Tonga Ground Skink

Tonga Ground Skink

Taxobox
name = Tonga Ground Skink
status = EX | status_system = IUCN2.3
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Reptilia
ordo = Squamata
familia = Scincidae
genus = "Tachygia"
species = "T. microlepis"
binomial = "Tachygia microlepis"
binomial_authority = (Duméril & Bibron, 1839)
synonyms = The Tonga Ground Skink ("Tachygia microlepis") is an extinct species of skink in the Scincidae family.It was found only in Tonga.

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* World Conservation Monitoring Centre 1996. [http://www.iucnredlist.org/search/details.php/21286/all Tachygia microlepis] . [http://www.iucnredlist.org 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. ] Downloaded on 20 July 2007.


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