A new species of Trachylepis (Squamata: Scincidae) from the Amhara Region Ethiopia, and a key to the Ethiopian Trachylepis Author Koppetsch, Thore text Zootaxa 2020 2020-10-05 4859 1 113 126 journal article 8276 10.11646/zootaxa.4859.1.4 6303d7d7-7af1-492e-a328-5ed621fa16f9 1175-5326 4412836 AF2E6FB9-A7E7-4343-B537-EBD8AA0B2306

TABLE 2. Mensural and meristic comparisons between Trachylepis boehmei sp. nov., T. irregularis, T. megalura (material examined + taken from from Marques et al. (2019)) and T. varia. Linear measurements (in mm) and scale counts are given as mean values (Mean) ± standard deviation (SD) and sample size (N), minimum (Min) and maximum (Max) are shown. Absence (–) of characters is indicated. See Materials and Methods for explanation of the single character abbreviations.

Species	Trachylepis boehmei sp. nov.			Trachylepis irregularis			Trachylepis megalura			Trachylepis megalura			Trachylepis varia
Locality	Ankober, Ethiopia			Aberdare, Mt. Elgon, Mt. Kenya, Kenya + Uganda			Kafa, Ethiopia + Kakamega, Kenya			from Marques et al. (2019)			Illubabor/Shoa, Ethiopia + Mt. Hanang, Tanzania
N		12			14			9		49				4
	Mean ± SD	Min	Max	Mean ± SD	Min	Max	Mean ± SD	Min	Max	Mean ± SD	Min	Max	Mean ± SD	Min	Max
SVL	46.8 ± 7.0	33.4	55.3	59.7 ± 5.9	52.8	68.8	62.3 ± 8.5	50.2	74.5	55.4 ± 17.0	22.0	83.5	50.4 ± 11.2	38.5	65.4
TL	58.6 ± 8.6	48.6	69.5	72.2 ± 16.1	48.4	82.5	107.1 ± 16.3	86.3	126.1	161.4 ± 44.2	214	341	60.5 ± 5.0	54.9	64.5
TL/SVL	1.3 ± 0.2	1.2	1.7	1.2 ± 0.3	0.8	1.6	1.8 ± 0.4	1.3	2.2	2.5	0.7	3.7	1.2 ± 0.3	1.0	1.6
HL	10.3 ± 0.8	9.1	11.5	12.6 ± 0.8	11.5	13.7	12.0 ± 0.9	10.5	13.2	9.6 ± 1.8	5.9	11.8	12.0 ± 2.1	9.6	14.4
HH	4.9 ± 0.5	3.7	5.7	5.9 ± 0.6	5.0	7.2	5.8 ± 0.5	5.3	6.7	4.9 ± 1.0	2.8	6.3	4.4 ± 0.7	3.5	5.2
HH/HL	0.5 ± 0.0	0.4	0.5	0.5 ± 0.0	0.4	0.5	0.5 ± 0.0	0.4	0.5	–	–	–	0.4 ± 0.0	0.4	0.4
HW	6.1 ± 0.5	5.0	6.6	7.7 ± 0.7	6.6	8.9	7.3 ± 0.7	6.5	8.6	6.5 ± 1.3	3.7	8.1	6.7 ± 1.4	5.0	8.2
HW/HL	0.6 ± 0.0	0.5	0.6	0.6 ± 0.0	0.5	0.7	0.6 ± 0.1	0.5	0.7	0.68	0.53	0.75	0.6 ± 0.0	0.5	0.6
END	1.6 ± 0.2	1.1	1.9	2.3 ± 0.4	1.6	2.7	2.7 ± 0.3	2.3	3.2	2.9 ± 0.6	1.7	4.0	3.0 ± 0.4	2.6	3.4
ESD	2.6 ± 0.2	2.4	3.0	4.5 ± 0.3	4.2	4.9	4.2 ± 0.4	3.5	4.7	4.3 ± 0.9	2.5	5.2	4.7 ± 0.7	3.6	5.1
ESD/HL	0.3 ± 0.0	0.2	0.3	0.4 ± 0.0	0.3	0.4	0.4 ± 0.0	0.3	0.4	0.45	0.35	0.52	0.4 ± 0.0	0.4	0.4
EED	3.3 ± 0.4	2.6	3.9	4.0 ± 0.3	3.6	4.4	3.6 ± 0.6	2.5	4.3	–	–	–	3.6 ± 0.8	2.6	4.5
IND	1.6 ± 0.3	1.2	2.3	1.9 ± 0.2	1.4	2.2	2.0 ± 0.3	1.5	2.4	1.8 ± 0.3	1.1	2.3	1.7 ± 0.1	1.5	1.8
AGD	27.8 ± 4.0	21.1	33.7	33.6 ± 5.7	26.3	42.8	34.9 ± 6.2	25.2	43.9	–	–	–	25.3 ± 4.3	20.9	31.2
MSR	26.9 ± 1.1	26	29	30.6 ± 0.5	30	31	25.7 ± 0.7	24	26	–	24	26	32.5 ± 0.6	32	33
PSR	55.1 ± 1.7	53	58	53.9 ± 2.2	51	58	54.1 ± 2.1	51	57	–	48	64	51.5 ± 2.5	49.0	55.0
LF4	11.0 ± 1.0	10	13	13.4 ± 0.9	12	15	11.0 ± 0.7	10	12	–	10	14	15.5 ± 2.1	13.0	18.0
LT4	14.4 ± 1.1	13	16	18.3 ± 1.7	16	20	15.0 ± 0.9	14	16	–	15	18	19.3 ± 1.0	18.0	20.0