Trachylepis sulcata ansorgii (Boulenger, 1907)

Conradie, Werner, Keates, Chad, Verburgt, Luke, Baptista, Ninda L., Harvey, James, Júlio, Timóteo & Neef, Götz, 2022, Contributions to the herpetofauna of the Angolan Okavango-Cuando-Zambezi River drainages. Part 2: Lizards (Sauria), chelonians, and crocodiles, Amphibian & Reptile Conservation (e 322) 16 (2), pp. 181-214 : 204

Trachylepis sulcata ansorgii (Boulenger, 1907)

Western Rock Skink ( Fig. 35 , Map 32)

Material (1 specimen): PEM R 23368, en route to Cuito, east of Huambo, -12.73615° 15.97442°, 1,777 m asl. Description: Dorsal scales with five keels each; scales under toes smooth; 39 midbody scale rows; 53 transverse ventral scale rows; 49 transverse dorsal scale rows; 5/5 supralabials; 7/7 infralabials; 5/5 supraciliaries; 23 subdigital lamellae under 4 th toe. Size: 80.6 + 0t mm. Habitat and natural history notes: Rupicolous skink found in sympatry with Agama planiceps and Afroedura wulfhaackei . Comment: Both Butler et al. (2019) and Weinell et al. (2019) showed that T. s. ansorgii deserves full species recognition. As this species group is still under taxonomic revision, we mapped it at the species level. Not collected within the core study area, but this record contributes to the overall distribution of this species and the region and this species is expected to occur along the western edge of the study area.

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Fig. 35. Adult female Trachylepis sulcata ansorgii (PEM R23368) from en route between Huambo and Cuito. Photo by Luke Verburgt.