Trapelus schmitzi, WAGNER & BOHME, 2007

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 : 900

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.1111/j.1096-3642.2011.00726.x
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scientific name	Trapelus schmitzi
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TRAPELUS SCHMITZI WAGNER & BÖHME, 2007

2007 Trapelus schmitzi WAGNER & BÖHME, Bonn. zool. Beitr. 55: 82. – Terra typica: Guelta Archei, Ennedi Mts., Chad.

Holotype: ZFMK 2590 View Materials ( Fig. 8 View Figure 8 ).

Diagnosis: A small species of Trapelus with a short tail. Head short and thick. Gular pouch absent. Easy to identify by its homogeneous, smooth to feebly keeled dorsal scales, intermixed with only a few larger scales. Scalation of hindlimb homogeneous.

Remarks: This species was described by a single voucher from Chad. Recently, a second voucher from Algeria was identified in the MHNG collection (Wagner, Wilms & Schmitz., 2008). Andersson (1935) reported a specimen from the Hoggar Mountains with ‘scales on the back are uniform smooth, without any scattered larger scales among them’. This description clearly refers to T. schmitzi and the Hoggar Mountains are within the supposed distribution range.