Monard's skink (''Trachylepis monardi'') is a
species of
skink
Skinks are lizards belonging to the family Scincidae, a family in the infraorder Scincomorpha. With more than 1,500 described species across 100 different taxonomic genera, the family Scincidae is one of the most diverse families of lizards. Ski ...
. It is
endemic to
Angola. It is named after , the original species descriptor; the current name is a
replacement name
In biological nomenclature, a ''nomen novum'' (Latin for "new name"), new replacement name (or replacement name, new substitute name, substitute name) is a scientific name that is created specifically to replace another scientific name, but only w ...
to solve
secondary homonymy with ''Euprepis angolensis''
Bocage, 1872
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Reptiles of Angola
Endemic fauna of Angola
Reptiles described in 1937
Taxa named by Albert Monard
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