Marbled skink

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

Marbled skink
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[2]
  • Leiolopisma oliveri
    McCann, 1955
  • Leiolopisma pachystomaticum
    Robb, 1975
  • Cyclodina oliveri
    — Hardy, 1977
  • Oligosoma oliveri
    — Patterson & T.P. Bell, 2009

Etymology

The specific name, oliveri, is in honor of New Zealand ornithologist Walter Oliver.[3]

Reproduction

O. oliveri is viviparous.[2]

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).


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