| Higher Taxa | Scincidae, Scincinae, Scincoidea, Sauria, Squamata (lizards) |
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| Common Names | E: Elegant Feylinia |
| Synonym | Acontias elegans HALLOWELL 1854: 64
Sphenorhina elegans — HALLOWELL 1857: 52
Anelytrops elegans — BOCAGE 1866: 45
Feylinia elegans — SCHMIDT 1919: 605
Feylinia elegans elegans — DE WITTE & LAURENT 1942: 108
Feylinia elegans elegans — DE WITTE & LAURENT 1943: 36
Feylinia elegans — CHIRIO & INEICH 2006
Feylinia elegans — CHIRIO & LEBRETON 2007: 234 |
| Distribution | Equatorial Guinea, Congo (Brazzaville), Democratic Republic of the Congo (Zaire), Angola, Central African Republic, Cameroon? (probably)
Type locality: “Liberia, West Coast of Africa”.
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| Reproduction | ovoviviparous |
| Types | Holotype: ANSP 9456, collected H.A. Ford (see Brygoo & Roux-Estève, 1983, for determination of limits of type series). |
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| Comment | Distribution: Not listed by BROADLEY 1998 for the Democratic Republic of the Congo (Zaire). Not in Gabon fide PAUWELS & VANDE WEGHE 2008. Not in East Africa (i.e. Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi fide S. Spawls, pers. comm., 28 June 2018). For a map with localities in Equatorial Guinea see SÁNCHEZ-VIALAS et al. 2022.
Reference images: see Uetz et al. 2024 for high-resolution reference images for this species. |
| Etymology | Named after Latin elegans, elegant, fine, handsome. |
| References |
- Bocage,J.V. du B. 1866. Lista dos reptis das possessões portuguezas d'Africa occidental que existem no Museu Lisboa. Jorn. Sci. Math. Phys. Nat. Lisboa 1: 37-56 - get paper here
- Brygoo,E.R. & Roux-Esteve 1983. Feylinia, genre de lézards africains de la famille des Scincidae, sous-famille des Feyliniinae. Bull. Mus. Nation. Hist. Nat. Paris (4) 5: 307-341
- Chirio, Laurent and Ivan Ineich 2006. Biogeography of the reptiles of the Central African Republic. African Journal of Herpetology 55(1):23-59. - get paper here
- Hallowell,E. 1854. Description of new species of Reptilia from western Africa. Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia 64 [1852]: 62-65 - get paper here
- Hallowell,E. 1857. Notes of a collection of reptiles from the Gaboon country, West Africa, recently presented to the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, by Dr. Herny A. Ford. Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia 9: 48-72 - get paper here
- Marques, Mariana P.; Luis M. P. Ceríaco , David C. Blackburn , and Aaron M. Bauer 2018. Diversity and Distribution of the Amphibians and Terrestrial Reptiles of Angola -- Atlas of Historical and Bibliographic Records (1840–2017). Proc. Cal. Acad. Sci. (Ser. 4) 65: 1-501 (Supplement II)
- SÁNCHEZ-VIALAS, A., CALVO-REVUELTA, M. & DE LA RIVA, I. 2022. Synopsis of the terrestrial Reptiles of Equatorial Guinea. Zootaxa 5202 (1): 1-197 - get paper here
- Schmidt, Karl Patterson 1919. Contributions to the Herpetology of the Belgian Congo based on the Collection of the American Congo Expedition, 1909-1915. Part I: turtles, crocodiles, lizards, and chamaeleons. Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist. 39 (2): 385-624 - get paper here
- Uetz, P.H.; Patel, M.; Gbadamosi, Z.; Nguyen, A.; Shoope, S. 2024. A Reference Database of Reptile Images. Taxonomy 4: 723–732 - get paper here
- Witte, G. F. de & R. LAURENT 1942. Contribution à la Faune Herpétologique du Congo belge. Rev. Zool. Bot. Afr. 36 (2): 101-115
- Witte, G.F. de & R. LAURENT 1943. Contribution à la systématique des formes dégradées de la famille des Scincidae apparentées au genre Scelotes Fitzinger. Mém. Mus. r. Hist. nat. Belg. (sér.2) 26: 44 pp. - get paper here
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