Trachylepis skink genus in the subfamily Mabuyinae found mainly in Africa . Its members were formerly included in the "wastebin taxon " Mabuya Euprepis Trachylepis contains the clade of Afro-Malagasy mabuyas . The genus also contains a species from the Brazilian island of Fernando de Noronha , T. atlantica South America with Trachylepis tschudii Trachylepis maculata [1] T. atlantica are believed to have rafted across the Atlantic from Africa during the last 9 million years.[2]
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Trachylepis striata Kruger Park Trachylepis albilabris Gabon The generic name Trachylepis literally means "rough-scaled", referring to the fact that most of the species, though superficially smooth-scaled, have three or more slight longitudinal keels on their dorsal scales .[3]
The following species are recognized as being valid (listed alphabetically by specific name ).[4] [5]
Trachylepis acutilabris (W. Peters , 1862) – wedge-snouted skink, sharp-lipped mabuyaTrachylepis adamastor Ceríaco , 2015Trachylepis affinis (Gray , 1838) – Senegal mabuyaTrachylepis albilabris (Hallowell , 1857) – Guinea mabuyaTrachylepis albotaeniata (Boettger , 1913) – Pemba Island mabuyaTrachylepis atlantica (Schmidt , 1945) – Noronha skink Trachylepis aureogularis (Muller, 1885) – Guinea mabuya, orange-throated skinkTrachylepis aureopunctata (Grandidier , 1867) – gold-spotted mabuyaTrachylepis bayonii (Bocage , 1872) – Bayão’s skink, Bayon's skink, Bayon's mabuyaTrachylepis bensonii (W. Peters, 1867) – Benson's mabuyaTrachylepis betsileana (Mocquard , 1906) – Betsileo mabuyaTrachylepis binotata (Bocage, 1867) – Ovambo tree skink, Bocage's mabuyaTrachylepis bocagii (Boulenger , 1887) – Bocage's skinkTrachylepis boehmei Koppetsch, 2020 – Böhme's grass skinkTrachylepis boettgeri (Boulenger, 1887) – Boettger's mabuyaTrachylepis boulengeri (Sternfeld , 1911) – Boulenger's mabuyaTrachylepis brauni (Tornier , 1902) – Braun's mabuyaTrachylepis brevicollis (Wiegmann , 1837) – short-necked skink, Sudan mabuyaTrachylepis buettneri (Matschie , 1893) Trachylepis capensis (Gray, 1831) – Cape skink, Cape three-lined skinkTrachylepis casuarinae (Broadley , 1974) – Casuarina Island skinkTrachylepis chimbana (Boulenger, 1887) – Chimba skink, Chimban mabuyaTrachylepis comorensis (W. Peters, 1854) – Comoro Island skinkTrachylepis cristinae Sindaco et al., 2012Trachylepis damarana (W. Peters, 1870) – Damara skinkTrachylepis depressa (W. Peters, 1854) – eastern sand skinkTrachylepis dichroma R. Günther , Whiting & Bauer , 2005Trachylepis dumasi (Nussbaum & Raxworthy , 1995) Trachylepis elegans W. Peters, 1854 – elegant mabuyaTrachylepis ferrarai (Lanza , 1978) – Ferrara's mabuyaTrachylepis gonwouoi Allen et al., 2017Trachylepis gravenhorstii (A.M.C. Duméril & Bibron , 1839) – Gravenhorst's mabuya[6] Trachylepis hemmingi (Gans , Laurent & Pandit , 1965) – Somali mabuyaTrachylepis hildebrandtii (W. Peters, 1874) – Hildebrandt’s skinkTrachylepis hoeschi (Mertens , 1954) – Hoesch's mabuyaTrachylepis homalocephala (Wiegmann, 1828) – red-sided skinkTrachylepis infralineata (Boettger, 1913) Trachylepis irregularis (Lönnberg , 1922) – alpine meadow mabuyaTrachylepis keroanensis (Chabanaud , 1921) – Teita mabuyaTrachylepis lacertiformis (W. Peters, 1854) – bronze rock skinkTrachylepis laevigata (Peters, 1869) – variable