Tarentola Gray, 1825

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 : 394

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Genus Tarentola Gray, 1825

Tarentola ephippiata O’Shaughnessy, 1875 ( Fig. 14 View FIG )

Tarentola ephippiata O’Shaughnessy, 1875: 263 .

MATERIAL EXAMINED. — 8 specimens: Togo. Mango , ZMB 16627 and 16306 ; coll. GHS-W 1892-1895; Sabiegou , MNHN 2006.2200 About MNHN . Ghana. Kété Kratchi, ZMB 16307 .

HABITATS AND DISTRIBUTION. — Tarentola ephippiata is a species occurring essentially in the Sudanese savannah zone. However, it can be found also in the hilly open and dry forests of ecological zone II. This species was first mentioned for Togo by Tornier (1901) for Mango and Yendi (nowadays in Ghana), and later by Loveridge (1947) and Bauer et al. (2006).

References

BAUER A. M., TCHIBOZO S., PAUWELS O. S. G. & LEN- GLET G. 2006. - A review of the gekkotan lizards of Benin, with the description of a new species of Hemidactylus (Squamata: Gekkonidae). Zootaxa 1242: 1 - 20.

LOVERIDGE A. 1947. - Revision of the African lizards of the family Gekkonidae. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 98: 1 - 469, pl. 1 - 7.

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