Trachylepis hemmingi, also known commonly as the Somali mabuya, is a species of skink, a lizard in the subfamily Mabuyinae of the family Scincidae. The species is endemic to Somalia.
Etymology The specific name, hemmingi, is in honor of English entomologist Christopher Francis Hemming, who collected the holotype.Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. . (Trachylepis hemmingi, p. 120).
Reproduction The mode of reproduction of T. hemmingi is unknown.
References
Further reading Bauer AM (2003). "On the identity of Lacerta punctata Linnaeus 1758, the type species of the genus Euprepis Wagler 1830, and the generic assignment of Afro-Malagasy skinks". African Journal of Herpetology 52 (1): 1–7. (Trachylepis hemmingi, new combination). Lanza B (1990). "Amphibians and reptiles of the Somali Democratic Republic: check list and biogeography". Biogeographia 14: 407–465.