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Species of lizard

Marbled skink
Conservation status

Near Threatened  (IUCN 3.1)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Squamata
Family: Scincidae
Genus: Oligosoma
Species: O. oliveri
Binomial name
Oligosoma oliveri
(McCann, 1955)
Synonyms
  • Leiolopisma oliveri
    McCann, 1955
  • Leiolopisma pachystomaticum
    Robb, 1975
  • Cyclodina oliveri
    Hardy, 1977
  • Oligosoma oliveri
    Patterson & T.P. Bell, 2009

The marbled skink (Oligosoma oliveri) is a species of skink in the family Scincidae. The species is endemic to New Zealand.

Etymology

The specific name, oliveri, is in honor of New Zealand ornithologist Walter Oliver.

Reproduction

O. oliveri is viviparous.

References

  1. Hitchmough, R.; Chapple, D.G. (2021). "Oligosoma oliveri". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2021: e.T203035599A120190349. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2021-2.RLTS.T203035599A120190349.en. Retrieved 16 November 2021.
  2. ^ Species Oligosoma oliveri at The Reptile Database . www.reptile-database.org.
  3. Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. ISBN 978-1-4214-0135-5. ("Cyclodina oliveri ", p. 194).

Further reading

  • Chapple DG, Ritchie PA, Daugherty CH (2009). "Origin, diversification, and systematics of the New Zealand skink fauna (Reptilia: Scincidae)". Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 52 (2): 470–487.
  • McCann C (1955). "The Lizards of New Zealand. Gekkonidae and Scincidae". Dominion Museum Bulletin (17): 1–127. (Leiolopisma oliveri, new species, pp. 76–77, 79, 94 + Plate XIII, figures 1–5).
  • van Winkel D, Baling M, Hitchmough R (2019). Reptiles and Amphibians of New Zealand: A Field Guide. Auckland, New Zealand: Auckland University Press. viii + 366 pp. (Oligosoma oliveri, pp. 157, 286–287, 297–298).
Taxon identifiers
Oligosoma oliveri


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