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The African striped skink (''Trachylepis striata''), commonly called the striped skink, is a 
Striped Skink
Destination Kruger Park *'
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 lizard in the 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 ...
family
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( Scincidae). The species is widespread in East Africa
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and Southern Africa
Southern Africa is the southernmost region of Africa. No definition is agreed upon, but some groupings include the United Nations geoscheme for Africa, United Nations geoscheme, the intergovernmental Southern African Development Community, and ...
. It is not a close relation to the Australian striped skink, '' Ctenotus taeniolatus''.
Description
''T. striata'' is brown or bronze-coloured with two yellowish stripes that run lengthwise on either side of the spine. Both sexes grow to a total length (including tail) of .Spawls S, Howell KM, Drewes RC (2006). ''Reptiles and Amphibians of East Africa''. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press. Their tails are often missing due to predators.Geographic range and subspecies
Former subspecies '' T. s. punctatissima'', '' T. s. sparsa'', and '' T. s. wahlbergii'' have been elevated to species level.References
External links
Striped Skink
Destination Kruger Park *'
Further reading
* Boulenger GA (1887). ''Catalogue of the Lizards in the British Museum (Natural History). Second Edition. Volume III. ... Scincidæ ...'' London: Trustees of the British Museum (Natural History). (Taylor and Francis, printers). xii + 575 pp. + Plates I-XL. (''Mabuia striata'', pp. 204–205; ''Mabuia wahlbergii'', pp. 205–206). * Branch, Bill (2004). ''Field Guide to Snakes and other Reptiles of Southern Africa''. Third Revised edition, Second impression. Sanibel Island, Florida: Ralph Curtis Books. 399 pp. . (''Mabuya striata'', pp. 156–157 + Plate 54). * Peters W (1844). "''Über einege neue Fische und Amphibien aus Angola und Mozambique'' ". ''Bericht über die zur Bekanntmachung geeigneten Verhandlungen der Königlich Preussischen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin'' 1844: 32–37. (''Tropidolepisma striatum'', new species, pp. 36–37). (in German). Trachylepis Skinks of Africa Reptiles described in 1844 Taxa named by Wilhelm Peters Lizards of Africa Reptiles of South Africa {{Lygosominae-stub