Trachylepis buettneri

Trachylepis buettneri
Conservation status
	; Least Concern (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Reptilia
Order:	Squamata
Family:	Scincidae
Genus:	Trachylepis
Species:	T. buettneri
Binomial name
	Trachylepis buettneri; (Matschie, 1893)
Synonyms[2]
	Mabuya büttneri ; Matschie, 1893; Mabuya viancini ; Mocquard, 1895; Mabuya sudanensis ; Schmidt, 1919; Mabuya buettneri ; — Hoogmoed, 1974; Euprepis buettneri ; — Mausfeld et al., 2002; Trachylepis buettneri ; — Bauer, 2003;

Trachylepis buettneri is a species of skink, a lizard in the family Scincidae. The species is native to Central Africa and West Africa.

Etymology

The specific name, buettneri, is in honor of German botanist Oskar Alexander Richard Büttner.[3]

The preferred natural habitat of T. buettneri is savanna.[1]

T. buettneri has a very long tail. The tail length may be four times the snout-to-vent length (SVL).[2]

T. buettneri is oviparous.[4]

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.
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).

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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