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Oligosoma homalonotum (chevron skink)

Synonyms: Leiolopisma gracilicorpus; Lygosoma homalonotum; Oligosoma gracilicorpus

Wikipedia Abstract

Oligosoma gracilicorpus, the narrow-bodied skink or narrow skink, is a species of skink in the family Scincidae. Only the holotype specimen (AIM Rep 31.1) is known, collected before 1955 on the North Island of New Zealand, probably in the vicinity of the Hokianga; it is possibly a juvenile. If so, this species could be the kawekaweau or kaweau (sometimes written koeau) of Māori lore, which by others is identified with a tuatara though its description does not match the tuatara well.(Hardy 1977)
View Wikipedia Record: Oligosoma homalonotum

Endangered Species

Status: Endangered
View IUCN Record: Oligosoma homalonotum

Attributes

Habitat Substrate [1]  Arboreal, Terrestrial
Reproductive Mode [1]  Viviparous

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
1Meiri, Shai (2019), Data from: Traits of lizards of the world: variation around a successful evolutionary design, Dryad, Dataset, https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.f6t39kj
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Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0