Trachylepis bayonii

Bayão’s skink, Bayon's mabuya, or Bayon’s skink (Trachylepis bayonii) is a species of skink, a lizard in the family Scincidae. The species is endemic to Africa.

Trachylepis bayonii
Conservation status
Data Deficient  (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Reptilia
Order:	Squamata
Family:	Scincidae
Genus:	Trachylepis
Species:	T. bayonii
Binomial name
Trachylepis bayonii (Bocage, 1872)
Synonyms[2]
Euprepes bayonii Bocage, 1872 Mabuia bayonii — Boulenger, 1887 Mabuya bayonii — Greer et al., 2000 Trachylepis bayonii — Bauer, 2003

Etymology

The specific name, bayonii, is in honor of Francisco Antonio Pinheiro Bayão, who was a Portuguese planter in Angola.[3]

Geographic range

T. bayonii is found in Angola, Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda.[2]

Subspecies

Two subspecies are recognized as being valid, including the nominotypical subspecies.[2]

• Trachylepis bayonii bayonii (Bocage, 1872)
• Trachylepis bayonii keniensis (Loveridge, 1956)

Nota bene: A trinomial authority in parentheses indicates that the subspecies was originally described in a genus other than Trachylepis.

References

1. Menegon, M. & Spawls, S. 2011. Trachylepis bayonii. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2011: e.T178606A7579955. https://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2011-1.RLTS.T178606A7579955.en. Downloaded on 20 April 2020.
2. Trachylepis bayonii at the Reptarium.cz Reptile Database. Accessed 16 September 2015.
3. Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. ISBN 978-1-4214-0135-5. (Trachylepis bayonii, p. 20).

Further reading

• Bocage JV (1872). "Diagnoses de quelques espèces nouvelles de Reptiles d'Afrique occidentale ". Jornal de Sciencias Mathematicas, Physicas e Naturaes, Academia Real de Sciencias de Lisboa 4: 72–82. (Euprepes bayonii, new species, p. 75). (in French).
• Boulenger GA (1887). Catalogue of the Lizards in the British Museum (Natural History). Second Edition. Volume III. ... Scincidæ ... London: Trustees of the British Museum (Natural History). (Taylor and Francis, printers). xii + 575 pp. + Plates I-XL. (Mabuia bayonii, new combination, p. 201).
• Laurent RF (1964). "Reptiles et batraciens de l'Angola (troisième note) ". Companhia de Diamantes de Angola (Diamang), Serviços Culturais, Museu do Dundo (Angola) (67): 165. (Mabuya bayonii huilensis, new subspecies). (in French).