Feylinia currori

Feylinia currori, also known commonly as Curror's skink, the western forest feylinia, and the western forest limbless skink, is a species of lizard in the family Scincidae. The species is indigenous to Central Africa.[2]

Feylinia currori
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Squamata
Family: Scincidae
Genus: Feylinia
Species:
F. currori
Binomial name
Feylinia currori
Gray, 1845

Etymology

The specific name, currori, is in honor of J. Curror of the Royal Navy, who presented the holotype to John Edward Gray.[3]

Geographic range

F. currori is found in northern Angola (including Cabinda Province), Cameroon, Central African Republic, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Republic of Congo, Gabon, Kenya, Nigeria, and Tanzania.[2][4]

Habitat

The preferred natural habitats of F. currori are forest and savanna, at altitudes from sea level to 1,500 m (4,900 ft).[1]

Description

F. currori may attain a total length of 31 cm (12 in), including a tail of 10.5 cm (4.1 in).[5]

Diet

F. currori predominately preys upon termites.[1]

Reproduction

The mode of reproduction of F. currori is uncertain. It has reported to be oviparous[1] and viviparous.[2]

Taxonomy

F. currori is the type species of the genus Feylinia.[2]

References
  1. Wagner P, Beraducci J, Msuya CA, Howell K, Ngalason W, LeBreton M (2021). "Feylinia currori ". The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2021: https://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2021-1.RLTS.T13152706A13152711.en. Accessed on 11 May 2022.
  2. Feylinia currori at the Reptarium.cz Reptile Database. Accessed 25 February 2021.
  3. 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. (Feylinia currori, p. 63).
  4. Marques, M.P.; Ceríaco, L.M.P.; Blackburn, D.C.; Bauer, A.M. [in French] (2018). "Diversity and distribution of the amphibians and terrestrial reptiles of Angola. Atlas of historical and bibliographic records (1840–2017)" (PDF). Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences. Fourth Series. 65 (Suppl. II): 1–501.
  5. Boulenger GA (1887). Catalogue of the Lizards in the British Museum (Natural History). Second Edition. Volume III. ... Scincidæ .... London: Trustees of the British Museum (Natural History). (Taylor and Francis, printers). xii + 575 pp. + Plates I–XL. (Felinia currori, pp. 431–432).

Further reading
  • Gray JE (1845). Catalogue of the Specimens of Lizards in the Collection of the British Museum. London: Trustees of the British Museum. (Edward Newman, printer). xxviii + 289 pp. (Feylinia currori, new species, p. 129).
  • Jackson K (2002). "Unusual colour variation in the legless skink, Feylinia currori (Scincidae: Feylininae)". African Herp News (35): 5–7.
  • Trape J-F, Trape S, Chirio L (2012). Lézards, crocodiles et tortues d'Afrique occidentale et du Sahara. Paris: IRD Orstom. 503 pp. ISBN 978-2709917261. (in French).
  • Wagner P, Schmitz A (2006). "Feylinia currori Gray, 1845 (Squamata: Scincidae): new distribution records from Kenya". Salamandra 42 (2–3): 183–186.



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