skink, striped-neck variable skinkTrachylepis laevis (Boulenger, 1907) – Angolan blue-tailed skinkTrachylepis langheldi (Sternfeld , 1917) – Langheld's skinkTrachylepis lavarambo (Nussbaum & Raxworthy, 1998) Trachylepis loluiensis Kingdon & Spawls, 2010 – Loloui Island skinkTrachylepis maculata (Gray, 1839) – spotted mabuyaTrachylepis maculilabris (Gray, 1845) – speckle-lipped skink, speckle-lipped mabuyaTrachylepis madagascariensis (Mocquard, 1908) – Malagasy mabuyaTrachylepis makolowodei Chirio et al., 2008Trachylepis margaritifera (W. Peters, 1854) – rainbow skinkTrachylepis megalura (W. Peters, 1878) – grass-top skink, long-tailed skinkTrachylepis mekuana (Chirio & Ineich , 2000) Trachylepis mlanjensis (Loveridge , 1953) – Mulanje skinkTrachylepis monardi (Monard, 1937) – Monard’s skinkTrachylepis nancycoutuae (Nussbaum & Raxworthy, 1998) Trachylepis nganghae Ineich & Chirio, 2004 Trachylepis occidentalis (W. Peters, 1867) – western three-striped skinkTrachylepis ozorii (Bocage, 1893) Trachylepis paucisquamis (Hoogmoed, 1978) – tropical mabuyaTrachylepis pendeana (Ineich & Chirio, 2000) Trachylepis perrotetii (A.M.C. Duméril & Bibron, 1839) – Teita mabuya, African red-sided skinkTrachylepis planifrons (W. Peters, 1878) – tree skinkTrachylepis polytropis (Boulenger, 1903) – tropical mabuyaTrachylepis pulcherrima (de Witte , 1953) – beautiful skinkTrachylepis punctatissima (A. Smith , 1849) – montane speckled skink, speckled rock skinkTrachylepis punctulata (Bocage, 1872) – speckled sand skink, speckled skinkTrachylepis quinquetaeniata (Lichtenstein , 1823) – African five-lined skink, rainbow mabuyaTrachylepis raymondlaurenti Marques, Ceríaco, Bandeira , Pauwels & Bauer, 2019 – Laurent's long-tailed skinkTrachylepis rodenburgi (Hoogmoed , 1974) – Rodenburg's mabuyaTrachylepis sechellensis (A.M.C. Duméril & Bibron, 1839) – Seychelles mabuyaTrachylepis socotrana (W. Peters, 1882) – Socotra skinkTrachylepis sparsa (Mertens, 1954) – Karasburg tree skinkTrachylepis spilogaster (W. Peters, 1882) – Kalahari tree skink, spiny mabuyaTrachylepis striata (W. Peters, 1844) – African striped mabuya, striped skinkTrachylepis sulcata (W. Peters, 1867) – western rock skinkTrachylepis tandrefana (Nussbaum, Raxworthy & Ramanamanjato , 1999) Trachylepis tavaratra (Ramanamanjato, Nussbaum & Raxworthy, 1999) Trachylepis tessellata (Anderson , 1895) – tessellated mabuyaTrachylepis thomensis Ceríaco, Marques & Bauer, 2016 Trachylepis varia (W. Peters, 1867) – variable skinkTrachylepis variegata (W. Peters, 1870) – variegated skinkTrachylepis vato (Nussbaum & Raxworthy, 1994) – boulder mabuyaTrachylepis vezo (Ramanamanjato, Nussbaum & Raxworthy, 1999) Trachylepis volamenaloha (Nussbaum, Raxworthy & Ramanamanjato, 1999) Trachylepis wahlbergii (Peters, 1870) – Wahlberg's striped skinkTrachylepis wingati (F. Werner , 1908) – Wingate’s skinkTrachylepis wrightii (Boulenger, 1887) –Wright's skink, Wright's mabuyaNota bene binomial authority in parentheses indicates that the species was originally described in a genus other than Trachylepis .
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Fitzinger L (1843). Systema Reptilium, Fasciculus Primus, Amblyglossae . Vienna: Braumüller & Seidel. 106 pp. + indices. (Trachylepis , new genus, p. 22). (in Latin ). 
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