Trachylepis hemmingi

Trachylepis hemmingi
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Reptilia
Order:	Squamata
Family:	Scincidae
Genus:	Trachylepis
Species:	T. hemmingi
Binomial name
	Trachylepis hemmingi; (Gans, Laurent, & , 1965)
Synonyms
	Mabuya hemmingi ; Gans, Laurent & Pandit, 1965; Euprepis hemmingi ; — et al., 2002; Trachylepis hemmingi ; — Bauer, 2003;

Trachylepis hemmingi, also known commonly as the Somali mabuya, is a species of skink, a lizard in the family Scincidae. The species is endemic to Somalia.^[1]

Etymology[]

The specific name, hemmingi, is in honor of English entomologist , who collected the holotype.^[2]

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

^ ^a ^b ^c Trachylepis hemmingi at the Reptarium.cz Reptile Database. Accessed 5 November 2020.
^ 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 hemmingi, p. 120).

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 hemmingi, new combination).
Gans C, Laurent R, (1965). "Notes on a herpetological collection from the Somali Republic". Annales du Musée Royal de l'Afrique Centrale, Série in Octavo, Science Zoologique, Tervuren 134: 1–93. (Mabuya hemmingi, new species, p. 33).
Lanza B (1990). "Amphibians and reptiles of the Somali Democratic Republic: check list and biogeography". Biogeographia 14: 407–465.

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