Vesey-Fitzgerald's burrowing skink

Vesey-Fitzgerald's burrowing skink (Janetaescincus veseyfitzgeraldi ) is a species of lizard in the skink family, Scincidae.[2]

Vesey-Fitzgerald's burrowing skink
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Squamata
Family: Scincidae
Genus: Janetaescincus
Species:
J. veseyfitzgeraldi
Binomial name
Janetaescincus veseyfitzgeraldi
(Parker, 1947)
Synonyms[1]
  • Amphiglossus veseyfitzgeraldi
    Parker, 1947
  • Janetaescincus veseyfitzgeraldi
    — Greer, 1970
  • Scelotes veseyfitzgeraldi
    — Henkel & W. Schmidt, 2000
  • Janetaescincus veseyfitzgeraldi
    — Austin et al., 2009

Etymology

The specific epithet, veseyfitzgeraldi, commemorates the Irish ecologist Leslie Desmond Edward Foster Vesey-Fitzgerald.[3]

Geographic range

J. veseyfitzgeraldi is found only in the Seychelles.[2]

Habitat

The natural habitat of J. veseyfitzgeraldi is tropical moist lowland forests.[2]

Conservation status

J. veseyfitzgeraldi is threatened by habitat loss.[2]

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References
  1. Species Janetaescincus veseyfitzgeraldi at The Reptile Database . www.reptile-database.org.
  2. Gerlach J, Ineich I (2006). Janetaescincus veseyfitzgeraldi. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Archived June 27, 2014, at the Wayback Machine Downloaded on 20 July 2007.
  3. Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. ISBN 978-1-4214-0135-5. (Janetaescincus veseyfitzgeraldi, p. 275).


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