Usambara Five-toed Skink articles - Encyclopedia of Life

Distribution

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Continent: Africa
Distribution: Tanzania (Usambara Mountains)
Type locality: Kwai, W Usambara Mountains, Tanzania, 1600 m elevation.

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Proscelotes eggeli, also known commonly as the Usambara five-toed skink, is a species of lizard in the family Scincidae. The species is endemic to Tanzania.^[2]

The specific name, eggeli, is in honor of a German army physician, "Dr. Eggel", who collected reptiles in Africa for Tornier.^[3]

The preferred natural habitat of P. eggeli is forest.^[1]

P. eggeli has been reported to be oviparous^[1] and ovoviviparous.^[2]

^ ^a ^b ^c Howell K, Beraduccii [sic] J, Ngalason W (2021). "Proscelotes eggeli ". The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2021: https://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2021-3.RLTS.T44978970A44978979.en. Accessed on 02 November 2022.
^ ^a ^b ^c Proscelotes eggeli at the Reptarium.cz Reptile Database. Accessed 02 November 2022.
^ 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. (Proscelotes eggeli, p. 81).

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Proscelotes eggeli, also known commonly as the Usambara five-toed skink, is a species of lizard in the family Scincidae. The species is endemic to Tanzania.