. Bonner zoologische Beiträge : Herausgeber: Zoologisches Forschungsinstitut und Museum Alexander Koenig, Bonn. Biology; Zoology. Bonner zoologische Beiträge 55 (2006) 85 Key to the African species of Trapeliis: 1 - Ventrals keeled; nuptial colouration of males blue, spotted white, tail reddish; females grey with dark crossbars. T. savignii - Ventrals smooth. 2 2 - Hindleg scalation heterogeneous; flat nasal scale, nos- tril on canthus rostralis, occiput with few spines, no guiar pouch, dorsal scales smooth or indistinctly keeled, hindleg scalation heterogeneous, 3rd fmger shorter than 4&quo


. Bonner zoologische Beiträge : Herausgeber: Zoologisches Forschungsinstitut und Museum Alexander Koenig, Bonn. Biology; Zoology. Bonner zoologische Beiträge 55 (2006) 85 Key to the African species of Trapeliis: 1 - Ventrals keeled; nuptial colouration of males blue, spotted white, tail reddish; females grey with dark crossbars. T. savignii - Ventrals smooth. 2 2 - Hindleg scalation heterogeneous; flat nasal scale, nos- tril on canthus rostralis, occiput with few spines, no guiar pouch, dorsal scales smooth or indistinctly keeled, hindleg scalation heterogeneous, 3rd fmger shorter than 4"^. T. pallidiis - Hindleg scalation homogenous. 3 3 - Dorsal scalation heterogeneous; 3''^ fmger longer than 4*. Swollen nasal scale, nostril dorsal posi- tioned, occiput without spines, ventrals smooth or feebly keeled, dorsal scales heterogeneous inter- mixed with larger scales, hindleg scalation homog- enous, small guiar pouch in males. T. mutabilis complex â Dorsal scalation sub-homogenous; 3'''^ fmger short- er than 4'l\ 4 - Dorsal head scales smooth, four spinose scales on the upper border of the ear-opening dorsal scales equal, smooth to feebly keeled and mucronatc, with some intermixed enlarged scales, small guiar pouch, dark coloured throat, belly whitish, tail short, little longer as snout-vent-length, two rows of prcanal scales in males. T. sclvnitzi sp. n. Upper head scales smooth, not enlarged on occiput, no spinose scales on head, veiy slight fringe of point- ed scales on the upper border of the ear-opening, dorsal scales equal, granular, strongly keeled and not mucronate, one row of preanal scales in males, large guiar pouch, belly whitish with dark longitudinal stripes, tail long, two and a half as long as the dis- tance from guiar fold to vent, covered with equal keeled scales. T. tournevillei. Fig. 4. Habitat of T. sclvnitzi sp. n. around Gueita Archei, Ennedi Mts., at the time of the Kollmannsberger Please note that these images are extrac


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