Trachylepis wingati

Trachylepis wingati, also known commonly as Wingate's skink, is a species of lizard in the family Scincidae. The species is indigenous to northeastern Africa.

Trachylepis wingati
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Reptilia
Order:	Squamata
Family:	Scincidae
Genus:	Trachylepis
Species:	T. wingati
Binomial name
Trachylepis wingati (F. Werner, 1908)
Synonyms[1]
Mabuia wingatii F. Werner, 1908 Euprepis wingati — Mausfeld & Schmitz, 2003 Trachylepis wingati — Bauer, 2003 Mabuya wingatii — Largen & Spawls, 2010 Trachylepis (Mabuya) wingatii — Kirschey, 2016

Etymology

The specific name, wingati, is in honor of Francis Reginald Wingate, who was a General in the British Army and the first British Governor of Sudan.^[2]

Geographic range

T. wingati is found in Ethiopia and Sudan.^[1]

Description

T. wingati may attain a snout-to-vent length (SVL) of 10 cm (3.9 in). The tail is slightly longer than the SVL.^[3]

Reproduction

The mode of reproduction of T. wingati is unknown.^[1]

References

1. Trachylepis wingati at the Reptarium.cz Reptile Database. Accessed 22 March 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 wingati, p. 288).
3. Werner F (1908).

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 wingati, new combination).
• Werner F (1908). "Ergebnisse der mit Subvention aus der Erbschaft Treitl unternommenen zoologischen Forschungsreise Dr. Franz Werner's nach dem ägyptischen Sudan und Nord-Uganda. XII. Die Reptilien und Amphibien ". Sitzungsberichte der Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftlichen Klasse der Kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften 116: 1823–1926 + Plates I–IV. (Mabuia wingatii, new species, pp. 1848–1850 + Plate II, figures 3, 3a). (in German).