Feylinia boulengeri
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Feylinia boulengeri is a species of skink, a lizard in the family Scincidae.<ref name="RDB"/> The species is native to Central Africa.
Description
F. boulengeri, like all species in the genus Feylinia, has no legs, and has reduced eyes and ear openings covered with skin.<ref>Boulenger GA (1887). Catalogue of the Lizards in the British Museum (Natural History). Second Edition. Volume III. Lacertidæ, Gerrhosauridæ, Scincidæ, Anelytropidæ, Dibamidæ, Chamæleontidæ. London: Trustees of the British Museum (Natural History). (Taylor and Francis, printers). xii + 575 pp. + Plates I–XL. (Family Anelytropidæ, p. 430).</ref>
Geographic range
F. boulengeri is endemic to Gabon.<ref name=RDB/>
Habitat
The preferred natural habitat of F. boulengeri is forest, at an altitude of Template:Convert.<ref name="iucn status 18 November 2021" />
Behavior
F. boulengeri is terrestrial and fossorial.<ref name="iucn status 18 November 2021" />
Reproduction
The mode of reproduction of F. boulengeri is unknown.<ref name=RDB/>
Etymology
The specific name, boulengeri, is in honor of Belgian-born British herpetologist George Albert Boulenger.<ref name=EDR>Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. Template:ISBN. (C. boulengeri, pp. 34–35).</ref>
References
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, Figures 3–5). (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. Template:ISBN. (Genus Chabanaudia, p. 303).