Trachylepis buettneri is a species of skink, a lizard in the family Scincidae. The species is native to Central Africa and West Africa.
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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. buettneri
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| Binomial name | |
| Trachylepis buettneri (Matschie, 1893)
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Etymology
editThe specific name, buettneri, is in honor of German botanist Oskar Alexander Richard Büttner.[3]
Geographic range
editT. buettneri is found in Cameroon, Central African Republic, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ghana, Ivory Coast, and Togo.[2]
Habitat
editThe preferred natural habitat of T. buettneri is savanna.[1]
Description
editT. buettneri has a very long tail. The tail length may be four times the snout-to-vent length (SVL).[2]
Reproduction
editReferences
edit- ^ a b Rödel M-O, Segniagbeto G, Trape J-F (2021). "Trachylepis buettneri ". The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2021: https://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2021-1.RLTS.T13155273A13155280.en. Accessed on 20 December 2021.
- ^ a b c Trachylepis buettneri 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 buettneri, p. 45).
- ^ Barbault R (1976). "Population Dynamics and Reproductive Patterns of Three African Skinks". Copeia 1976 (3): 483–490. (Mabuya buettneri).
Further reading
edit- Matschie P (1893). "Einige anscheinend neue Reptilien und Amphibien aus West-Afrika". Sitzungs-berichte der Gesellschaft Naturforschender Freunde zu Berlin 1893: 170–175. (Mabuya büttneri, new species, pp. 170–171). (in German).
- Segniagbeto, Gabriel Hoinsoude; Trape, Jean-François; Afiademanyo, Komlan M.; Rödel, Mark-Oliver; Ohler, Annemarie; Dubois, Alain; David, Patrick; Meirte, Danny; Glitho, Isabelle Adolé; Petrozzi, Fabio; Luiselli, Luca (2015). "Checklist of the lizards of Togo (West Africa), with comments on systematics, distribution, ecology, and conservation". Zoosystema 37 (2): 381–402.
- Trape J-F, Trape S, Chirio L (2012). Lézards, crocodiles et tortues d'Afrique occidentale et du Sahara. Paris: IRD Orstom. 503 pp. ISBN 978-2709917261. (in French).
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