera dominated in the dietary samples of Nigerian specimens, but also other lizards were frequently eaten (at least in swamp forest habitat during the wet season; Eniang et al. 2014b). This species is here recorded for the first time from Togo, although many individuals (for instance, up to 1540 specimens between 2001 and 2005) are regularly exported every year for the pet trade. The genus attribution of this species follows Wagner et al. (2009).

MNHN

Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Reptilia

Order

Squamata

Family

Scincidae

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Lepidothyris Cope, 1892

Segniagbeto, Gabriel Hoinsoude, Trape, Jean-François, Afiademanyo, Komlan M., Rödel, Mark-Oliver, Ohler, Annemarie, Dubois, Alain, David, Patrick, Meirte, Danny, Glitho, Isabelle Adolé, Petrozzi, Fabio & Luiselli, Luca 2015
2015
Loc

Tiliqua fernandi

BURTON E. 1836: 62
1836
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