marbled skink

{{Short description|Species of lizard}}

{{Use New Zealand English|date=July 2024}}

{{speciesbox

|name=Marbled skink

|image=Oligosoma oliveri 455588101.jpg

|status= NT

| status_system = IUCN3.1

| status_ref = {{cite iucn |author=Hitchmough, R. |author2=Chapple, D.G. |date=2021 |title=Oligosoma oliveri |volume=2021 |page=e.T203035599A120190349 |doi=10.2305/IUCN.UK.2021-2.RLTS.T203035599A120190349.en |access-date=16 November 2021}}

|genus=Oligosoma

|species=oliveri

|authority=(McCann, 1955)

|synonyms=*Leiolopisma oliveri
{{small|McCann, 1955}}

  • Leiolopisma pachystomaticum
    {{small|Robb, 1975}}
  • Cyclodina oliveri
    {{small|— Hardy, 1977}}
  • Oligosoma oliveri
    {{small|— Patterson & T.P. Bell, 2009}}

|synonyms_ref={{EMBL species|genus=Oligosoma|species=oliveri}}. www.reptile-database.org.

| range_map = New Zealand - Poor Knights Islands location map.svg

| range_map_caption = Distribution of the marbled skink on a map of the North Island {{leftlegend|#05833E|Known native range}}

}}

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.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).

Reproduction

O. oliveri is viviparous.

References

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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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Category:Endemic reptiles of New Zealand

Category:Oligosoma

Category:Reptiles described in 1955

Category:Taxa named by Charles McCann

Category:Taxonomy articles created by Polbot

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