Narrow-Bodied Skink

Narrow-Bodied Skink
Narrow-bodied skink
Conservation status
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia (paraphyletic)
(unranked): Sauria
Order: Squamata (paraphyletic)
Infraorder: Scincomorpha
Family: Scincidae
Subfamily: Lygosominae
Genus: Oligosoma
Species: O. gracilicorpus
Binomial name
Oligosoma gracilicorpus
(Hardy, 1977)
Synonyms

Leiolopisma gracilicorpus Hardy, 1977

The narrow-bodied skink, Oligosoma gracilicorpus, 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 that animal well.(Hardy 1977)

Classified as "data deficient" by the IUCN (ARAG 1996), the New Zealand Department of Conservation treats it as extinct.

References

  • Australasian Reptile & Amphibian Specialist Group (1996). Oligosoma gracilicorpus. 2006. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCN 2006. www.iucnredlist.org. Retrieved on 10 Jul 2007.
  • Hardy, Graham S. (1977): The New Zealand Scincidae (Reptilia: Lacertilia); a taxonomic and zoogeographic study. New Zealand Journal of Zoology 4: 221-325. PDF fulltext

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