Trachylepis margaritifera

Rainbow skink
Female (top) and male (below) basking on a granite outcrop in South Africa
Scientific classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Squamata
Family: Scincidae
Genus: Trachylepis
Species:
T. margaritifera
Binomial name
Trachylepis margaritifera
(Peters, 1854)
Synonyms
  • Euprepes margaritifer Peters 1854
  • Mabuya obsti Werner 1913
  • Mabuya obsti Loveridge 1923
  • Mabuya quinquetaeniata obsti Loveridge 1936
  • Mabuya quinquetaeniata obsti Broadley 1962
  • Mabuya quinquetaeniata margaritifer Broadley 1962
  • Mabuya quinquetaeniata margaritifer Broadley & Howell 1991
  • Mabuya margaritifer Branch 1993
  • Mabuya quinquetaeniata margaritifer Bauer et al. 1995
  • Mabuya margaritifera Broadley & Bauer 1999
  • Euprepis margaritiferus Mausels et al. 2002
  • Trachylepis margaritifera Bauer 2003
  • Trachylepis margaritifer Branch et al. 2005
  • Mabuya margaritifer Cooper 2005

The rainbow skink (Trachylepis margaritifera) is a species of Afro-Malagasy mabuya or skink in the subfamily Lygosominae.

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