Trachylepis Adamastor
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The Adamastor skink (''Trachylepis adamastor'') is a
species A species () is often defined as the largest group of organisms in which any two individuals of the appropriate sexes or mating types can produce fertile offspring, typically by sexual reproduction. It is the basic unit of Taxonomy (biology), ...
of
skink Skinks are a type of lizard belonging to the family (biology), family Scincidae, a family in the Taxonomic rank, infraorder Scincomorpha. With more than 1,500 described species across 100 different taxonomic genera, the family Scincidae is one o ...
in the
family Family (from ) is a Social group, group of people related either by consanguinity (by recognized birth) or Affinity (law), affinity (by marriage or other relationship). It forms the basis for social order. Ideally, families offer predictabili ...
Scincidae. The species is
endemic Endemism is the state of a species being found only in a single defined geographic location, such as an island, state, nation, country or other defined zone; organisms that are indigenous to a place are not endemic to it if they are also foun ...
to the some 20-hectre islet of
Tinhosa Grande Tinhosa Grande is an uninhabited islet in São Tomé and Príncipe, located southwest of the island of Príncipe and northeast of the island of São Tomé Island, São Tomé in the Atlantic Ocean. Together with the smaller islet Tinhosa Pequena ...
southwest of
Príncipe Príncipe (; ) is the smaller, northern major island of the country of São Tomé and Príncipe lying off the west coast of Africa in the Gulf of Guinea. It has an area of (including offshore islets) and a population of 7,324 at the 2012 Cens ...
in
São Tomé and Príncipe São Tomé and Príncipe, officially the Democratic Republic of São Tomé and Príncipe, is an island country in the Gulf of Guinea, off the western equatorial coast of Central Africa. It consists of two archipelagos around the two main isla ...
. It was first described in 2015.


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* adamastor Endemic vertebrates of São Tomé and Príncipe Reptiles described in 2015 Taxa named by Luis M. P. Ceríaco {{Lygosominae-stub