Trachylepis ozorii is a species of skink, a lizard in the family Scincidae. The species is endemic to the island of Annobón in Equatorial Guinea.[1]
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Order: | Squamata |
| Family: | Scincidae |
| Genus: | Trachylepis |
| Species: | T. ozorii
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| Trachylepis ozorii | |
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Taxonomy edit
The species T. ozorii was originally described and named Mabuia ozorii by José Vicente Barbosa du Bocage in 1893.[2]
Etymology edit
The specific name, ozorii, is in honor of Portuguese ichthyologist and naturalist Balthazar Osorio (1855–1926).[3]
References edit
- ^ a b c Trachylepis ozorii at the Reptarium.cz Reptile Database. Accessed 2018-03-01.
- ^ a b Barbosa du Bocage JV (1893). "Diagnoses de deux nouveaux reptiles de l'île de Anno-Bom" Jornal de Sciências, Mathemáticas, Physicas e Naturaes, Lisbõa, Segunda Série [Second Series] 3: 47-48. ("Mabuia Ozorii ", new species, p. 47). (in French).
- ^ 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. (Mabuya ozorii, p. 198).
Further reading edit
- Jesus, José; Harris, D. James; Brehm, António (2005). "Relationships of scincid lizards (Mabuya spp.) from the islands of the Gulf of Guinea based on mtDNA sequence data". Amphibia-Reptilia 26 (4): 467–473.
- Ceríaco, Luis M. P.; Marques, Mariana P.; Bauer, Aaron M. (2016). "A review of the genus Trachylepis (Sauria: Scincidae) from the Gulf of Guinea, with descriptions of two new species in the Trachylepis maculilabris (Gray, 1845) species complex". Zootaxa 4109 (3): 284–314.
External links edit
Data related to Trachylepis ozorii at Wikispecies
