Trachylepis farooqii

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Scincoidea
Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Kingdom: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: ParaHoxozoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Superphylum: Deuterostomia Phylum: Chordata Cladus: Olfactores Subphylum: Vertebrata Infraphylum: Gnathostomata Megaclassis: Osteichthyes Cladus: Sarcopterygii Cladus: Rhipidistia Cladus: Tetrapodomorpha Cladus: Eotetrapodiformes Cladus: Elpistostegalia Superclassis: Tetrapoda Cladus: Reptiliomorpha Cladus: Amniota Cladus: Sauropsida Classis: Reptilia Cladus: Eureptilia Cladus: Romeriida Cladus: Diapsida Cladus: Neodiapsida Cladus: Sauria Cladus: Lepidosauromorpha Subclassis: Lepidosauria Ordo: Squamata Subordo: Scincomorpha Superfamilia: Scincoidea

Familia: Scincidae
Subfamilia: Mabuyinae
Genus: Trachylepis
Species:

Trachylepis farooqii Barbosa, Parrinha, Marques, Harun, Recoder, Sena, Bila, Ineich, Fernandes, Passos, Rodrigues & Ceríaco, 2025

Holotype: MZUSP L108148, adult ♂, collected by Miguel Trefaut Rodrigues, Renato Sousa Recoder, Marco Aurélio de Sena, Agustin Camacho, Mohamed Harun, Samuel Bila, Francisco Dal Vechio and Mauro Teixeira Junior on 27 October 2015.
Type locality: “Naburi [16.78857S, 38.88581E], Mozambique”.

Barbosa, M.R., Parrinha, D., Marques, M.P., Harun, M., Recoder, R.S., Sena, M.A., Bila, S., Ineich, I., Fernandes, D.S., Passos, P., Rodrigues, M.T. & Ceríaco, L.M.P. 2025. A long-known new species of the Trachylepis maculilabris species complex (Squamata: Scincidae) from South-Eastern Africa. Annals of the Carnegie Museum 91(1): 1–27. Reference page.