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{{Short description|Genus of lizards}}
{{Automatic taxobox
| classification_status = obsolete
| taxon = Euprepis
| authority = Wagler, 1830
| type_species = ''[[Mabuya agilis|Scincus agilis]]''
| type_species_authority=Raddi, 1823{{#tag:ref|Not ''Lacerta punctata'' Linnaeus, 1758, as incorrectly listed by Mausfeld and others in 2002.<ref>Mausfeld et al., 2002, p.&nbsp;289; Bauer, 2003, p.&nbsp;5</ref>|group="fn"}}
| synonyms =
*''Euprepes'' <small>Wiegmann, 1834</small>{{#tag:ref|Incorrect subsequent spelling of ''Euprepes'' Wagler.<ref name=Mea289>Mausfeld et al., 2002, p.&nbsp;289</ref>|group="fn"}}
}}

'''''Euprepis''''' is an obsolete [[genus]] of [[skink]]s in the subfamily [[Lygosominae]]. It was named by [[Johann Georg Wagler|Wagler]] in 1830 and frequently used in subsequent years, often misspelled as '''''Euprepes''''', a misspelling introduced by Wiegmann in 1834.<ref name=Mea289/> It was then subsumed under the large skink genus ''[[Mabuya]]'', until Mausfeld and others resurrected it for a group of mainly African skinks they split from ''Mabuya''.<ref name=Mea289/> The following year, Bauer argued that this assignment had been in error and that this group should be called ''[[Trachylepis]]'' instead. ''Euprepis'' itself is a [[synonym (taxonomy)|junior synonym]] of ''Mabuya''.<ref name=B5>Bauer, 2003, p.&nbsp;5</ref>

==Type species==
The identity of the [[type species]], the [[name-bearing type]] which determines the application of a generic name, of ''Euprepis'' has been in some recent dispute. In 1830, Wagler included several species in ''Euprepis'': ''[[Lacerta punctata]]'' Linnaeus, 1758 (=''[[Lygosoma punctatum]]''),<ref name=B4>Bauer, 2003, p.&nbsp;4</ref> ''[[Scincus multifasciatus]]'' Kuhl, 1820, ''[[Scincus trilineatus]]'' Schneider, 1801, ''[[Scincus quinquetaeniatus]]'' Lichtenstein, 1823, ''Scincus agilis'' Raddi, 1823 (=''[[Mabuya agilis]]''),<ref name=B5>Bauer, 2003, p.&nbsp;5</ref> ''[[Lacerta fasciata]]'' Linnaeus, 1758, ''[[Lacerta quinquelineata]]'' Linnaeus, 1758, ''[[Scincus tristatus]]'' Daudin, 1802, and ''[[Scincus Sloanei]]'' Daudin, 1802, but he did not select a type species.<ref name=B4/> Subsequently, [[Leopold Fitzinger|Fitzinger]] selected "''Eumeces mabouia''" (=''[[Mabuya mabouya]]'') as the type species, but his designation is invalid because Wagler did not include this species in his original concept of the genus.<ref name=B4-5>Bauer, 2003, pp.&nbsp;4–5</ref> In 1957, Loveridge selected ''Scincus agilis'' (=''Mabuya agilis'') as the type species from among the species Wagler had included as the type species,<ref name=B5/> and in 1970 Peters and Donoso-Barros listed, without comment, ''Lacerta punctata'' Linnaeus (=''Lygosoma punctatum'') as the type species.<ref name=B4/> When Mausfeld and others split ''Mabuya'' in 2002, they resurrected ''Euprepis'' for the group including African and Malagasy species and the [[Noronha skink]] and also listed ''Lacerta punctata'' as the type species,<ref name=Mea289/> considering all previous type designations invalid.<ref>Mausfeld, pers. comm., in Bauer, 2003, p.&nbsp;4</ref> In 2003, Bauer argued that the earliest type species designation is valid, so the type species of ''Euprepis'' is ''Scincus agilis'', a member of ''Mabuya'' as restricted by Mausfeld and others in 2002 (including only American species), making ''Euprepis'' a junior synonym of ''Mabuya''.<ref name=B5/> Bauer also argued that ''Lacerta punctata'' did not apply to a species of the African ''Mabuya'' group, as Mausfeld and others had assumed, but rather to the Asian species ''[[Lygosoma punctatum]]''.<ref name=B4/>

==Species==
Among the species previously included in ''Euprepis'' or ''Euprepes'' are the following:
*''Euprepis atlanticus'': <small>Mausfeld et al., 2002</small><ref name=Mea290>Mausfeld et al., 2002, p.&nbsp;290</ref> – currently ''[[Trachylepis atlantica]]''<ref name=B5/>
*''Euprepes chaperi'' <small>Vaillant, 1884</small> – currently ''[[Lygosoma sundevalli]]''<ref>Boulenger, 1887, [https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/18439131#327 p.&nbsp;307]</ref>
*''Euprepis punctatus'': <small>Gray, 1845</small><ref name=G111>Gray, 1845, p.&nbsp;111</ref> – currently ''[[Trachylepis atlantica]]''<ref name=B5/>
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==Footnotes==
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==References==
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==Literature cited==
*Bauer, A.M. 2003. On the identity of ''Lacerta punctata'' Linnaeus 1758, the type species of the genus ''Euprepis'' Wagler 1830, and the generic assignment of Afro-Malagasy skinks. African Journal of Herpetology 52:1–7.
*Boulenger, G.A. 1887. [https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/61185#7 Catalogue of the Lizards in the British Museum (Natural History). Second edition. Vol. III. Lacertidae, Gerrosauridae, Scincidae, Anelytropidae, Dibamidae, Chamaeleonidae]. London: published by order of the Trustees of the British Museum, 575&nbsp;pp.
*Gray, J.E. 1845. [https://books.google.com/books?id=ZQsAAAAAQAAJ Catalogue of the specimens of lizards in the collection of the British Museum]. London: published by order of the Trustees of the British Museum, 289&nbsp;pp.
*{{cite journal|doi=10.1078/0044-5231-00081|title= Phylogenetic affinities of ''Mabuya atlantica'' Schmidt, 1945, endemic to the Atlantic Ocean archipelago of Fernando de Noronha (Brazil): Necessity of partitioning the genus ''Mabuya'' Fitzinger, 1826 (Scincidae: Lygosominae)|year= 2002|last1= Mausfeld|first1= Patrick|last2= Schmitz|first2= Andreas|last3= Böhme|first3= Wolfgang|last4= Misof|first4= Bernhard|last5= Vrcibradic|first5= Davor|last6= Rocha|first6= Carlos Frederico Duarte|journal= Zoologischer Anzeiger - A Journal of Comparative Zoology|volume= 241|issue= 3|pages= 281–293}}

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[[Category:Lygosominae]]
[[Category:Obsolete vertebrate taxa]]
[[Category:Lizard genera]]