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Oligosoma zelandicum (Brown Skink)

Synonyms: Leiolopisma zelandica; Lygosoma zelandica; Mocoa zelandica; Tiliqua zelandica

Wikipedia Abstract

The brown skink, Oligosoma zelandicum, is a species of skink native to New Zealand.
View Wikipedia Record: Oligosoma zelandicum

Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  5.1 grams
Habitat Substrate [2]  Terrestrial
Litter Size [3]  3
Reproductive Mode [2]  Viviparous
Snout to Vent Length [3]  2.362 inches (6 cm)

Ecoregions

Name Countries Ecozone Biome Species Report Climate Land
Use
Nelson Coast temperate forests New Zealand Australasia Temperate Broadleaf and Mixed Forests
North Island temperate forests New Zealand Australasia Temperate Broadleaf and Mixed Forests
Richmond temperate forests New Zealand Australasia Temperate Broadleaf and Mixed Forests

Biodiversity Hotspots

Name Location Endemic Species Website
New Zealand New Zealand Yes

Range Map

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Length–weight allometries in lizards, S. Meiri, Journal of Zoology 281 (2010) 218–226
♦ 2Meiri, 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
♦ 3Nathan P. Myhrvold, Elita Baldridge, Benjamin Chan, Dhileep Sivam, Daniel L. Freeman, and S. K. Morgan Ernest. 2015. An amniote life-history database to perform comparative analyses with birds, mammals, and reptiles. Ecology 96:3109
Ecoregions provided by World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF). WildFinder: Online database of species distributions, ver. 01.06 Wildfinder Database
Biodiversity Hotspots provided by Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund
Abstract provided by DBpedia licensed under a Creative Commons License
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