Trachylepis ozorii is a species of skink, a lizard in the subfamily Lygosominae of the family Scincidae. The species is endemic to the island of Annobón in Equatorial Guinea.
Taxonomy The species Trachylepis ozorii was originally described and named Mabuia ozorii by José Vicente Barbosa du Bocage in 1893.Barbosa du Bocage JV (1893). "Diagnoses de deux nouveaux reptiles de l'île de Anno-Bom" Jornal de Sciências, Mathemáticas, Physicas e Naturaes, Lisbõa, Segunda Série [Second Series] 3: 47-48. ("Mabuia Ozorii ", new species, p. 47). (in French).
Etymology The specific name, ozorii, is in honor of Portuguese ichthyologist and naturalist Balthazar Osorio (1855–1926).Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011) The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. . (Mabuya ozorii, p. 198).
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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.
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