Oligosoma

Oligosoma otagense

Taxonavigation

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 (57): O. acrinasum – O. aeneum – O. alani – O. albornense – O. aureocola – O. auroraense – O. awakopaka – O. burganae – O. carinacauda – O. chloronoton – O. elium – O. eludens – O. fallai – O. grande – O. hardyi – O. homalonotum – O. hoparatea – O. inconspicuum – O. infrapunctatum – O. judgei – O. kahurangi – O. kakerakau – O. kokowai – O. levidensum – O. lichenigerum – O. lineoocellatum – O. longipes – O. maccanni – O. macgregori – O. microlepis – O. moco – O. newmani – O. nigriplantare – O. northlandi – O. notosaurus – O. oliveri – O. ornatum – O. otagense – O. pachysomaticum – O. pikitanga – O. polychroma – O. prasinum – O. repens – O. robinsoni – O. roimata – O. salmo – O. smithi – O. stenotis – O. striatum – O. suteri – O. taumakae – O. tekakahu – O. toka – O. townsi – O. waimatense – O. whitakeri – O. zelandicum

Name

Oligosoma Girard, 1857: 196

• Type species: Tiliqua zelandica Gray, 1843, by original designation.

Synonyms

• Cyclodina Girard, 1857: 195
  • Type species: Cyclodina aenea Girard, 1857, by monotypy.
• Hombronia Girard, 1857 [nomen praeoccupatum pro Hombronia Jacquinot & Lucas, 1853]
  • Type species: Hombronia fasciolaris Girard, 1857, by subsequent designation.
• Lygosomella Girard, 1857: 196
  • Type species: Lygosomella aestuosa Girard, 1857, by monotypy.
• Vaderscincus Wells & Wellington, 1984: 104
  • Type species: Mocoa lichenigera O'Shaughnessy, 1874, by original designation.
• Girardiscincus Wells & Wellington, 1985: 63
  • Type species: Leiolopisma grande otagense McCann, 1955, by original designation.
• Robbisaurus Wells & Wellington, 1985: 63
  • Type species: Lygosoma suteri Boulenger, 1906, by original designation.
• Hardyscincus Wells & Wellington, 1985: 63 [nomen novum pro Hombronia Girard, 1857]

References

Primary references

• Girard, C.F. 1857. Descriptions of some new reptiles, collected by the United States Exploring Expedition, under the command of Capt. Charles Wilkes, U. S. N. Fourth part. - Including the species of saurians, exotic to North America. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 9: 195–199. BHL Reference page. 
• Wells, R.W. & Wellington, C.R. [1983] 1984. A synopsis of the class Reptilia in Australia. Australian Journal of Herpetology 1(3–4): 73–129. 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. Reference page. 
• Wells, R.W. & Wellington, C.R. 1985. A synopsis of the Amphibia and Reptilia of New Zealand. Australian Journal of Herpetology, Supplementary Series 1: 62–64. Reference page. 

