Vesey-Fitzgerald's burrowing skink

Vesey-Fitzgerald's burrowing skink (Janetaescincus veseyfitzgeraldi) is a species of lizard in the family Scincidae. The species is endemic to the Seychelles.[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]

References
  1. Species Janetaescincus veseyfitzgeraldi at The Reptile Database . www.reptile-database.org.
  2. Gerlach J, Ineich I (2006). "Janetaescincus veseyfitzgeraldi ". The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2006: e.T61438A12484713. https://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2006.RLTS.T61438A12484713.en. Downloaded on 07 October 2020.
  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).

Further reading
  • Greer AE (1970). "The Systematics and Evolution of the Subsaharan Africa, Seychelles, and Mauritius Scincine Scincid Lizards". Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 140 (1): 1–23. (Janetaescincus veseyfitzgeraldi, new combination, p. 18).
  • Henkel F-W, Schmidt W (2000). Amphibians and Reptiles of Madagascar and the Mascarene, Seychelles, and Comoro Islands. Malabar, Florida: Krieger Publishing. 316 pp. ISBN 978-1575240145. (Scelotes veseyfitzgeraldi).
  • Parker HW (1947). In: Vesey-Fitzgerald D (1947). "Reptiles and Amphibians from the Seychelles Archipelago". Annals and Magazine of Natural History, Eleventh Series 14: 577–584. (Amphiglossus veseyfitzgeraldi, new species).



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