Marbled skink

Marbled skink
Scientific classification
Kingdom:Animalia
Phylum:Chordata
Class:Reptilia
Order:Squamata
Family:Scincidae
Genus:Cyclodina
Species: C. oliveri
Binomial name
Cyclodina oliveri
(McCann, 1955)
Synonyms[1]
  • Leiolopisma oliveri
    McCann, 1955
  • Cyclodina oliveri
    — Hardy, 1977
  • Oligosoma oliveri
    — Patterson & T.P. Bell, 2009

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

  1. ↑ "Oligosoma oliveri ". The Reptile Database. www.reptile-database.org.
  2. ↑ 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.
  3. ↑ 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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