Trachylepis polytropis ( Boulenger, 1903 )

Sánchez-Vialas, Alberto, Calvo-Revuelta, Marta & Riva, Ignacio De La, 2022, Synopsis of the terrestrial Reptiles of Equatorial Guinea, Zootaxa 5202 (1), pp. 1-197 : 57

Trachylepis polytropis ( Boulenger, 1903)

Mabuia polytropis Boulenger, 1903: 433 . Type locality: “Benito River district, Gaboon”, Río Benito district , Río Muni, Equatorial Guinea.

Mabuya polytropis ( Boulenger, 1903) : Schmidt 1919: 531.

Euprepis polytropis ( Boulenger, 1903) : Mausfeld-Lafdhiya et al. 2002 (by implication).

Trachylepis polytropis ( Boulenger, 1903) : Bauer 2003 (by implication).

Distribution. This species ranges across West and Central Africa, from Liberia to the Democratic Republic of the Congo. In Equatorial Guinea it has been recorded from Bioko ( Hoogmoed 1974) at Punta Frailes ( Boulenger 1906), between San Carlos and Batete ( Mertens 1964a), and at a beach (likely in Aleñá) across from the Island of Loros ( Mertens 1964a), and from Río Muni at Benito River ( Boulenger, 1903), and Monte Alén National Park ( Lasso et al. 2002) including Monte Mitra forest ( Gonwouo & Nsang 2005) ( Map 14C ).

Comments. This species is related to T. maculilabris ( Allen et al. 2017, 2019).

Specimens examined. No specimens of this taxon were found in the examined collections.

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MAPS 14 A–C. Distribution maps for Equatorial Guinean records of (A) Trachylepis maculilabris; (B) Trachylepis ozorii; (C) Trachylepis polytropis.