Trachylepis polytropis ( Boulenger, 1903 )

Segniagbeto, Gabriel Hoinsoude, Trape, Jean-François, Afiademanyo, Komlan M., Rödel, Mark-Oliver, Ohler, Annemarie, Dubois, Alain, David, Patrick, Meirte, Danny, Glitho, Isabelle Adolé, Petrozzi, Fabio & Luiselli, Luca, 2015, Checklist of the lizards of Togo (West Africa), with comments on systematics, distribution, ecology, and conservation, Zoosystema 37 (2), pp. 381-402 : 386

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scientific name	Trachylepis polytropis ( Boulenger, 1903 )
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Trachylepis polytropis ( Boulenger, 1903)

Mabuia polytropis Boulenger, 1903: 433 View in CoL .

MATERIAL EXAMINED. — 5 specimens: Togo. Kebo-Dzigbe (Monts Agou), MRAC A7-036-R-0041 ; coll. JFT 2510, coll. GHS-W 1887-1889.

Cameroon. Bipindi ZMB 21236a, 21236b.

HABITATS AND DISTRIBUTION. — The specimens are the first recorded for Togo. They have been collected in the Agou Mountain forest. The presence of this species in other sites within the forested area of Togo, specifically around Badou and Assoukoko, along the Ghana border, seems possible.

NOTES

We assigned the individuals from Agou Mountain to Trachylepis polytropis ( Boulenger, 1903) in spite of the fact that a similar species was described in Ghana ( Trachylepis paucisquamis ( Hoogmoed, 1978) . The specimens of Agou Mountain are very robust and with coloration being characterized by the presence of the transversal black band on the dorsal. Hoogmoed’s species, Trachylepis paucisquamis ( Hoogmoed, 1978) is more slender and apparently occurs in more western regions in Africa (western Ghana, Ivory Coast, Liberia) than does T. polytropis (see Hoogmoed 1978).