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Mabouya punctatissima
''Mabouya punctatissima'' is a skink described in 1874 on the basis of a single specimen. It was said to be from South Africa, but later researchers doubted that origin and aligned the species with the Noronha skink from Fernando de Noronha, off northeastern Brazil, instead. It is morphologically different from that species, however, and is currently placed in the genus ''Trachylepis'' as a species of uncertain identity.
In 1874, A.W.E. O'Shaughnessy described the new species ''Mabouya punctatissima'' on the basis of a specimen, purchased from a Mr. Parzudaki, which had been labeled as coming from the Cape of Good Hope, a location O'Shaughnessy considered "very doubtful".〔O'Shaughnessy, 1874, p. 300.〕 G.A. Boulenger, in 1887 synonymized it under ''Mabuia punctata'' (the Noronha skink) without comment,〔Boulenger, 1887, p. 160.〕 a position followed by H. Travassos with some doubt. The latter wrote that the description of ''punctatissima'' suggested to him that ''punctatissima'' and the Noronha skink are morphologically different, but that Boulenger's examination of the type and the uncertainty of the type locality inclined him to favor the synonymy.〔Travassos, 1946, pp. 7–8.〕 In 2002, P. Mausfeld and D. Vrcibradic re-examined the holotype, which is the only known specimen. It is similar to ''T. atlantica'', but larger, and lacks well-developed keels on its dorsal scales. Therefore, they suggested that it was not the same as ''T. atlantica'' and that its original locality may have been correct. Although it may represent a valid species of southern African ''Trachylepis'', the name ''Trachylepis punctatissima'' is preoccupied by ''Euprepes punctatissimus'' A. Smith, 1849, also currently placed in ''Trachylepis''.〔Mausfeld and Vrcibradic, 2002, p. 294.〕
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