The marbled skink (Oligosoma oliveri) is a species of skink in the family Scincidae. The species is endemic to New Zealand.
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Order: | Squamata |
| Family: | Scincidae |
| Genus: | Oligosoma |
| Species: | O. oliveri
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| Binomial name | |
| Oligosoma oliveri (McCann, 1955)
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Etymology
editThe specific name, oliveri, is in honor of New Zealand ornithologist Walter Oliver.[3]
Reproduction
editO. oliveri is viviparous.[2]
References
edit- ^ 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.
- ^ a b Species Oligosoma oliveri at The Reptile Database . www.reptile-database.org.
- ^ 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
edit- 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).