Oligosoma

Oligosoma
Otago skink, Oligosoma otagense
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Reptilia
Order:	Squamata
Family:	Scincidae
Subfamily:	Eugongylinae
Genus:	Oligosoma Girard, 1857
Species
Over 50, see text.

Oligosoma is a

The currently described species[2] are:

• Oligosoma acrinasum (Hardy
  , 1977) – Fiordland skink
• Oligosoma aeneum (Girard
  , 1858) – copper skink
• Oligosoma alani (Robb
  , 1970) – Alan's skink, robust skink
• Oligosoma albornense Melzer, Hitchmough, Bell, Chapple, & Patterson, 2019 – Alborn skink
• Oligosoma aureocola Knox, Patterson, & Chapple, 2023
• Oligosoma auroraense Melzer, Hitchmough, Bell, Chapple, & Patterson, 2019 – Hawke's Bay skink, eastern speckled skink
• Oligosoma awakopaka Jewell, 2017 – Awakopaka skink
• Oligosoma burganae Chapple
  et al., 2011 – Burgan skink
• Oligosoma chloronoton
  (Hardy, 1977) – green skink
• Oligosoma elium Melzer, Bell & Patterson, 2017 – Marlborough spotted skink
• Oligosoma fallai (McCann
  , 1955) – Falla's skink, Three Kings skink
• Oligosoma grande (Gray
  , 1845) – grand skink
• Oligosoma hardyi (Chapple, Patterson, Bell, & Daugherty
  , 2008) – Hardy's skink
• Oligosoma homalonotum (Boulenger, 1906) – chevron skink
• Oligosoma hoparatea Whitaker, Chapple, Hitchmough, Lettink
  , & Patterson, 2018 – Pukuma skink, white-bellied skink
• Oligosoma inconspicuum
  (Patterson & Daugherty, 1990) – cryptic skink
• Oligosoma infrapunctatum (Boulenger, 1887) – cobble skink, speckled skink
• Oligosoma judgei
  Patterson & Bell, 2009 – barrier skink
• Oligosoma kahurangi Patterson & Hitchmough, 2021
• Oligosoma kakerakau Barr, Chapple, Hitchmough, Patterson, & Ngatiwai Trust Board, 2021
• Oligosoma kokowai Melzer, Bell, & Patterson, 2017 – northern spotted skink
• Oligosoma levidensum
  (Chapple, Patterson, Bell, & Daugherty, 2008) – slight skink
• Oligosoma lichenigerum (O’Shaughnessy
  , 1874) – Lord Howe and Norfolk Islands skink
• Oligosoma lineoocellatum (A.H.A. Duméril
  , 1851) – Canterbury spotted skink
• Oligosoma longipes
  Patterson, 1997 – long-toed skink
• Oligosoma maccanni
  (Hardy, 1977) – McCann's skink
• Oligosoma macgregori
  (Robb, 1975) – MacGregor's skink
• Oligosoma microlepis
  (Patterson & Daugherty, 1990) – small-scaled skink
• Oligosoma moco (A.M.C. Duméril & Bibron
  , 1839) – Moko skink
• Oligosoma newmani (Wells & Wellington, 1985) – Newman's speckled skink
• Oligosoma nigriplantare (W. Peters, 1874) – Chatham Islands skink
• Worthy
  , 1991) – Northland skink(extinct)
• Oligosoma notosaurus (Patterson & Daugherty, 1990) – southern skink
• Oligosoma oliveri
  (McCann, 1955) – marbled skink, Oliver's New Zealand skink
• Oligosoma ornatum (Gray, 1843) – Gray's ornate skink
• Oligosoma otagense
  (McCann, 1955) – Otago skink
• Oligosoma pachysomaticum (Robb, 1975) – Coromandel skink
• Oligosoma pikitanga
  Bell & Patterson, 2008 – Sinbad skink
• Oligosoma polychroma Patterson & Daugherty, 1990 – common New Zealand skink, southern grass skink
• Oligosoma prasinum Melzer, Bell, & Patterson, 2017 – Mackenzie skink
• Oligosoma repens Chapple, Bell, S. Chapple, Miller
  , Daugherty, & Patterson, 2011 – Eyres skink
• Oligosoma robinsoni
  (Wells & Wellington, 1985) - crenulate skink, Hokitika skink, cobble skink
• Oligosoma roimata Patterson, Hitchmough, & Chapple, 2013 – Aorangi skink
• Oligosoma salmo Melzer, Hitchmough, Bell, Chapple, & Patterson, 2019 – Chesterfield skink
• Oligosoma smithi (Gray, 1845) – shore skink
• Oligosoma stenotis
  (Patterson & Daugherty, 1994) – small-eared skink
• Oligosoma striatum (Buller
  , 1871) – striped skink
• Oligosoma suteri (Boulenger, 1906) – egg-laying skink, Suter's skink
• Oligosoma taumakae Chapple & Patterson, 2007 – Open Bay Islands skink, Taumaka skink
• Oligosoma tekakahu
  Chapple, Bell, S. Chapple, Miller, Daugherty, & Patterson, 2011 – Te Kakahu skink
• Oligosoma toka
  Chapple, Bell, S. Chapple, Miller, Daugherty, & Patterson, 2011 – Nevis skink
• Oligosoma townsi (Chapple, Patterson, Gleeson, Daugherty, & Ritchie
  , 2008) - Mokohinau skink
• Oligosoma waimatense
  (McCann, 1955) – scree skink
• Oligosoma whitakeri (Hardy, 1977) – Whitaker's
  New Zealand skink
• Oligosoma zelandicum
  (Gray, 1843) – brown skink

Further reading

• 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". Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia 9: 195–199. (Oligosoma, new genus, p. 196).
• Jewell, T. (2011) A Photographic Guide to Reptiles and Amphibians of New Zealand. Auckland: New Holland (revised edition).

External links

Wikispecies has information related to Oligosoma.

• North Island Oligosoma spp. skink recovery plan 2002–2012
• Conservation status of New Zealand reptiles, 2021