Feylinia boulengeri

Feylinia boulengeri is an African lizard in the family Scincidae[1] commonly known as skinks.

Feylinia boulengeri
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Squamata
Family: Scincidae
Genus: Feylinia
Species:
F. boulengeri
Binomial name
Feylinia boulengeri
Chabanaud, 1917
Synonyms
  • Chabanaudia boulengeri (Chabanaud, 1917)

Description

The species in this genus has reduced eyes and ear openings covered with skin.

Geographic range

It is endemic to Gabon.[1]

Etymology

The specific name, boulengeri, is in honor of Belgian-born British herpetologist George Albert Boulenger.[2]

References

  1. Feylinia boulengeri at the Reptarium.cz Reptile Database. Accessed 7 September 2020.
  2. 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. (C. boulengeri, pp. 34–35).

Further reading

  • Chabanaud P (1917). "Descriptions de trois espèces nouvelles de Reptiles de l'Afrique ". Bulletin du Muséum national d'histoire naturelle, Paris 23: 219–225. (Feylinia boulengeri, new species, pp. 221–222). ( in French).
  • de Witte G-F, Laurent RF (1943). "Contribution à la systématique des formes dégradées de la famille des Scincidae apparentées au genre Scelotes Fitzinger ". Mémoires du Musée royal d'histoire naturelle de Belgique, Series 2, 26: 1-44. (Chabanaudia, new genus). (in French).
  • Goin CJ, Goin OB, Zug GR (1978). Introduction to Herpetology, Third Edition. San Francisco: W.H. Freeman and Company. xi + 378 pp. ISBN 0-7167-0020-4. (Genus Chabanaudia, p. 303).


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