Marbled skink
| Marbled skink | |
|---|---|
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Subphylum: | Vertebrata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Order: | Squamata |
| Suborder: | Sauria |
| Infraorder: | Scincomorpha |
| Family: | Scincidae |
| Subfamily: | Eugongylinae |
| Genus: | Cyclodina |
| Species: | C. oliveri |
| Binomial name | |
| Cyclodina oliveri (McCann, 1955) | |
| Synonyms[1] | |
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The marbled skink, Cyclodina oliveri, is a species of skink in the family Scincidae. The species is endemic to New Zealand.[2]
Etymology
The specific name, oliveri, is in honor of New Zealand ornithologist Walter Oliver.[3]
References
- ↑ "Oligosoma oliveri ". The Reptile Database. www.reptile-database.org.
- ↑ Chapple DG (2010). Oligosoma oliveri. The IUCN (International Union for the Conservation of Nature) Red List of Threatened Species 2010. Downloaded on 08 June 2016.
- ↑ Beolens B, Watkins M, Grayson M (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
- McCann C (1955). "The Lizards of New Zealand. Gekkonidae and Scincidae". Dominion Mus. Bull. (17): 1-127. (Leiolopisma oliveri, new species, pp. 76–77, 79, 94 + Plate XIII, figures 1-5).
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