Combinations

• Mocoa lichenigera O’Shaughnessy, 1874: 298 [original combination]
• Lygosoma (Leiolopisma) lichenigerum — Smith, 1937: 224 [subsequent combination]
• Leiolopisma lichenigerum — Greer, 1974: 16 [subsequent combination]
• Cyclodina lichenigera — Cogger et al., 1983 [subsequent combination]
• Pseudemoia lichenigera — Cogger, 1992 [subsequent combination]
• Oligosoma lichenigera — Smith, 2001; Smith et al., 2007 [subsequent combination]
• Oligosoma lichenigerum — Chapple, Ritchie & Daugherty, 2009: 485 [subsequent combination, incorrect agreement (gender neuter)]

Synonyms

• Vaderscincus coynei Wells & Wellington, 1985: 40 [synonymized by Shea & Sadlier (1999: 64)]

Holotype: AM R80454.

Type locality: “Phillip I., off Norfolk I.”.

Primary references

• O’Shaughnessy, A.W.E. 1874. Descriptions of new species of Scincidæ in the collection of the British Museum. Annals and Magazine of Natural History Series 4, 13(76): 298–301. DOI: 10.1080/00222937408680864 BHL Reference page. 
• Wells, R.W. & Wellington, C.R. 1985. A classification of the Amphibia and Reptilia of Australia. Australian Journal of Herpetology supplementary series, (1): 1–61. Full article (PDF).

Links

• Uetz, P. & Hallermann, J. 2022. Oligosoma lichenigera. The Reptile Database. Accessed on 6 July 2018.
• Chapple, D.C, Cogger, H. & Wilson, S. 2018. IUCN: Oligosoma lichenigera  (Vulnerable). The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2018: e.T40796A101743623.