Trachylepis striata (Peters, 1844)

Conradie, Werner, Bittencourt-Silva, Gabriela B., Engelbrecht, Hanlie M., Loader, Simon P., Menegon, Michele, Nanvonamuquitxo, Cristovao, Scott, Michael & Tolley, Krystal A., 2016, Exploration into the hidden world of Mozambique's sky island forests: new discoveries of reptiles and amphibians, Zoosystematics and Evolution 92 (2), pp. 163-180 : 172

Trachylepis striata (Peters, 1844)

Material

Mt. Namuli ( PEM R21172 , male, 71.1 mm SVL; PEM R21173 , male, 67.7 mm SVL) .

Comments

Specimen was collected from the lower slopes of Mt. Namuli running on granite rocky outcrops. Common and widespread species in southern Africa, but only recorded from Niassa (Branch et al. 2005), Namuli and Lichinga ( Portik et al. 2013a), Mossuril and Mozambique Island ( Blake 1965) in northern Mozambique.