Cophoscincopus

Cophoscincopus (common name: keeled water skinks) is a genus of skinks, lizards in the family Scincidae. The genus is endemic to West Africa. As suggested by the common name, species in the genus Cophoscincopus are semi-aquatic.

Species
There are four recognized species in the genus Cophoscincopus.
 * Cophoscincopus durus (Cope, 1862)
 * Cophoscincopus greeri Böhme, Schmitz & Ziegler, 2000
 * Cophoscincopus senegalensis J.-F. Trape, Mediannikov & S. Trape, 2012
 * Cophoscincopus simulans (Vaillant, 1884)

Nota bene: A binomial authority in parentheses indicates that the species was originally described in a genus other than Cophoscincopus.