Marbled skink

Marbled skink
Conservation status
	; Near Threatened (IUCN 3.1)
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Reptilia
Order:	Squamata
Family:	Scincidae
Genus:	Oligosoma
Species:	O. oliveri
Binomial name
	Oligosoma oliveri; (McCann, 1955)
Synonyms
	Leiolopisma oliveri ; McCann, 1955; Leiolopisma pachystomaticum ; Robb, 1975; Cyclodina oliveri ; — Hardy, 1977; Oligosoma oliveri ; — Patterson & T.P. Bell, 2009;

The marbled skink (Oligosoma oliveri) is a species of skink in the family Scincidae. The species is endemic to New Zealand.

Etymology

The specific name, oliveri, is in honor of New Zealand ornithologist Walter Oliver.^[3]

O. oliveri is viviparous.^[2]

^ 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).

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).

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