Oligosoma lichenigerum (O'SHAUGHNESSY, 1874)

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Higher Taxa	Scincidae, Eugongylinae (Eugongylini), Scincoidea, Sauria, Squamata (lizards)
Subspecies
Common Names	E: Lord Howe and Norfolk Islands Skink
Synonym	Mocoa lichenigera O’SHAUGHNESSY 1874: 298 Leiolopisma cuprea — LOVERIDGE 1934 Lygosoma (Leiolopisma) lichenigerum — SMITH 1937: 224 Leiolopisma lichenigerum — GREER 1974: 16 Pseudemoia lichenigera — COGGER 1994 Leiolopisma lichenigerum — COGGER 1983: 169 Leiolopisma lichengera [sic] — BAUER 1989: 44 Cyclodina lichenigera — COGGER 2000: 753 Oligosoma lichenigera — CHAPPLE et al. 2009 Oligosoma lichenigerum — HITCHMOUGH et al. 2016
Distribution	Australia (Lord Howe Island, Norfolk Islands; New South Wales [fide SMITH 1937]) Type locality: Lord Howe Island.
Reproduction	oviparous
Types	Holotype: BMNH 1946.8.16.27
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Comment
Etymology	Presumably named after the Greek leichen (lichen) plus the Latin suffix -iger (bearing), referring to the mottled dorsal pattern. (G. Shea, pers. comm., 9 Feb 2024)
References	Bauer, A. M. 1989. Reptiles and the biogeographic interpretation of New Caledonia. Tuatara 30: 39-50 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 Cogger, H. G. 1971. The reptiles of Lord Howe Island. Proc. Linn. Soc. New South Wales 96: 23-38 - get paper here Cogger, H. G. 2014. Reptiles and Amphibians of Australia, 7th ed. CSIRO Publishing, xxx + 1033 pp. - get paper here Cogger, H.G. 2000. Reptiles and Amphibians of Australia, 6th ed. Ralph Curtis Publishing, Sanibel Island, 808 pp. Cogger,H.G. 1994. Reptiles and Amphibians of Australia, 5th ed. Reed Books/Cornell University Press, 788 pp. Couper, P., Covacevich, J., Amey, A. & Baker, A. 2006. The genera of skinks (Family Scincidae) of Australia and its island territories: diversity, distribution and identification. in: Merrick, J.R., Archer, M., Hickey, G.M. & Lee, M.S.Y. (eds.). Evolution and Zoogeography of Australasian Vertebrates. Australian Scientific Publishing, Sydney, pp. 367-384 Greer, A.E. 1974. The generic relationships of the scincid lizard genus Leiolopisma and its relatives. Australian Journal of Zoology 31: 1-67. - 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 Loveridge, A. 1934. Australian reptiles in the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Cambridge, Massachusetts. Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool. Harvard 77: 243-383 - get paper here O’Shaughnessy,A.W.E. 1874. A description of a new species of Scincidae in the collection of the British Museum. Ann. Mag. nat. Hist. (4) 13: 298-301 - get paper here Smith, M.A. 1937. A review of the genus Lygosoma (Scincidae: Reptilia) and its allies. Records of the Indian Museum 39 (3): 213-234 Stewart, J. R., Hare, K. M., & Thompson, M. B. 2024. Evolution of Placentation in Eugongylini (Squamata: Scincidae): Ontogeny of Extraembryonic Membranes in Oviparous and Viviparous Species of New Zealand. Journal of morphology, 285(11), e70001 - get paper here Swan, G.; Sadlier, R.; Shea, G. 2017. A field guide to reptiles of New South Wales. Reed New Holland, 328 pp. Wilson, S. & Swan, G. 2010. A complete guide to reptiles of Australia, 3rd ed. Chatswood: New Holland, 558 pp.
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