Oligosoma moco (DUMÉRIL & BIBRON, 1839)

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Higher Taxa	Scincidae, Eugongylinae (Eugongylini), Scincoidea, Sauria, Squamata (lizards)
Subspecies
Common Names
Synonym	Lygosoma moco DUMÉRIL & BIBRON 1839: 718 Mocoa owenii GRAY 1845: 272 Lygosoma moco — BOULENGER 1887: 272 Lygosoma (Leiolopisma) moco — SMITH 1937: 223 Leiolopisma moco — MCCANN 1955 Leiolopisma moco — GREER 1974: 16 Leiolopisma moco — HENLE 1981 Leiolopisma moco — MACREDIE 1984 Lygosomella moco — WELLS & WELLINGTON 1985 Oligosoma moco — PATTERSON & DAUGHERTY 1995 Oligosoma moco — HICKSON et al. 2000 Oligosoma moco —HITCHMOUGH et al. 2016
Distribution	New Zealand, North Island (Hauraki Gulf) Type locality: Whenuakura Island, off Whangamata.
Reproduction	ovoviviparous
Types	Neotype: NMNZ R1798. Syntypes: ZSL (lost).
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Comment	Synonymy: HARDY 1977 also listed Mocoa zelandica GRAY under the synonymy of O. moco.
Etymology	From the Maori term moko (also common in other Polynesian languages) meaning lizard.
References	Boulenger, G. A. 1887. Catalogue of the lizards in the British Museum (Nat. Hist.) III. Lacertidae, Gerrhosauridae, Scincidae, Anelytropsidae, Dibamidae, Chamaeleontidae. London: 575 pp. - get paper here Duméril, A. M. C. and G. Bibron. 1839. Erpétologie Générale on Histoire Naturelle Complète des Reptiles. Vol. 5. Roret/Fain et Thunot, Paris, 871 pp. - get paper here 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 Hardy, G. 1977. The New Zealand Scincidae: a taxonomic study. New Zealand Journal of Zoology 4: 221-325 - get paper here Hare, Kelly M.; Charles H. Daugherty and David G. Chapple 2008. Comparative phylogeography of three skink species (Oligosoma moco, O. smithi, O. suteri; Reptilia: Scincidae) in northeastern New Zealand. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 46 (1): 303-315 - get paper here Henle, K. 1981. Die Herpetofauna Neuseelands, Teil 3: Einheimische Skinke. Herpetofauna 3 (14): 14-18 - get paper here HICKSON, Robert E.; KERRYN E. SLACK AND PETER LOCKHART 2000. Phylogeny recapitulates geography, or why New Zealand has so many species of skinks. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 70: 415–433 - 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 Macredie, Grant 1984. The lizard fauna of Castle Rock, Coromandel, New Zealand. Herpetofauna (Sydney) 15 (1-2): 37-40 Patterson, G.B.; Daugherty, C.H. 1995. Reinstatement of the genus Oligosoma (Reptilia: Lacertilia: Scincidae). J. Royal Soc. New Zealand 25 (3): 327-331 - 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 STEPHENSON, BRENT 2012. Moko skinks (Oligosoma moco) feeding from flowers of the coastal ngaio (Myoporum laetum). BioGecko (1): 45 - 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.
External links	IUCN Red List National Center for Biotechnology Information http://www.ryanphotographic.com/scincidae.htm#moco Google images

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