Taxonavigation

Familia: Scincidae
Subfamilia: Eugongylinae
Genus: Oligosoma
Species: Oligosoma maccanni

Name

• Oligosoma maccanni (Hardy, 1977)
  • Authority for current status: Patterson & Daugherty, 1990: 70 ('n. comb.'), 71 ('the present work elevates the subspecies maccanni to species status')
    • Undisputed by all subsequent authorities
  • Original combination: Leiolopisma nigriplantare maccanni
    • Identifiers: ZooBank
  • Original status: valid subspecies of Leiolopisma nigriplantare
  • Primary type: holotype
    • Fixation: designated
    • Description:
    • Repository: MONZ, as NMNZ R1799
  • Type locality: '30 km W of Ranfurly'

References

• Freeman, A.B.; Hickling, G.J.; Bannock, C.A. 1996: Response of the skink Oligosoma maccanni (Reptilia: Lacertilia) to two vertebrate pest-control baits. Wildlife research, 23 (4): 511–516. DOI: 10.1071/WR9960511

• Hardy, G.S. 1977: The New Zealand Scincidae (Reptilia: Lacertilia); a taxonomic and zoogeographic study. New Zealand journal of zoology 4(3): 221–325. DOI: 10.1080/03014223.1977.9517956 . Gbooks. Reference page.  see p. 248
• Holmes, K.M.; Cree, A. 2006: Annual reproduction in females of a viviparous skink (Oligosoma maccanni) in a subalpine environment. Journal of herpetology, 40 (2): 141–151. JSTOR
• Hitchmough, R.A.; Patterson, G.K.; Daugherty, C.H. (compilers) 2009: New Zealand living and recently extinct reptiles. P. 542 in: {{Chapter 24 in ISBN 978-1-877257-72-8}} [incorrectly cited as Oligosoma maccanni (Patterson & Daugherty, 1990)]
• O'Neill, S.B.; Chapple, D.G.; Daugherty, C.H.; Ritchie, P.A. 2008: Phylogeography of two New Zealand lizards: McCann’s skink (Oligosoma maccanni) and the brown skink (O. zelandicum). Molecular phylogenetics and evolution, 48 (3): 1168–1177. DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2008.05.008 PDF

• Patterson, G.B.; Daugherty, C.H. 1990: Four new species and one new subspecies of skinks, genus Leiolopisma (Reptilia: Lacertilia: Scincidae) from New Zealand. Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand 20(1): 65-84. DOI: 10.1080/03036758.1990.10426733 . Reference page. 
• Reardon, J.T.; Norbury, G. 2004: Ectoparasite and hemoparasite infection in a diverse temperate lizard assemblage at Macraes Flat, South Island, New Zealand. Journal of parasitology, 90 (6): 1274–1278. DOI: 10.1645/GE-3326 JSTOR

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