Vesey-Fitzgerald's Burrowing Skink

Vesey-Fitzgerald's Burrowing Skink

Taxobox
name = Vesey-Fitzgerald's Burrowing Skink
status = EN | status_system = IUCN3.1
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Reptilia
ordo = Squamata
familia = Scincidae
genus = "Janetaescincus"
species = "J. veseyfitzgeraldi"
binomial = "Janetaescincus veseyfitzgeraldi"
binomial_authority = Parker, 1947
synonyms =

Vesey-Fitzgerald's Burrowing Skink ("Janetaescincus veseyfitzgeraldi") is a species of lizard in the skink family, Scincidae. It is found only in the Seychelles. Its natural habitat is tropical moist lowland forests. It is threatened by habitat loss.

The species epithethon commedorates the Irish ecologist Lesley Desmond Foster Vesey-Fitzgerald.

References

* Gerlach, J. & Ineich, I. 2006. [http://www.iucnredlist.org/search/details.php/61438/all Janetaescincus veseyfitzgeraldi] . [http://www.iucnredlist.org 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. ] Downloaded on 20 July 2007.


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