Trachylepis affinis ( Gray, 1838 )

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 : 384-385

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Trachylepis affinis ( Gray, 1838)

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Tiliqua affinis Gray, 1838: 289 .

MATERIAL EXAMINED. — 50 specimens: Togo. Agoté, coll. GHS-W 0888 and 0889, coll. JFT 1699 ; Akloa, coll. GHS-W 0621, coll. JFT 1699; Alédjo, coll. JFT 2312; Diguengué, coll. JFT 2340; Fazao, coll. GHS-W 0623, 0844, 0843, 0845, 0848, 0841 and 0842; Kebo-Dzigbe (Monts Agou), ZMB 77937-77947 View Materials , RMCA A7.036 View Materials .R-0059-0065 ; Kéran (Parc national de la Kéran), coll. JFT 2305, 2307; Misa-Höhe, coll. JFT 1705, 1709, 1722; Oga, coll. GHS-W 1127.

Guinea. No precise locality, MNHN 1943.44-47.

Ivory Coast. No precise locality, MNHN 1967.234-239 and 1967.307-310.

HABITATS AND DISTRIBUTION. — This is a typical forest species, including forest clearings and dry forests as well as semi-deciduous forests in ecological zones I, II, III and IV. It is a diurnal species, that hides under the leaf litter. This species is abundant in the Agou and Togo mountains. The northernmost distribution area of this species is the Parc national de la Kéran and Oti-mandouri, but it occurs also in Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger according to Böhme et al. (1996) and Trape et al. (2012). Its presence in the North-western regions (forêt de Djamdè, forêt de Galangashi) has been confirmed during the present study. This species was first cited for Togo by Matschie (1891) from Bismarkburg (now Yégué); Hoogmoed (1974) and Leaché et al. (2006) also mentioned its presence in the forested regions of surrounding areas of Ghana.

NOTES

The taxonomic status of this species is yet not clear; indeed, the synonymies of Euprepis blandingii Hallowell, 1844 and Euprepis raddonii Gray, 1845 with Tiliqua affinis Gray, 1839 , which were proposed by Hoogmoed (1974), are still in doubt

according to Leaché et al. (2006). Further studies are needed to resolve this problem.

References

BOHME W., MEINIG H. & RODEL M. - O. 1996. - New records of amphibians and reptiles from Burkina Faso and Mali. British Herpetological Society Bulletin 55: 7 - 26.

GRAY J. E. 1838. - Catalogue of the slender-tongued saurians, with descriptions of many new genera and species. Annals of Natural History 2: 287 - 293.

GRAY J. E. 1845. - Catalogue of the Specimens of Lizards in the Collection of the British Museum. Trustees of die British Museum / Edward Newman, London: xxvii + 289 p.

HALLOWELL E. 1844. - Description of a new species of Chameleon from Western African. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 1841: 111 - 115

HOOGMOED M. S. 1974. - Ghanese lizards of the genus Mabuya (Scincidae, Sauria, Reptilia). Zoologische Verhandelingen, 138: 1 - 62 + 6 plates.

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.

MATSCHIE P. 1891. - Verzeichniss von Reptilien von Bismarkburg im Togolande. Zoologische Jahrbucher 5: 612 - 618.

TRAPE J. - F., TRAPE S. & CHIRIO L. 2012. - Lezards, crocodiles et tortues d'Afrique occidentale et du Sahara. IRD editions, Marseilles: 1 - 503.