Trachylepis hemmingi
The Somali mabuya (Trachylepis hemmingi) is a species of skink, a lizard in the family Scincidae. The species is endemic to Somalia.[1]
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Order: | Squamata |
| Family: | Scincidae |
| Genus: | Trachylepis |
| Species: | T. hemmingi |
| Binomial name | |
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Etymology
The specific name, hemmingi, is in honor of English entomologist Christopher Francis Hemming, who collected the holotype.[2]
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References
- Trachylepis hemmingi at the Reptarium.cz Reptile Database. Accessed 22 March 2015.
- 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 hemmingi, p. 120).
Further reading
- Bauer AM (2003). "On the identity of Lacerta punctata Linnaeus 1758, the type species of the genus Euprepis Wagler 1830, and the generic assignment of Afro-Malagasy skinks". African Journal of Herpetology 52 (1): 1–7. (Trachylepis hemmingi, new combination).
- Gans C, Laurent R, Pandit H (1965). "Notes on a herpetological collection from the Somali Republic". Annales du Musée Royal de l'Afrique Centrale, Série in Octavo, Science Zoologique, Tervuren 134: 1–93. (Mabuya hemmingi, new species, p. 33).
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