Vesey-Fitzgerald's burrowing skink

Vesey-Fitzgerald's burrowing skink
Conservation status
Endangered (IUCN 3.1)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Reptilia
Order:	Squamata
Family:	Scincidae
Genus:	Janetaescincus
Species:	J. veseyfitzgeraldi
Binomial name
Janetaescincus veseyfitzgeraldi (Parker, 1947)
Synonyms
Amphiglossus veseyfitzgeraldi Parker, 1947 Janetaescincus veseyfitzgeraldi — , 1970 Scelotes veseyfitzgeraldi — Henkel & W. Schmidt, 2000 Janetaescincus veseyfitzgeraldi — Austin et al., 2009

Vesey-Fitzgerald's burrowing skink (Janetaescincus veseyfitzgeraldi ) is a species of lizard in the skink family, Scincidae.

The specific epithet, veseyfitzgeraldi, commemorates the Irish ecologist Leslie Desmond Edward Foster Vesey-Fitzgerald.

J. veseyfitzgeraldi is found only in the Seychelles.

The natural habitat of J. veseyfitzgeraldi is tropical moist lowland forests.

J. veseyfitzgeraldi is threatened by habitat loss.

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