Feylinia boulengeri
Feylinia boulengeri | |
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Reptilia |
Order: | Squamata |
Family: | Scincidae |
Genus: | Feylinia |
Species: | †F. boulengeri |
Binomial name | |
Feylinia boulengeri (Chabanaud, 1917) | |
Synonyms | |
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Feylinia boulengeri is an African lizard in the family Scincidae[1] commonly known as skinks.
Description
The species in this genus has reduced eyes and ear openings covered with skin.
Geographic range
Etymology
The specific name, boulengeri, is in honor of Belgian-born British herpetologist George Albert Boulenger.[2]
References
- 1 2 "Feylinia boulengeri ". The Reptile Database. www.reptile-database.org.
- ↑ 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. (Genus Chabanaudia, pp. 50-51; 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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