Vesey-Fitzgerald's burrowing skink
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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 skink family, Scincidae.[2]
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
- ^ Species Janetaescincus veseyfitzgeraldi at The Reptile Database . www.reptile-database.org.
- ^ a b c d 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.
- ^ 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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