| Vesey-Fitzgerald's Burrowing Skink | |
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| Conservation status | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Order: | Squamata |
| Family: | Scincidae |
| Genus: | Janetaescincus |
| Species: | J. veseyfitzgeraldi |
| Binomial name | |
| Janetaescincus veseyfitzgeraldi Parker, 1947 |
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Vesey-Fitzgerald's Burrowing Skink (Janetaescincus veseyfitzgeraldi) is a species of lizard in the skink family, Scincidae. It is found only in the Seychelles. Its natural habitat is tropical moist lowland forests. It is threatened by habitat loss.
The species epithethon commedorates the Irish ecologist Leslie Desmond Foster Vesey-Fitzgerald.