Feylinia currori Gray, 1845

Pauwels, Olivier S. G., Morelle, Stephan, Albert, Jean-Louis, Carlino, Piero, Rahola, Nil & Trape, Jean-François, 2019, New reptile records from Lékédi Park and Haut-Ogooué Province, southeastern Gabon, Amphibian & Reptile Conservation (e 174) 13 (1), pp. 143-161 : 147

Feylinia currori Gray, 1845

On 10 April 2016 at 17h00 SM found an adult individual ( RBINS 18473 ) active along a road in Lékédi Park. It has a snout-vent length of 156 mm, a tail length of 60 mm, 25 scale rows at midbody, two supranasal scales, one loreal on each side separating the supranasal from the preocular; on each side the ocular scale is in contact with the 3 rd supralabial. Another adult individual ( RBINS 18474 ) was found at 17h00 by SM on 11 October 2016 in a natural ditch in the park; it was then active and quickly moved in the soft soil to hide under a rock. It had a snout-vent length of 164 mm, a tail length of 67 mm, two supranasal scales, 26 scale rows at midbody; its ocular scale is in contact with the 3 rd supralabial. A third individual ( RBINS 18498 ) was found in the park by SM on 7 July 2017 at 17h30; it has a snout-vent length of 128 mm, a tail length of 49 mm, 26 scale rows at midbody, two supranasal scales, and on each side the ocular scale is in contact with the 3 rd supralabial. On 14 November 2017 Jean-Louis Albert (~ JLA) found a young individual (total length 120 mm), freshly dead-on-road in Franceville in Passa Dept. ( Fig. 10 ). New record for the park and new Prov. record; Haut-Ogooué Province was the last Gabonese province from which this common species had not yet been recorded (see distribution given by Pauwels and Vande weghe 2008) .

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Fig. 10. Young Feylinia currori in Franceville, Haut-Ogooué Prov., southeastern Gabon. Photograph by J.-L. Albert.