Trachylepis ozorii explained

Trachylepis ozorii is a species of skink, a lizard in the family Scincidae. The species is endemic to the island of Annobón in Equatorial Guinea.

Taxonomy

The species T. ozorii was originally described and named Mabuia ozorii by José Vicente Barbosa du Bocage in 1893.^[1]

Etymology

The specific name, ozorii, is in honor of Portuguese ichthyologist and naturalist Balthazar Osorio (1855–1926).^[2]

Further reading

• Jesus, José; Harris, D. James; Brehm, António (2005). "Relationships of scincid lizards (Mabuya spp.) from the islands of the Gulf of Guinea based on mtDNA sequence data". Amphibia-Reptilia 26 (4): 467–473.
• Ceríaco, Luis M. P.; Marques, Mariana P.; Bauer, Aaron M. (2016). "A review of the genus Trachylepis (Sauria: Scincidae) from the Gulf of Guinea, with descriptions of two new species in the Trachylepis maculilabris (Gray, 1845) species complex". Zootaxa 4109 (3): 284–314.

Notes and References

1. [José Vicente Barbosa du Bocage|Barbosa du Bocage JV]
2. Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011) The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. . (Mabuya ozorii, p. 198).