Trachylepis margaritifer (Peters, 1854)

Conradie, Werner, Bittencourt-Silva, Gabriela B., Engelbrecht, Hanlie M., Loader, Simon P., Menegon, Michele, Nanvonamuquitxo, Cristovao, Scott, Michael & Tolley, Krystal A., 2016, Exploration into the hidden world of Mozambique's sky island forests: new discoveries of reptiles and amphibians, Zoosystematics and Evolution 92 (2), pp. 163-180 : 171

Trachylepis margaritifer (Peters, 1854)

Material

Mt. M’pàluwé ( PEM R21226 , female, 97.1 mm SVL; PEM R21227 , female, 101.7 mm SVL) .

Comments

Two adult females were collected from the Oasis Water Camp running among outbuildings and on rocky slopes. Broadley and Bauer (1998) recorded this species from a handful of records from the northern Mozambique, presumably based on records collected by Blake (1965). Our record from Mt. M’pàluwé just fills in the gap between Blake’s (1965) Morrumbala and Nampula records. Portik et al. (2013a) also recorded this species from Lichinga further north and Branch et al. (2005) recorded them from Niassa Game Reserve.