Trachylepis albilabris (Hallowell, 1857)

Pauwels, Olivier S. G., Morelle, Stephan, Albert, Jean-Louis, Carlino, Piero, Rahola, Nil & Trape, Jean-François, 2019, New reptile records from Lékédi Park and Haut-Ogooué Province, southeastern Gabon, Amphibian & Reptile Conservation (e 174) 13 (1), pp. 143-161 : 148

Trachylepis albilabris (Hallowell, 1857)

A clutch of five eggs, half-buried in the ground, was found in Lékédi Park by SM on 10 October 2016. They were carefully collected and kept in a box in the park. They all safely hatched three days later. All were released except two (RBINS 18499–18500), which show a transparent disk in each lower eyelid; separated supranasals; prefrontals in contact; 4/4 supraoculars; on each side one scale separating the last supraocular and the anterior supratemporal; three keels per dorsal scale; and a tail length of 31 mm. One has 30 scale rows at midbody and a snout-vent length of 23 mm; while the other has 32 scale rows at midbody and a snout-vent length of 24 mm. So far clutches of only two or three eggs were reported for this species in Gabon ( Pauwels and Vande weghe 2008; Pauwels et al. 2017c); however it cannot be excluded that more than one clutch was here involved. New record for the park and for the Dept.; within Haut-Ogooué Prov., this skink was known so far only from Franceville in Passa Dept. ( Pauwels et al. 2016a).