Oligosoma maccanni

Taxonavigation edit

Taxonavigation: Scincoidea
Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Superphylum: Deuterostomia Phylum: Chordata Subphylum: Vertebrata Infraphylum: Gnathostomata Megaclassis: Osteichthyes Cladus: Sarcopterygii Cladus: Rhipidistia Cladus: Tetrapodomorpha Cladus: Eotetrapodiformes Cladus: Elpistostegalia Superclassis: Tetrapoda Cladus: Reptiliomorpha Cladus: Amniota Classis: Reptilia Cladus: Eureptilia Cladus: Romeriida Subclassis: Diapsida Cladus: Sauria Infraclassis: Lepidosauromorpha Superordo: Lepidosauria Ordo: Squamata Subordo: Scincomorpha Superfamilia: Scincoidea

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

Name edit

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 edit

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:
King, C.M., Roberts, C.D., Bell, B.D., Fordyce, R.E., Nicoll, R.S., Worthy, T.H., Paulin, C.D., Hitchmough, R.A., Keyes, I.W., Baker, A.N., Stewart, A.L., Hiller, N., McDowall, R.M., Holdaway, R.N., McPhee, R.P., Schwarzhans, W.W., Tennyson A.J.D., Rust, S. & McCadie, I. 2009. Phylum Chordata: lancelets, fishes, amphibians, reptiles, birds, mammals. Pp. 431–551 in: Gordon, D.P. (ed.) 2009. New Zealand inventory of biodiversity. Volume 1. Kingdom Animalia. Radiata, Lophotrochozoa, Deuterostomia. Canterbury University Press, Christchurch, New Zealand. ISBN 978-1-877257-72-8 Reference page. [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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Vernacular names edit

English: McCann’s skink