Feylinia boulengeri is a species of skink, a lizard in the family Scincidae. 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.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).
Geographic range F. boulengeri is endemic to Gabon.
Habitat The preferred natural habitat of F. boulengeri is forest, at an altitude of .
Behavior F. boulengeri is terrestrial and fossorial.
Reproduction The mode of reproduction of F. boulengeri is unknown.
Etymology The specific name, boulengeri, is in honor of Belgian-born British herpetologist George Albert Boulenger.Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. . (C. boulengeri, pp. 34–35).
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. . (Genus Chabanaudia, p. 303).
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