Oligosoma

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Scincomorpha
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Familia: Scincidae
Genus: Oligosoma
Species (42): O. acrinasum – O. aeneum – O. alani – O. burganae – O. chloronoton – O. fallai – O. gracilicorpus – O. grande – O. hardyi – O. homalonotum – O. inconspicuum – O. infrapunctatum – O. judgei – O. levidensa – O. lichenigerum – O. lineoocellatum – O. longipes – O. maccanni – O. macgregori – O. microlepis – O. moco – O. nigriplantare – O. notosaurus – O. oliveri – O. ornatum – O. otagense – O. pikitanga – O. repens – O. smithi – O. stenotis – O. striatum – O. suteri – O. taumakae – O. tekakahu – O. toka – O. townsi – O. waimatense – O. whitakeri – O. zelandicum – †O. northlandi – ?O. newmani – ?O. robinsoni

Name

• Oligosoma Girard, 1857
  • Type species: Tiliqua zelandica Gray, 1843
    • Fixation: original designation [p. 196]
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Synonyms

• Cyclodina Girard, 1857
  • Identifiers: ZooBank
  • Type species: Cyclodina aenea Girard, 1857
    • Fixation: monotypy
  • Authority for synonymy: Chapple, Ritchie & Daugherty, 2009
• Hombronia Girard, 1857
  • Identifiers: ZooBank
  • Type species: Hombronia fasciolaris Girard, 1857
    • Fixation: subsequent designation by ?
• Lygosomella Girard, 1857
  • Identifiers: ZooBank
  • Type species: Lygosomella aestuosa Girard, 1857 (= O. smithi)
    • Fixation: monotypy
• Vaderscincus Wells & Wellington, 1984: 104. Type species: Mocoa lichenigera O’Shaughnessy, 1874, by original designation.
• Girardiscincus Wells & Wellington, 1985. Type species: Leiolopisma grande otagense McCann 1955 (= O. otagense), by original designation.
• Robbisaurus Wells & Wellington, 1985. Type species: Lygosoma suteri Boulenger, 1906 (= O. suteri), by original designation.

References

• Bell, T.P.; Patterson, G.B. 2008: A rare alpine skink Oligosoma pikitanga n. sp. (Reptilia: Scincidae) from Llawrenny Peaks, Fiordland, New Zealand. Zootaxa, 1882: 57-68. Abstract & excerpt ZooBank
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• Chapple, D.G.; Bell, T.P.; Chapple, S.N.J.; Daugherty, C.H.; Patterson, G.B. 2011: Phylogeography and taxonomic revision of the New Zealand cryptic skink (Oligosoma inconspicuum; Reptilia: Scincidae) species complex. Zootaxa, 2782: 1–33. Preview ZooBank
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• Chapple, D.G.; Patterson, G.B. 2007: A new skink species (Oligosoma taumakae sp. nov.; Reptilia: Scincidae) from the Open Bay Islands, New Zealand. New Zealand journal of zoology, 34(4): 347-357. doi: 10.1080/03014220709510094 PDF ZooBank
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• 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 PDF ZooBank
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• Chapple, D.G.; Patterson, G.B.; Gleeson, D.M.; Daugherty, C.H.; Ritchie, P.A. 2008: Taxonomic revision of the marbled skink (Cyclodina oliveri, Reptilia: Scincidae) species complex, with a description of a new species. New Zealand journal of zoology, 35(2): 129-146. doi: 10.1080/03014220809510110 ZooBank
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• 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 PDF PDF

• Girard, C. 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, 1857: 195-199. BHL ZooBank
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• 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 Google books ZooBank
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• 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
• 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

• 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 ZooBank
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• 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. Abstract & excerpt ZooBank
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• 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. Google books ZooBank
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• 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 ZooBank
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• 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
• 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
• Towns, D.R. 1974: Zoogeography and the New Zealand Scincidae. Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand, 4(2): 217-226. Google books
• Wells, R.W.; Wellington, C.R. 1984: A synopsis of the class Reptilia in Australia. Australian journal of herpetology, 1: 73-129. PDF
• 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.

• 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. Google books ZooBank
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