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Re: Lizard Identification

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Hi folks, I've a new challenge for you. lol Can anybody tell me which reptile this is? Seen at Namutoni, Etosha NP, Namibia. I guess it's a skink, maybe a juvenile Wahlberg's snake-eyed skink (Panaspis wahlbergii). What do you think?

Thanks in advance and many greetings from Germany.

PS: Of course I've checked the AW Reptile Book but haven't found this one.
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I think it lost its tail in a misfortune, Saint! lol 0/*

Let's see! 0()


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Re: Lizard Identification

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One of the striped skink complex: Trachylepis sp.

perhaps T. (striata) wahlbergii or T. spilogaster


http://biodiversityexplorer.info/reptil ... gaster.htm


These ones are found in Etosha:

Trachylepis acutilabris (Peters, 1862) WEDGE-SNOUTED SKINK SECURE
Trachylepis binotata (Bocage, 1867) GIANT TREE SKINK SECURE
Trachylepis capensis (Gray, 1831) CAPE SKINK SECURE
Trachylepis occidentalis (Peters, 1867) WESTERN THREE-LINED SKINK SECURE
Trachylepis chimbana (Boulenger, 1887) CHIMBANA SKINK RARE(?)
Trachylepis variegata (Peters, 1870) WESTERN VARIEGATED SKINK SECURE - SP (taxonomy)
Trachylepis punctulata (Bocage, 1872) EASTERN VARIEGATED SKINK SECURE –SP (taxonomy)
Trachylepis spilogaster (Peters, 1882) NAMIBIAN TREE SKINK ENDEMIC (∀90%) & SECURE
Trachylepis hoeschi (Mertens, 1954) WESTERN ROCK SKINK ENDEMIC (∀95%) & SECURE - SP (distribution)
Trachylepis wahlbergii (Peters, 1870) WAHLBERG’S STRIPED SKINK SECURE
Trachylepis sparsa (Mertens, 1954) NAMIBIAN STRIPED SKINK ENDEMIC (+-80%) & SECURE
Trachylepis punctatissima (A. Smith, 1849) CAPE STRIPED SKINK SECURE
Trachylepis sulcata (Peters, 1867) KOPPIE SKINK SECURE - SP (taxonomy of subspecies)
Trachylepis varia (Peters, 1867) COMMON VARIABLE SKINK SECURE –SP (taxonomy)
Trachylepis lacertiformis (Peters, 1854) BRONZE ROCK SKINK NOT YET RECORDED (Kaokoveld) (RARE?)
Trachylepis laevis Boulenger, 1907 KAOKOVELD FLAT ROCK SKINK SECURE


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Re: Lizard Identification

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Dindingwe wrote: Tue Jan 30, 2018 6:29 pm Hello,
could anyone please help me identify these Agamas, seen around Fish River Canyon and Keetmanshoop (Namibia). Are they Ground Agama or Rock Agama ?

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The second one is a Ground agama, relatively large earhole is distinctive
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Dindingwe wrote: Wed Jan 31, 2018 9:40 am Thank you Okie.
Both of them ? I would have thought they belong to 2 different species, they are so different...

And these ones, are they also Rock Agamas ?

1/ taken near Fish River Canyon

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2 and 3/ taken at KTP

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These ones are Ground agama (Agama aculeata)


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:shock:
^Q^ ^Q^ Klippies!


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Clever our Klippie ^Q^ ^Q^


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Thank you Klipspringer for answering these old posts :ty:
That was my very very first post after I registered here O\/


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These are lovely photos ^Q^


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Re: Lizard Identification

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Thank you Klipspringer. :ty:

I checked your list and I guess it's indeed a very young Kalahari Tree Skink (Trachylepis spilogaster).

If this guy from SA http://www.tyroneping.co.za/trachylepis ... ree-skink/ is right, we are right, too. lol

Greetings.

PS: I have some more pictures for you -O- - one more skink, an agame, a beetle, a turtle - but not today.


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