Oligosoma fallai (MCCANN, 1955)

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Higher Taxa	Scincidae, Eugongylinae (Eugongylini), Scincoidea, Sauria, Squamata (lizards)
Subspecies
Common Names
Synonym	Leiolopisma fallai MCCANN 1955 Leiolopisma fallai — GREER 1974: 16 Lygosomella fallai — WELLS & WELLINGTON 1985 Oligosoma fallai — PATTERSON & DAUGHERTY 1995 Oligosoma fallai — HICKSON et al. 2000 Oligosoma fallai — HITCHMOUGH et al. 2016
Distribution	Three Kings Island (off New Zealand) Type locality: Great Island, Three Kings group.
Reproduction	ovovivparous
Types	Syntypes: NMNZ R151-152
Diagnosis
Comment	Rare, threatened, or endangered species.
Etymology	Named after Robert Alexander Falla, Oliver’s successor as director of the Dominion Museum, and occupying this role while McCann was there. See Shea 2016: 46 for biographical details.
References	BELL, TRENT & AYLA WILES 2015. Describing lizard and frog distribution and species assemblages using the Ecological Districts framework. BioGecko (3): 19-35 Beolens, Bo; Michael Watkins, and Michael Grayson 2011. The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, USA - get paper here Cree, Alison and Kelly M. Hare 2016. Reproduction and Life History of New Zealand Lizards. in: Chapple, D.G. (ed). New Zealand Lizards. Springer, pp. 169-206 - 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 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 McCann, C. 1955. The lizards of New Zealand. Gekkonidae and Scincidae. Dominion Museum Bulletin (17): 1—127. 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 Shea, Glenn M. 2016. History of Discovery of the New Zealand Lizard Fauna. in: Chapple, D.G. (ed). New Zealand Lizards. Springer, pp. 13-64 - get paper here Wahle, A., Rödder, D., Chapple, D. G., Meiri, S., Rauhaus, A., & Ziegler, T. 2021. Skinks in Zoos: A global approach on distribution patterns of threatened Scincidae in zoological institutions. Global Ecology and Conservation, e01800 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 https://www.samuelpurdiewildlife.com/New-Zealand-Reptiles-Amphibians… http://www.ryanphotographic.com/scincidae.htm#fallai Google images

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