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.
Etymology The specific name, currori, is in honor of J. Curror of the Royal Navy, who presented the holotype to John Edward Gray.Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. . (Feylinia currori, p. 63).
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.
Habitat The preferred natural habitats of F. currori are forest and savanna, at altitudes from sea level to .
Description F. currori may attain a total length of , including a tail of .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).
Diet F. currori predominately preys upon termites.
Reproduction The mode of reproduction of F. currori is uncertain. It has reported to be oviparous and viviparous.
Taxonomy F. currori is the type species of the genus Feylinia.
References
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. . (in French). Wagner P, Schmitz A (2006). "Feylinia currori Gray, 1845 (Squamata: Scincidae): new distribution records from Kenya". Salamandra 42 (2–3): 183–186.