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Oligosoma hardyi (CHAPPLE, PATTERSON, BELL & DAUGHERTY, 2008)

IUCN Red List - Oligosoma hardyi - Vulnerable, VU
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Higher TaxaScincidae, Eugongylinae (Eugongylini), Scincoidea, Sauria, Squamata (lizards)
Subspecies 
Common NamesE: Hardy’s Skink 
SynonymCyclodina hardyi CHAPPLE, PATTERSON, BELL & DAUGHERTY 2008
Cyclodina aenea GIRARD 1857: 196 (part)
Cyclodina aenea — HARDY 1977 (part)
Oligosoma hardyi — CHAPPLE et al. 2009 
DistributionNew Zealand (Poor Knights Islands)

Type locality: Poor Knights Islands (35°319 S, 174°449 E).  
Reproductionovoviviparous 
TypesHolotype: NMNZ RE4903 (S1266) (collected by J. C. Smuts-Kennedy, November 1973). Adult male. 
DiagnosisDiagnosis: Cyclodina hardyi can be distin- guished from all other Cyclodina species, in- cluding the other members of the C. aenea species complex, by having suboculars three and four separated by the fifth supralabial under the eye (Fig. 3 in CHAPPLE et al. 2008). In addition, the midbody scale count is greater than that of the new species from the Te Paki region. 
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References
  • Beolens, Bo; Michael Watkins, and Michael Grayson 2011. The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, USA - get paper here
  • Chapple, D.G.; Patterson, G.B.; Bell, T.; Daugherty, C.H. 2008. Taxonomic Revision of the New Zealand Copper Skink (Cyclodina aenea: Squamata: Scincidae) Species Complex, with Descriptions of Two New Species. Journal of Herpetology 42 (3): 437–452 - get paper here
  • Chapple, David G.; Peter A. Ritchie, Charles H. Daugherty 2009. Origin, diversification, and systematics of the New Zealand skink fauna (Reptilia: Scincidae). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 52 (2): 470-487 - get paper here
  • Hitchmough, Rodney A.; Geoffrey B. Patterson, and David G. Chapple 2016. Putting a Name to Diversity: Taxonomy of the New Zealand Lizard Fauna. in: Chapple, D.G. (ed). New Zealand Lizards. Springer, pp. 87-108 - get paper here
  • Winkel, D. van, Baling, M. & Hitchmough, R. 2018. Reptiles and Amphibians of New Zealand: A field guide. Auckland University Press, Auckland, 376 pp.
 
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