Trachylepis maculata

Trachylepis maculata
Head of a lizard, seen from above and from the left. A single pentangular scale with three clear ridges is figured to the left. The text "Zoologie 3e partie, Pl. 22 C." is above the images.
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Squamata
Family: Scincidae
Genus: Trachylepis
Species:
T. maculata
Binomial name
Trachylepis maculata
(Gray, 1839)
Synonyms
  • Tiliqua maculata Gray, 1839
  • Mabuya maculata: Anderson, 1900
  • Trachylepis maculata: Miralles et al., 2009

Trachylepis maculata, the spotted mabuya, is a species of skink in the genus Trachylepis recorded from Demerara in Guyana, northern South America. It is placed in the genus Trachylepis, which is otherwise mostly restricted to Africa, and its type locality may be in error.[1] It is an unstriped, olive-brown, grayish animal, with dark spots all over the body.[2] Its taxonomic history is complex due to confusion with Trachylepis atlantica from the Atlantic Ocean island of Fernando de Noronha and doubts regarding its type locality.

  1. ^ Cite error: The named reference Mea62 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  2. ^ Mausfeld and Vrcibradic, 2002, p. 293