Trachylepis brauni

Braun's mabuya (Trachylepis brauni) is a species of skink, a lizard in the family Scincidae. The species is endemic to Tanzania.

Trachylepis brauni
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Squamata
Family: Scincidae
Genus: Trachylepis
Species:
T. brauni
Binomial name
Trachylepis brauni
(Tornier, 1902)
Synonyms[1]
  • Mabuia brauni
    Tornier, 1902
  • Mabuya varia brauni
    — Loveridge, 1957
  • Mabuya brauni
    — Meerman, 1984
  • Euprepis brauni
    — Mausfeld et al., 2002
  • Trachylepis brauni
    — Bauer, 2003

Etymology

The specific name, brauni, is in honor of German zoologist Rudolf H. Braun (born 1908).[2]

Geographic range

T. brauni is found in southwestern Tanzania.[1]

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References
  1. Trachylepis brauni at the Reptarium.cz Reptile Database. Accessed 16 September 2015.
  2. 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 brauni, p. 37).

Further reading
  • Tornier G (1902). "Herpetologisch Neues aus Deutsch-Ost-Afrika ". Zoologische Jahrbücher. Abtheilung für Systematik, Geographie und Biologie der Thiere 15: 578–590. (Mabuia brauni, new species, pp. 585–586). (in German).
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