Additional references

• Jewell, T.R. 2019. New Zealand forest-dwelling skinks of the Oligosoma oliveri (McCann) species-complex (Reptilia: Scincidae): reinstatement of O.pachysomaticum (Robb) and assesment of hitorical distribution ranges. Zootaxa 4688(3): 389–398. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4688.3.5 Reference page. 
• Towns, D.R. 1974. Zoogeography and the New Zealand Scincidae. Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand 4(2): 217–226. Google books
• Robb, J. 1975. Two new skinks of the genus Leiolopisma from New Zealand. Proceedings of the Section of Sciences, Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen (C), 78(5): 477–483.
• Robb, J. 1977. A revision of the synonymy of three species of leiolopismid skinks from New Zealand. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History). Zoology 31: 303–310. BHL Internet Archive
• 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. 
• 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. 
• Worthy, T.H. 1991. Fossil skink bones from Northland, New Zealand, and description of a new species of Cyclodina, Scincidae. Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand 21(4): 329–348. DOI: 10.1080/03036758.1991.10420831 Reference page. 
• Patterson, G.B. & Daugherty, C.H. 1994. Leiolopisma stenotis, n. sp., (Reptilia: Lacertilia: Scincidae) from Stewart Island, New Zealand. Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand 24(1): 125–132. DOI: 10.1080/03014223.1994.9517459 Reference page. 
• Patterson, G.B. & Daugherty, C.H. 1995. Reinstatement of the genus Oligosoma (Reptilia: Lacertilia: Scincidae). Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand 25(3): 327–331. DOI: 10.1080/03014223.1995.9517493 Reference page. 
• Patterson, G.B. 1997: South Island skinks of the genus Oligosoma: description of O. longipes n. sp. with redescription of O. otagense (McCann) and O. waimatense (McCann). Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand 27(4): 439-450. DOI: 10.1080/03014223.1997.9517547 .
• Chapple, D.G., Patterson, G.B., Bell, T.P. & Daugherty, C.H. 2008. Taxonomic revision of the New Zealand copper skink (Cyclodina aenea: Squamata: Scincidae) species complex, with descriptions of two new species. Journal of Herpetology 42(3): 437–452. DOI: 10.1670/07-110.1 Reference page. 
• Chapple, D.G., Daugherty, C.H. & Ritchie, P.A. 2008. Comparative phylogeography reveals pre-decline population structure of New Zealand Cyclodina (Reptilia: Scincidae) species. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 95(2): 388–408. DOI: 10.1111/j.1095-8312.2008.01062.x Reference page. 
• Chapple, D.G.; Ritchie, P.A. & Daugherty, C.H. 2009: Origin, diversification, and systematics of the New Zealand skink fauna (Reptilia: Scincidae). Molecular phylogenetics and evolution, 52(2): 470–487. DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2009.03.021 Reference page. 
• Patterson, G.B. & Bell, T.P. 2009. The Barrier skink Oligosoma judgei n. sp. (Reptilia: Scincidae) from the Darran and Takitimu Mountains, South Island, New Zealand. Zootaxa 2271: 43–56. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2271.1.4 . Reference page. 
• 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. 
• Lee, M.S.Y., Hutchinson, M.N., Worthy, T.H., Archer, M., Tennyson, A.J.D., Worthy, J.P. & Scofield, R.P. 2009. Miocene skinks and geckos reveal long-term conservatism of New Zealand's lizard fauna. Biology letters 5(6): 833–837. DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2009.0440
• Melzer, S., Bell, T.P. & Patterson, G.B. 2017. Hidden conservation vulnerability within a cryptic species complex: taxonomic revision of the spotted skink (Oligosoma lineoocellatum; Reptilia: Scincidae) from New Zealand. Zootaxa 4300(3): 355–379. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4300.3.2. Reference page. 
• Melzer, S., Bell, T.P. & Patterson, G.B. 2017. SABINE MELZER, TRENT BELL & GEOFF B. PATTERSON (2017) Hidden conservation vulnerability within a cryptic species complex: taxonomic revision of the spotted skink (Oligosoma lineoocellatum; Reptilia: Scincidae) from New Zealand. Zootaxa, 4300: 355–379. Zootaxa 4350(3): 600–600. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4350.3.14. Full article (PDF) Reference page. 
• Whitaker, T., Chapple, D.G., Hitchmough, R.A., Lettink, M. & Patterson, G.B. 2018. A new species of scincid lizard in the genus Oligosoma (Reptilia: Scincidae) from the mid-Canterbury high country, New Zealand. Zootaxa 4377(2): 269–279. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4377.2.7 Reference page. 
• Melzer, S., Hitchmough, R.A., Bell, T., Chapple, D.G. & Patterson, G.B. 2019. Lost and Found: Taxonomic revision of the speckled skink (Oligosoma infrapunctatum; Reptilia; Scincidae) species complex from New Zealand reveals a potential cryptic extinction, resurrection of two species, and description of three new species. Zootaxa 4623(3): 441–484. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4623.3.2 Reference page. 
• Barr, B.P., Chapple, D.G., Hitchmough, R.A., Patterson, G.B. & Ngātiwai Trust Board 2021. A new species of Oligosoma (Squamata: Scincidae) from the northern North Island, New Zealand. Zootaxa 5047(4): 401–415. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5047.4.1 Reference page. 
• Knox, C., Patterson, G.B. & Chapple, D.G. 2023. Oligosoma aureocola sp. nov. (Reptilia: Scincidae) from the northern Southland high country of Aotearoa/New Zealand. Zootaxa 5285(2): 271–292. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5285.2.3 Reference page. 
• Knox, C., Chapple, D.G. & Bell, T. 2024. Oligosoma eludens sp. nov. (Reptilia: Scincidae) from the Hawkdun, Ida, and Saint Bathans Ranges of North Otago, Aotearoa/New Zealand. Zootaxa 5437(4): 480–494. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5437.4.2 Reference page. 

Links

• Uetz, P. & Hallermann, J. 2024. Oligosoma . The Reptile Database. Accessed on 11 November 2023.

Vernacular names

English: New Zealand Lesser Skinks

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