Trapelus tournevillei, (LATASTE, 1880)

Wagner, Philipp, Melville, Jane, Wilms, Thomas M. & Schmitz, Andreas, 2011, Opening a box of cryptic taxa - the first review of the North African desert lizards in the Trapelus mutabilis Merrem, 1820 complex (Squamata: Agamidae) with descriptions of new taxa, Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 163 (3), pp. 884-912 : 905-906

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scientific name	Trapelus tournevillei
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TRAPELUS TOURNEVILLEI (LATASTE, 1880)

1880 Agama tournevillei Lataste, Le Naturaliste, Paris , 2: 325. – Terra typica: Ouargla (Wargla?), Algérie.

Holotype: BMNH 1920.1 .20.1241.

Diagnosis: A medium-sized, slender Trapelus with large gular pouch. Head longer than in other African Trapelus species. Dorsal scales equal in size, strongly keeled but not mucronate, no intermixed larger scales.

Taxonomic note: This species was formerly regarded as a subspecies of T. flavimaculatus . The holotype is mentioned as lost from the Paris collection ( MNHN) by Brygoo (1988), but present in the London collection ( BMNH). The clear distinctness of this species is supported by many authors (e.g. Schleich et al., 1996; Sindaco & Jeremčenko, 2008) and in this publication.

906 P. WAGNER ET AL .