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Tripolitania and from Ghemines (Qaminis, western Cyrenaica), based on Calabresi (1923). Sever¬ 
al BMNH specimens purportedly from Fezzan (BMNH 1965.1221-23) have been examined and 
both their identities and localities appear correctly recorded. We accept these records provisional¬ 
ly, pending further investigation. 
IUCN Threat Status. — Least Concern. 
Philochortus zolii Scortecci, 1934 
1934 Philochortus zolii Scortecci, Descrizione preliminare di una nuova specie del genere Philochortus 
(Philochortus zolii) della zona di Gat (Missione della reale Societa Geografica). Atti della Societa italiano di 
Scienze Naturali e del Museo Civico di Storio Naturale di Milano, 73:305-308. 
Holotype. — MCSN specimen number not known, destroyed in World War II (?), “oasi di Elbarkat, a 
pochi chilometri a sud di gat” [Oasis of El Barkat, a few kilometers south of Ghat]. 
Philochortus zolii, Le Berre 1989:212. 
Philochortus zolii, Schleich, Kastle, and Kabisch 1996:435. 
Philochortus zolii, Sindaco and Jeremcenko 2008:267. 
Philochortus zolii, Trape, Trape, and Chirio 2012:336. 
Distribution. — Scattered localities in 
Libya (Ghat and 35 miles west of Ajdabiya), 
Egypt (Wadi El Natrun; Kamal et al. 1966; 
Marx 1968; Baha El Din 2006a), Niger (In 
Abezou) and Mali (Bourem) (Trape et al. 
2012 ). 
Libyan Records (Map 36): FEZZAN: 
Ghat : 254: Scortecci 1934a, 1937b; Zavattari 
1937. “Sahara tripolitain”: Angel and Lhote 
1938. CYRENAICA: Al Wahat : 534: MCZ 
46850; Marx 1968. 
Comments.— Trape et al. (2012) syn- 
onymized P. zolii and P. ihotei Angel, 1936, the 
latter originally described from Niger. This 
species has a huge distribution with known 
localities stretching from the Sahel through 
Saharan oases to the edge of the Nile Delta. 
IUCN Threat Status. — Endangered 
B2ab(ii, iii) fide Wagner et al. (2013), downgraded from its 2006 assessment as Critically Endan¬ 
gered. 
Map 36. Distribution of Philochortis zolii in Libya. 
Family Scincidae 
Chalcides boulengeri Anderson, 1892:17, pi. 1, figs. 1-3 (Fig. 27) 
1892 Chalcides boulengeri Anderson, On a small collection of mammals, reptiles, and batrachians from 
Barbary. Proceedings of the zoological Society of London, 1892:3-24, pi. 1. 
Syntypes. — ZBMNH 1946.8.2.77-78, “Duirat, Tunisia.” 
Sphenops sepoides [part], Le Berre 1989:230. 
Sphenops boulengeri, Schleich, Kastle, and Kabisch 1996:366. 
Sphenops boulengeri, Sindaco and Jeremcenko 2008:201. 
Chalcides boulengeri, Trape, Trape, and Chirio 2012:340. 
