Critically Endangered
Bojer's skink
Gongylomorphus bojerii
Bojer's skink is a skink in the family Scincidae — Gongylomorphus bojerii, recorded as Critically Endangered and tied to France.
The skink
G. Bojerii is about 11 cm (4.3 in) in total length, among them a 6 cm (2.4 in) tail.
Range and habitat
Bojer's skink occurs in patches of the Black River Gorges National Park and on some off-shore islands of Mauritius, among them Ilot Vacoas, Round Island, Serpent Island, Ilot Gabriel, Pigeon Rock, Flat Island, Gunner's Quoin, Ile aux Aigrettes, and Ile de la Passe. The preferred natural habitats of G. Bojerii are grassland, shrubland, and forest, at altitudes from sea level to 280 m (920 ft). The species is endemic to Mauritius among them some of its offshore islands.
Pins are Wikidata “endemic to” fields. Orange dots, when present, are GBIF occurrence tiles — survey bias included.
Habits
G. Bojerii is diurnal and terrestrial.
In crisis
The Asian house shrew (Suncus murinus) has aided in the decline of G. Bojerii. Also, captive breeding and reintroduction efforts at the Gerald Durrell Endemic Wildlife Sanctuary have helped to increase the population of G. Bojerii.
Bojer's skink is Critically Endangered on this catalog because that is the IUCN category stored on Wikidata. Confirm the official criteria and any later count on iucnredlist.org.
Sources
Written for this catalog from the English Wikipedia article on Bojer's skink, Wikidata item Q891181. Family and order context is original field-guide writing about the group, not a copied assessment of this one species. Wikipedia text is CC BY-SA. Not an IUCN assessment. Counts, when quoted, can change — confirm them on the recovery programme and on iucnredlist.org.
