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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Order: | Squamata |
| Family: | Scincidae |
| Genus: | Janetaescincus |
| Species: | J. veseyfitzgeraldi
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| Janetaescincus veseyfitzgeraldi (Parker, 1947)
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Vesey-Fitzgerald's burrowing skink (Janetaescincus veseyfitzgeraldi) is a species of lizard in the family Scincidae. The species is endemic to the Seychelles.[3]
Etymology
[edit]The specific epithet, veseyfitzgeraldi, commemorates the Irish ecologist Leslie Desmond Edward Foster Vesey-Fitzgerald.[4]
Geographic range
[edit]J. veseyfitzgeraldi is found only in the Seychelles.[3]
Habitat
[edit]The natural habitat of J. veseyfitzgeraldi is tropical moist lowland forests.[3]
Conservation status
[edit]J. veseyfitzgeraldi is threatened by habitat loss.[1]
References
[edit]- ^ a b Gerlach, J.; Ineich, I. (2006). "Janetaescincus veseyfitzgeraldi". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2006: e.T61438A12484713. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2006.RLTS.T61438A12484713.en. Retrieved 16 November 2021.
- ^ Species Janetaescincus veseyfitzgeraldi at The Reptile Database . www.reptile-database.org.
- ^ a b c Gerlach, J.; Ineich, I. (2006). "Janetaescincus veseyfitzgeraldi". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2006: e.T61438A12484713. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2006.RLTS.T61438A12484713.en. Retrieved 18 November 2021.
- ^ 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
[edit]- 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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