Marbled skink

Marbled skink
Conservation status
Near Threatened  (IUCN 3.1) [1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Reptilia
Order:	Squamata
Suborder:	Scinciformata
Infraorder:	Scincomorpha
Family:	Eugongylidae
Genus:	Oligosoma
Species:	O. oliveri
Binomial name
Oligosoma oliveri (McCann, 1955)
Distribution of the marbled skink on a map of the North Island   Known native range
Synonyms [2]
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. ^[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 Evolution52 (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).