Cophoscincopus simulans ( Vaillant, 1884 )

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 : 387

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Cophoscincopus simulans ( Vaillant, 1884)

Cophoscincus simulans Vaillant, 1884: 170 View in CoL .

MATERIAL EXAMINED. — 15 specimens: Togo. Misa-Höhe , ZMB 11251 (3 specimens), 16061 ; coll. GHS-W 0622 and 0624. Guinea. no precise locality, MNHN 1951.116 About MNHN , 1951.121 About MNHN , 1967.182 About MNHN and 1967.186-189 .

HABITATS AND DISTRIBUTION. — Cophoscincopus simulans is a species typically living along and in small forest creeks ( Böhme et al. 2000, 2011; Rödel & Branch 2003). It is a diurnal lizard, that was collected repeatedly by us in the forêt de Misa-Höhe. Tornier (1901) also recorded specimens from the same region: Misa-Höhe and Bismarckburg (now Yégué in Adélé). Leaché et al. (2006) found this species in the forest zone of Togo Hills in Ghana.

References

BOHME W., SCHMITZ A. & ZIEGLER T. 2000. - A review of the West African skink genus Cophoscincopus Mertens (Reptilia: Scincidae: Lygosominae): resurrection of C. simulans (Vaillant, 884) and description of a new species. Revue Suisse de Zoologie 197: 777 - 791

BOHME W., RODEL M. - O., BREDE C. & WAGNER P. 2011. - The reptiles (Testudines, Squamata, Crocodylia) of the forested Southeast of the Republic of Guinea (Guinee forestiere), with a country-wide checklist. Bonn zoological Bulletin 60: 35 - 61.

BRANCH W. R. & RODEL M. - O. 2003. - Herpetological survey of the Haute Dodo and Cavally forests, western Ivory Coast, Part II: Trapping results and reptiles. Salamandra 39: 21 - 38.

LEACHE A. D., RODEL M. - O., LINKEM C. W., DIAZ R. E., HILL- ERS A. & FUJITA M. K. 2006. - Biodiversity in a forest island: reptiles and amphibians of the West African Togo hills. Amphibian and Reptile Conservation 4: 22 - 45.

TORNIER G. 1901. - Die Crocodile, Schildkroten und Eidechsen in Togo. Archiv fur Naturgeschichte (Beiheft) 1901: 65 - 88.

VAILLANT L. 1884. - Note sur une collection de Reptiles rapportee d'Assinie par M. Chaper. Bulletin de la Societe philomathique de Paris (7) 8: 168 - 171.